About me

Yifei Xiong

I am currently enrolled in a Master’s program with a focus on Statistics and Machine Learning.
My research interests include Bayesian statistics, Monte Carlo methods, differential privacy, and machine learning techniques.
Email: xiongyifei21 [AT] mails.ucas.ac.cn

News

Some of my undergraduate maths course notes are now available on here.

Educations

• Sep 2021 - Present, M.Sc. in Probability and Mathematical Statistics
  School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Advisor: Prof. Sanguo Zhang

• Sep 2017 - Jul 2021, B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
  Minor in Computer Science and Technology
  School of Mathematics, South China University of Technology
  Graduation Thesis Advisor: Prof. Zhijian He

Talks

• SNPE-B Revisited: Rethinking of Data Efficiency and Variance Reduction
  10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)
  Waseda University, Tokyo, Aug 25, 2023. [Link]
  第十届国际工业与应用数学联合会, 早稻田大学

• An efficient likelihood-free Bayesian inference method based on sequential neural posterior estimation
  The 24th Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Youth Symposium on Probability Statistics
  Tsinghua University, Beijing, Jun 10, 2023. [Slides] [Link]
  第二十四届京津冀青年概率统计学术研讨会, 清华大学

Publications and Manuscripts

• Leveraging nested MLMC for sequential neural posterior estimation with intractable likelihoods
  Xiliang Yang, Yifei Xiong, Zhijian He
  Under review, Dec 2023. [arXiv]

• Conditional density estimations from privacy-protected data
  Yifei Xiong, Nianqiao P. Ju, Sanguo Zhang
  Under review, Oct 2023. [arXiv]

• An efficient likelihood-free Bayesian inference method based on sequential neural posterior estimation
  Yifei Xiong, Xiliang Yang, Sanguo Zhang, Zhijian He
  Under review, May 2023. [arXiv]

• 3D geometric modeling analysis of contact probability effect in carbon black oxidation over MnOx-CeO2 catalysts
  Jingheng Gao, Yifei Xiong, Qian Zhang, et.al
  Chemical Engineering Journal, May 2020. [Article]