About

My name is Z. Sun, a 4th year PhD student at UCL. I am lucky to be supervised by Prof. F-X Briol and Prof. J-H Xue. My research is mainly funded by EPSRC and UCL jointly; and partially by The Alan Turing Institute.

Research Interest

In general, I am very interested in computational statistics and machine learning. I am also very interested in applications of statistics and machine learning.

Academic Activities

• Enrichment student at The Alan Turing Institute 2021-2022.
• Organiser of 2022 Statistics in Data-Centric Engineering (S-DCE) Seminars at The Alan Turing Institute.

Publication

• Sun, Z., Barp, A., Briol, F.-X.(2021). Vector-Valued Control Variates (pre-print).
• Sun, Z., Wu, J., Li, X., Yang, W., Xue, J-H.(2021). Amortized Bayesian Prototype Meta-learning: A new probabilistic meta-learning approach to few-shot image classification. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), PMLR.
• Li, X.*, Wu, J.*, Sun, Z.*, Ma, Z., Cao, J., Xue, J-H.(2020). Bi-Similarity Network for Fine-grained Few-shot Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
• Li, X.*, Sun, Z.*, Xue, J-H., Ma, Z. (2020). A Concise Review of Recent Few-shot Meta-learning Methods. Neurocomputing.

Talk/Presentation

• Talk at topic-contributed sessions of Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2022, USA.
• Talk at SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, April 2022, USA.
• Poster at AI UK 2022, March 2022, UK.
• Poster at Statistics at Bristol: FRY, September 2021, UK.
• Talk at International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (Special Session on Stein’s method), August 2021, German.
• Poster at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, April 2021, USA.
• Talk at Data-Centric Engineering Seminars @ The Alan Turing Institue, March 2021, UK.

Selected Award

• Best Student Paper Award from the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association, 2022.
• Silver Medal for Best poster at the conference Bristol: FRY, 2021.
• The Alan Turing Institute Enrichment Award, 2021.
• EPSRC PhD Scholarship, 2019-2023.
• Cambridge International Scholarship (PhD), 2019-2022.