Ziheng Cheng
Scholar

Ziheng Cheng

Google Scholar ID: M8Hz2NSNe3QC
UC Berkeley
Machine LearningOptimizationStatistics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
86
 
H-index
5
 
i10-index
3
 
Publications
14
 
Co-authors
11
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published papers include 'Bridging Discrete and Continuous RL: Stable Deterministic Policy Gradient with Martingale Characterization' and several preprints and conference papers. Some papers have been accepted to top conferences such as NeurIPS 2025, ICLR 2025, COLT 2024, and ICML 2024.
Research Experience
  • Intern at Microsoft Research Asia; Visited Tengyu Ma at Stanford.
Education
  • PhD in IEOR, UC Berkeley, supervised by Xin Guo; B.S. in School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, supervised by Cheng Zhang.
Background
  • Research interests span broadly in statistics, optimization, and machine learning, including multi-agent RL, language models, diffusion models, distributed optimization, sampling, and variational inference.
Miscellany
  • Served as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2024.