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02 · People
A group built around difficult questions.
We work across mathematical theory, stochastic simulation, numerical computation, and modern machine learning.
Open opportunities
Join SCALE Lab.
I am actively recruiting undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs to join my research group. Interested candidates are encouraged to email yipinglu [at] bicmr.pku.edu.cn.
How to applyCurrent group
Principal investigator and PhD student.
Current advising information follows the latest academic CV.
YZ
PhD Student · Since September 2025
Youheng Zhu
Northwestern University. Research in sequential Monte Carlo, stochastic simulation, inference time scaling, and reasoning theory.
Current advisee
Youheng Zhu research topics.
Each topic links to a representative paper and summarizes the central contribution.
PhD Student
Youheng Zhu
Northwestern University · advised since September 2025
01Offline POMDP LearningUses a belief space covering framework for offline learning and evaluation under partial observability.↗
02LLM Reasoning TheoryShows when approximate reward models make inference time scaling more computationally efficient.↗
03Stochastic Networks and the Signed BAR ConjectureCombines probabilistic structure with AI assisted exploration to resolve a longstanding uniqueness problem.↗
04High Dimensional Probability and Tail FragilityUses large deviations to expose rare severe errors hidden by favorable average risk.↗
Research mentoring
Supervised undergraduate researchers.
Institution, research year, next position, and publication outcome are listed from the current CV.
Wenlong Ji
Stanford Statistics PhD · first author paper at ICLR 2022
Haoxuan Chen
Stanford ICME PhD · first author paper at ICLR 2022
Jikai Jin
Stanford ICME PhD · first author paper at ICLR 2023
Kaizhao Liu
MIT Mathematics PhD · first author paper at ICML 2024
Honam Wong
University of Pennsylvania Computer Science PhD · first author paper submitted
Ruihan Xu
University of Chicago Data Science PhD · first author paper at AISTATS 2025 and another submitted
Zexi Fan
Columbia Applied Mathematics PhD · first author paper at ICLR 2026
Weizhong Wang
Columbia IEOR PhD
Yifang Chen
University of Chicago Data Science PhD
Weizhong Wang
Northwestern IEMS PhD · first author paper at ICML 2026