Scholar
Ziping Xu
Google Scholar ID: V-VcaYIAAAAJ
Postdoc Fellow at Harvard University
Citations & Impact
Citations
740
H-index
11
i10-index
13
Publications
20
Co-authors
6
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Paper “Statistical Inference for Misspecified Contextual Bandits” with Yongyi Guo on arXiv (May 2025)
- - Our paper on non-stationary bandit was accepted at RLC 2025 (May 2025)
- - Talk at NESS 2025 on DAG-informed Reward Construction using Mediators (April 2025)
- - Talk for mDOT Webinar Series on Reinforcement Learning for Digital Interventions in the Social Dyadic Setting (April 2025)
Research Experience
- - Assistant Professor, School of Data Science and Society, UNC Chapel Hill (starting July 2025)
- - Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (2023-2025)
- - Involved in the ADAPTS-HCT clinical trial, leading the RL algorithm design for adaptive delivery of digital interventions to improve medication adherence among adolescents and young adults who have undergone bone marrow transplantation
Education
- - Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Michigan, Advisor: Ambuj Tewari
- - B.S. in Data Science, Peking University, Advisor: Song Xi Chen
- - Postdoctoral Fellow in Statistics, Harvard University, Advisor: Susan Murphy (2023-2025)
Background
- Research interests: Exploring new frontiers of data-driven decision-making approaches (e.g., Reinforcement Learning) with applications in the digital intervention domain, e.g., mobile health. Brief introduction: Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science and Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Miscellany
- Actively looking for motivated Ph.D., Master, and Undergraduate students to join his research group
