Zixiao Jolene Wang
Welcome! My name is Zixiao [/tsʰɨ́.ɕjɑʊ̯/] Jolene Wang. I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student at Harvard University, co-advised by James Robins, Rajarshi Mukherjee and Andrea Rotnitzky.
Previously, I received my M.S. in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University advised by Ilya Shpitser and Hongkai Ji, and my B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University advised by Lin Liu and Hongyu Zhao.
Email: zixiaowang [at] fas.harvard.edu
Research Topics
My research lies at the intersection of statistical inference, reinforcement learning, and automated theorem proving. I focus on developing frameworks for integrating formal & informal reasoning and on understanding how agents can engage in open-ended mathematical discovery.
News
- Dec 2025: Awarded the Rose Traveling Fellowship!
- Sep 2025: NeurIPS 2025 accepted our paper "Optimal Nuisance Function Tuning for Doubly Robust Functional Estimation under Proportional Asymptotic" as a Spotlight.
- Jul 2025: Joined Lean for Mathematicians 2025 in NYC workshop.
- Jul 2024: Presented our paper 'Identification and Estimation for Nonignorable Missing Data: A Data Fusion Approach' at ICML 2024 in Vienna, Austria.
Publications
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Optimal Nuisance Function Tuning for Doubly Robust Functional
Estimation under Proportional Asymptotics
NeurIPS, 2025 (Spotlight).
- Global Mapping of Combinatorial Chromatin Regulatory Events Using Hi-Plex CUT&Tag
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Can a Society of Generative Agents Simulate Human Behavior and
Inform Public Health Policy? A Case Study on Vaccine
Hesitancy
COLM, 2025.
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Identification and Estimation for Nonignorable Missing Data: A
Data Fusion Approach
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024.
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Book Review: Semiparametric Regression with R
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 117(540):2283-2287, 2022.
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Shared Genetic Architecture of Blood Eosinophil Counts and Asthma
in UK Biobank
ERJ Open Research, 9(4), 2023.
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An Asynchronous Variational Integrator for Contact Problems
Involving Elastoplastic Solids
Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, 2024.