HongKun Zhang

Prof. HongKun Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on hyperbolic dynamical systems, chaotic billiards, and stochastic processes, with recent emphasis on machine learning applications in dynamical systems, financial mathematics, and graph neural networks. She has organized numerous conferences and holds significant grants, including NSF awards and Simons Foundation support.

Key research areas include:

• Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems
• Chaotic Billiards and Ergodic Theory
• Graph Neural Networks
• Financial Mathematics

Notable awards/grants:

• NSF Grant (DMS-2220211) for anomaly detection in human dynamics (2023–2026)
• Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant (2020)
• NSF CAREER Award (2012–2017)

Her work bridges pure mathematics with applications in finance, physics, and machine learning, with recent publications in Chaos, Physical Review E, and Neural Networks.