Zhiyan Ding

Zhiyan Ding is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, they held a Morrey Visiting Assistant Professorship at UC Berkeley. Their research focuses on applied and computational mathematics, particularly numerical analysis in quantum computing, machine learning, and data science. Key interests include quantum eigenvalue estimation, signal processing, optimization, and mean-field analysis. They received their B.A. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2017), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2018, 2022).

• Education: B.A. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, M.A./Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Teaching: Taught courses such as Math 104 (Introduction to Analysis), Math 185 (Complex Analysis) at Berkeley, and currently teaches at U-M

Research emphasizes rigorous mathematical foundations for algorithms in quantum and classical systems. No labs/teams explicitly mentioned in provided texts.