Ziheng Wei

Welcome to my homepage! I am Ziheng Wei (魏子恒), an incoming Statistics PhD student at UC Santa Barbara. My first name is pronounced / Zee-hung /. Feel free to call me by my English name Everett. This site is where I share my research, background, and a few things beyond academia. Thanks for stopping by!

About Me

I am an incoming Statistics PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), jointly mentored by Annie Qu and Xiaowu Dai. Previously, I got a Master’s degree in Applied Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I completed my undergraduate study at Wuhan University, majoring in Statistics. I grew up in Shenyang, a beautiful city in northeastern China, where I spent the first eighteen years of my life.

I am broadly interested in Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models.

Feel free to reach out, whether it is about research, shared interests, or simply to say hello. You can find me at z_wei [at] ucsb [dot] edu (institutional) or zihengwei242 [at] gmail [dot] com (permanent).

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