06 · Students

Students and mentoring.

Research grows through close collaboration, careful mathematics, and ownership of difficult questions. This page records current advising, undergraduate research mentoring, and thesis committee service.

Open opportunities

Undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers

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.

Please include a concise description of your background, research interests, and the question you would most like to explore.

Email Yiping

Current advisee

PhD student

Work at the intersection of applied probability, stochastic simulation, and the mathematical theory of inference time reasoning.

Since September 2025

Youheng Zhu

Northwestern University

Sequential Monte Carlo Stochastic simulation Inference time scaling Reasoning theory

01 AISTATS 2026 Offline POMDP Learning Uses belief space covering to mitigate the curse of horizon and memory in off policy evaluation. 02 ICML 2026 LLM Reasoning Theory Shows when approximate reward models reduce the complexity of inference time scaling through sequential Monte Carlo. 03 AI for Mathematics Stochastic Networks and the Signed BAR Conjecture Combines algebraic structure with AI assisted search to prove uniqueness and construct an obstruction. 04 High Dimensional Probability Large Deviations and Heavy Tail Fragility Develops a large deviation view of high dimensional interpolators beyond benign average case behavior.

Research mentoring

Supervised undergraduate researchers

Research year, undergraduate institution, next position, and publication outcome are listed from the current CV.

2021 · PKU

Wenlong Ji

Next position Stanford Statistics PhD

First author paper published at ICLR 2022

2021 · Caltech

Haoxuan Chen

Next position Stanford ICME PhD

First author paper published at ICLR 2022

2022 · PKU

Jikai Jin

Next position Stanford ICME PhD

First author paper published at ICLR 2023

2023 · PKU

Kaizhao Liu

Next position MIT Mathematics PhD

First author paper published at ICML 2024

2023 · HKUST

Honam Wong

Next position University of Pennsylvania Computer Science PhD

First author paper submitted

2024 · SJTU

Ruihan Xu

Next position University of Chicago Data Science PhD

First author paper published at AISTATS 2025, with another paper submitted

2024 · PKU

Zexi Fan

Next position Columbia Applied Mathematics PhD

First author paper published at ICLR 2026

2025 · Fudan

Weizhong Wang

Next position Columbia IEOR PhD

2025 · NYU

Yifang Chen

Next position University of Chicago Data Science PhD

2025 · PKU

Weizhong Wang

Next position Northwestern IEMS PhD

First author paper published at ICML 2026

Academic service

Thesis defense committees

Doctoral thesis committee service across applied mathematics, statistics, and machine learning.

Northwestern University

Suraj Yerramilli
Ziwei Su
Wei Liu

Georgia Tech

Yan Sun

Columbia University

Daozhe Lin