CV

Education

Ph.D in Statistics and Data Science, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2018-2023
- Advisor: Zongming Ma
M.Math. in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2017-2018
- Distinction Honor
B.A. in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2014-2017
- Class I in Mathematical Tripos (2015, 2016, 2017)
- Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship

Citadel Securities, Summer 2023, Chicago, US
- Quantitative Research Intern
Baidu Natural Language Processing (NLP), Summer 2021, Shenzhen, China
- Deep Learning Researcher

Sparse GCA and Thresholded Gradient Descent. (2021). [arXiv] [journal] [BibTex] [software] [talk]
- Sheng Gao, Zongming Ma.
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
Multi-modal Analysis of PNC Data via Sparse Generalized Correlation Analysis. (2023) In Submission.
- Sheng Gao, Fengling Hu, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Russell T. Shinohara, Zongming Ma.
DP-HyPO: An Adaptive Private Hyperparameter Optimization Framework. (2023). [arXiv] [conference] [BibTex]
- Hua Wang, Sheng Gao, Huanyu Zhang, Weijie J. Su, Milan Shen.
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Prize Winner of Alibaba Mathematics Competition 2021
Winner of KDD Cup 2021, Large Scale Graph Machine Learning Challenge
CTL Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, University of Pennsylvania, 2021
Donald S. Murray Award for excellence in teaching, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2020
First Place winner in Wellcome Data Re-use Research Competition for Malaria, 2019
Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship, 2014-2018
Braithwaite Prize (award to the College Top 1 in Mathematical Tripos), University of Cambridge, 2017