About Me: Hi! I'm a second-year Ph.D. student at Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, advised by Prof. Zhuoran Yang. I'am also affiliated with Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY). Prior to that, I obtained my Bachelor of Science in Statistics from School of Management at Fudan University. Here is my CV.
Research Interests: My research interests lie in statistics, optimization, machine learning and their intersection. If you share similar interests, feel free to reach out. I'm always open to conversations and excited about exploring new things. :-)
Email: jianliang.he [at] yale.edu.
Educations
- Ph.D. in Statistics, Yale University, 2024.9 - Present.
- B.S. in Statistics, Fudan University, 2020.9 - 2024.6.
Selected Publications
- On the Mechanism and Dynamics of Modular Addition: Fourier Features, Lottery Ticket, and Grokking.
Jianliang He, Leda Wang, Siyu Chen, and Zhuoran Yang.
Submitted, arXiv.2602.16849, 2026. [arXiv][pdf] [code] [blog] - In-Context Linear Regression Demystified: Training Dynamics and Mechanistic Interpretability of Multi-Head Softmax Attention.
Jianliang He, Xintian Pan, Siyu Chen, and Zhuoran Yang.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025. [arXiv][pdf] [code] [blog]
Services
- Conference & Journal Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, Management Science.
- Teaching Assistant: S&DS 2410 Probability Theory, MANA130083.01 Nonparametric Statistics.