With family in Portugal 2023

Hi, I’m Kevin Zhao. This is where I dump everything I find interesting, worth sharing, or confusing at first. I love solving interesting probability, statistics, and machine learning puzzles.

Now

• PhD Student in the @MAGICS lab at Northwestern, advised by Zhaoran Wang and Han Liu
• Quantitative Researcher @Millennium in the Riedel Group. One of Millennium’s most successful teams of all time. 25+ years. No down years

Previously

• Quantitative Researcher @Vatic Labs on the high frequency trading desk
• Stats & CS @Harvard, advised by Natesh Pillai

Writing

Some of my selected blog posts:

• Intro to weather modeling
• Representations of memory
• Thin shell phenomena for n-balls
• Matching Socks

Interests

I’m especially interested in AI4Science. Specifically, the methods and tools that make AI genuinely useful for science. Reach me at khzhao [at] u [dot] northwestern [dot] edu. Happy to chat!

One of my favorite quotes, especially now as I navigate this new and upcoming world due to AI:

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. — John Tukey