About me

I am a final year Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington, working with Alex Luedtke and Lalit Jain. Prior to that, I received my B.A. in mathematics and computer science at Macalester College.

My research centers on designing methods for sequential decision-making problems that are both provably optimal and practically effective. For example, I would like to develop algorithms to learn the optimal policy through adaptive data collection. More specifically, I’m working on bandits, policy learning for dependent data as well as designing adaptive algorithms for robust estimation. I’m also interested in applications to healthcare, pricing, online advertising, and others.

Contact me at zli9 [at] uw [dot] edu.

I’m looking for postdoc position for Fall 2024.