Pengzhan Guo (郭鹏展)

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Assistant Professor
Division of Natural and Applied Science, Data Science
Duke Kunshan University,
Kunshan, Jiangsu 215000, P.R. China
Email: pg180@duke.edu

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About me

I am currently an Assistant Professor at Duke Kunshan University.

Before that, I received the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics from Stony Brook University in 2021.

I also obtained my M.S. degree in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics from Stony Brook University in 2018.

Research Interests: Parallel Computing, Stochastic Optimization, Data Mining, Machine Learning and their applications.

Educations

Stony Brook University 

Ph.D. Stony Brook University (2018.12 ~ 2021.12)

  • Supervised by Prof. Wei Zhu & Prof. Keli Xiao

  • Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Statistics Track

  • Awards: AMS Graduate Award [Excellence in Research]

Stony Brook University 

M.S. Stony Brook University (2017.8 ~ 2018.12)

  • Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Computational Applied Mathematics Track

  • GPA: 4.0/4.0

Work Experience

Research Intern Samsung Research America (2021.5 ~ 2021.8)

Teaching Experience

Duke Kunshan University (2022.7 ~ 至今)

  • MATH 105: Calculus

  • MATH 202: Linear Algebra

  • STATS 303: Statistical Machine Learning

Stony Brook University (2018.6 ~ 2021.1)

  • AMS 560: Big Data Systems, Algorithms and Networks;

  • AMS 527: Numerical Analysis II, AMS 528: Numerical Analysis III;

  • AMS 510 (Taught Recitation Sessions; Mean Score: A-): Analytical Methods for Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

Publications

Awards and Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.62406130), 2025-2027
  • Principal Investigator, Multi-agent Recommendation System, Kunshan Supercomputer Center, 2023-current