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About me

Hello! I am a 4th-year Electrical and Systems Engineering PhD student in the GRASP lab at the University of Pennsylvania. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Nikolai Matni. Previously, I graduated with BSc degrees in Mathematics and in Statistics & Data Science from Yale University. I then spent a year as a researcher in the Kluger Lab at Yale University's Applied Mathematics Program. During the summer of 2023, I interned at Microsoft NYC.

I am interested in:

I'm visiting Stephen Tu and Lars Lindemann at the University of Southern California for the rest of spring semester! Feel free to reach out if you're in the area.

Email: ttz2 AT seas DOT upenn DOT edu.


Research [Google Scholar]

  1. Sample-Efficient Linear Representation Learning from Non-IID Non-Isotropic Data, to appear at ICLR 2024 (Spotlight presentation!). [OpenReview]
  2. Performance-Robustness Tradeoffs in Adversarially Robust Control and Estimation, in submission. [arxiv]
  3. Multi-Task Imitation Learning for Linear Dynamical Systems, L4DC 2023. [arxiv]
  4. TaSIL: Taylor Series Imitation Learning, NeurIPS 2022. [arxiv]
  5. Performance-Robustness Tradeoffs in Adversarially Robust Linear-Quadratic Control, CDC 2022. [arxiv]
  6. Adversarially Robust Stability Certificates can be Sample-Efficient, L4DC 2022. [arxiv]
  7. Adversarial Tradeoffs in Robust State Estimation, ACC 2023. [arxiv]
  8. Biwhitening Reveals the Rank of a Count Matrix, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science. [arxiv]
  9. Sparse Optimization on General Atomic Sets: Greedy and Forward-Backward Algorithms, pre-print. [arxiv]
  10. On the Continuous Fermat-Weber Problem for a Convex Polygon using Euclidean Distance. [arxiv]

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