Zhexu Alex Jin

Welcome! I am a first-year PhD student at the statistics department in University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

I spent my undergraduate years in Kunshan, China and Durham, North Carolina, where I recieved my data science degree and graduated with distinction at Duke Kunshan University and Duke University.

In my undergraduate years, I was very fortunate to be working with Dr. Dongmian Zou on geometric machine learning and medical imaging, and with Dr. Ivan Mura on spatial temporal interpolation, stochatsic petri net and stochastic modeling.

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Research

I am interested in geometry related problem, such as latent space model for graph, optimal transportation and spatial statistics. I am also fascinated by problems in computational statistics.

The following is a list of past research projects:

Enriched spatial analysis of air pollution: Application to the city of Bogotá, Colombia
Zhexu Jin, Mario Andrés Velásquez Angel, Ivan Mura, Juan Felipe Franco
Front. Environ. Sci., 2022
[doi] [bibtex] [code]

We used spatial temporal kriging to identify a highly polluted cluster located in the south-west cluster in the city of Bogotá. Within this cluster, we observe a disproportionate representation of people from several vulnerable groups.

Towards Geometry-Aware Cell Segmentation in Microscopy Images
Zhexu Jin, Gaoyang Li, Huansheng Cao, and Dongmian Zou
Neurips 2022 Workshop: Medical Imaging Meets Nuerips
[abstract] [poster]

We designed a new loss based on persistent homology, a tool developed in computational topology, to match the geometry of segmentation network output with the groudtruth segmentation.

Teaching
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  • Lab Teaching Assistant, STAT 107 Fall 2023
  • Lab Teaching Assistant, STAT 107 Spring 2023

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