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Yuanhang Zhang

Postdoctoral researcher, UC San Diego.
Incoming faculty, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, USTC · fall 2026.

yuz092@ucsd.edu Google Scholar GitHub ORCID 0000-0002-5415-3307

Education

2020 — 2024
Ph.D. in Physics
University of California, San Diego
Thesis: The physics of computing with memory. Advisor: Massimiliano Di Ventra.
2015 — 2019
B.Sc. Physics (minor in Computer Science)
University of Science and Technology of China
School of the Gifted Young.

Experience

2026 — incoming
Associate Professor
University of Science and Technology of China
Joining fall 2026 · recruiting students.
2024 — now
Postdoctoral Researcher
UC San Diego
Advisors: Ivan Schuller, Massimiliano Di Ventra.
2020
Teaching Assistant, Electricity & Magnetism Lab
UC San Diego
2019
Postbaccalaureate Researcher
Tsinghua University
Advisor: Dong-Ling Deng.

Selected talks

2026
AI-assisted MemComputing: Scientific Research as Meta-Optimization
APS Global Physics Summit
2025
Long-range order and its relevance in machine learning
APS Global Physics Summit
2024
Computing with long-range order: from AI to combinatorial optimization
Invited seminar, USTC
2024
Collective dynamics and memory-induced long-range order in spiking oscillator arrays
APS March Meeting
Featured student talk at APS Far West Section, 2023.
2023
Neuromorphic computing with thermal interactions
Invited talk, NIST
2023
Transformer Quantum State: a multi-purpose model for quantum many-body problems
APS March Meeting
2023
Self-averaging of digital memcomputing machines
APS March Meeting
2022
Towards a general-purpose model for quantum many-body problems
Seminar, Tsinghua University
2022
Quantum state tomography with mode-assisted training
APS March Meeting
2021
Topological quantum compiling with reinforcement learning
Seminar, University of Oxford

Beyond

Full publication list: /papers. Detailed research program: /research. Hiring information: /join. Live source-of-truth on publications: Google Scholar.