Zhenyuan Zhang

Hi! I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Mathematics at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Jose H. Blanchet. In the academic year 2025–2026, my research is generously supported by a Jump Trading Fellowship.
I am broadly interested in probability theory and its applications. My recent interest lies in branching particle systems (or more general log-correlated fields) and their applications in polymer physics and mathematical biology. I also work on optimal transport and applications to statistics, economics, and operations research. Other topics I have been actively working on include decision trees and Gaussian processes.
Before, I received my bachelor’s degree in Pure Mathematics from University of Waterloo, where I was fortunate to work with Profs. Alexander Schied, Yi Shen, and Ruodu Wang.
Email: zzy [at] stanford [dot] edu. Here is my Google scholar page.
Job Market I’m going on the academic job market in 2025–2026.
Publications
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Large deviations of first passage times of branching random walks in ℝd: asymptotics and algorithmsarXiv preprint, 2025arXiv Branching particle systems
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Sample path properties of the fractional Wiener–Weierstrass bridgearXiv preprint, 2024arXiv Stochastic processes
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Tightness analysis of first passage times of d-dimensional branching random walkarXiv preprint, 2024arXiv Branching particle systems
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On the first passage times of branching random walks in ℝdarXiv preprint, 2024arXiv Branching particle systems
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Empirical martingale projections via the adapted Wasserstein distancearXiv preprint, 2024arXiv Optimal transport
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Universality and phase transitions in low moments of secular coefficients of critical holomorphic multiplicative chaosarXiv preprint, 2024arXiv Branching particle systems
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Modeling shortest paths in polymeric networks using spatial branching processesJournal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2024arXiv Branching particle systems
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On the existence of powerful p-values and e-values for composite hypothesesThe Annals of Statistics, 2024arXiv Statistics theory
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Weierstrass bridgesTransactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2024arXiv Stochastic processes
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Martingale transports and Monge mapsThe Annals of Applied Probability, 2024arXiv Optimal transport
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Consensus on dynamic stochastic block models: fast convergence and phase transitionsarXiv preprint, 2022arXiv Probability models
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Simultaneous optimal transportTransactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2025arXiv Optimal transport
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A limit theorem for Bernoulli convolutions and the Φ-variation of functions in the Takagi classJournal of Theoretical Probability, 2022arXiv Roughness analysis
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A probabilistic approach to the Φ-variation of classical fractal functions with critical roughnessStatistics & Probability Letters, 2021arXiv Roughness analysis
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On the pth variation of a class of fractal functionsProceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2020arXiv Roughness analysis
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On discrete-time self-similar processes with stationary incrementsElectronic Journal of Probability, 2021arXiv Stochastic processes