CV

A concise academic CV with appointments, education, awards, and selected publications.

Contact Information

Name Yicheng Li
Professional Title Zijiang Young Scholar (Top Young Talent)
Email ycli@sfs.ecnu.edu.cn
Location Shanghai,
Website https://ezrnest.github.io

Professional Summary

I am a Zijiang Young Scholar (Top Young Talent) in the School of Statistics at East China Normal University. My research interests are deep learning theory and statistical learning theory, with a focus on feature learning, neural tangent kernels, kernel methods, and differential privacy.

Academic Appointments

  • 2026.7 - Present

    Shanghai, China

    Zijiang Young Scholar (Top Young Talent)
    East China Normal University, School of Statistics

Education

  • 2022 ～ 2026.6

    Beijing, China

    Ph.D.
    Tsinghua University, Department of Statistics and Data Science
    Statistics
  • 2025.6 ～ 2025.12

    Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Visiting Student
    University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Department of Statistics
    • Host: Tony Cai
  • 2018 - 2022

    Beijing, China

    B.Sc.
    Tsinghua University, Department of Mathematical Sciences
    Pure and Applied Mathematics; Minor in Data Science and Technology
    • Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate.

Honors and Awards

  • 2026
    Tsinghua University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
    Tsinghua University
  • 2026
    Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate (Ph.D.)
    Tsinghua University
  • 2026
    Zhong Jiaqing Outstanding Paper Award
    The 27th Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Young Researchers Symposium on Probability and Statistics, Probability and Statistics Branch of the Chinese Mathematical Society

    Awarded for Minimax and Adaptive Covariance Matrix Estimation under Differential Privacy.

  • 2025
    National Scholarship
    Ministry of Education of China
  • 2025
    Outstanding Poster Award, Peking University-Tsinghua University Statistics Forum
    Peking University-Tsinghua University Statistics Forum
  • 2024
    Huiyan Talent Scholarship
    Tsinghua University
  • 2023
    Tsinghua Alumni-Kunhua Talent Scholarship
    Tsinghua University
  • 2023
    Outstanding Poster Award, Peking University-Tsinghua University Statistics Forum
    Peking University-Tsinghua University Statistics Forum
  • 2023
    Excellent Teaching Assistant Scholarship
    Tsinghua University
  • 2022
    Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate
    Tsinghua University
  • 2021
    Tsinghua Alumni-Tang Junyuan Scholarship
    Tsinghua University
  • 2020
    Tsinghua Alumni-Evergrande Scholarship
    Tsinghua University
  • 2019
    First Prize in the Eleventh National Undergraduate Mathematics Contest
    China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • 2019
    National Scholarship
    Ministry of Education of China

Academic Interests

Research: deep learning theory, neural tangent kernels, feature learning, kernel methods, differential privacy

Skills

Programming: Python, R, C++, Java, Kotlin, LaTeX
Languages: Chinese, English

Publications

See the full publication list on the publications page.