Qiang Wu

I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Starting in Fall 2023, I am a Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor in the University of Minnesota . My primary research interest is in probability theory and statistical physics interacting with high dimensional statistics, machine learning theory and efficient (sampling and approximation) algorithms in theoretical computer science. I was advised by Professor Partha S. Dey.

Email: wuq [at] umn [dot] edu

Office: Vincent Hall 221, School of mathematics, UMN.

I will be on the job market in Fall 2025.

Selected Research (Full list )

► Mean field spin glasses under weak external fields,

with Partha S. Dey, Commun. Math. Phys. 402, no.2, 1205–1258, 2023, arXiv:2112.11349

► Hypergraph counting and mixed p-spin glass models under replica symmetry,

with Partha S. Dey, in revision at Commun. Math. Phys. , arXiv:2212.14571

► Joint parameter estimations for spin glasses,

with Wei-Kuo Chen, Arnab Sen , revision submitted, Annals of Statistics , arXiv:2406.10760

► Sampling from the continuous random energy model in total variation distance,

with Holden Lee , in revision at Annals of Applied Probability , arXiv:2407.00868

Teaching

At UMN

Math 5651: Basic theory of probability and statistics, Fall 2025

Math 5652: Introduction to stochastic process, Fall 2023, 2024

Math 5652: Introduction to stochastic process (2 sections), 2024, 2025 Spring

At UIUC

Math 231: Calculus II, Fall 2021

Math 234: Business calculus, Spring 2019

Math 221: Calculus I, Fall 2018, appeared in the excellent TA list.

Math 241: Calculus III, Fall 2019,2020.

Math 415: Applied Linear Algebra, Spring 2021.

Talks

Probability Seminar, University of Macau, March, 2022.

Probability Seminar, University of Wisconsin–Madison, March, 2022.

Frontier Probability Days, Mean field spin glass models under weak external fields, December, 2021.

Northeast Probability Seminar, Mean field spin glass models under weak external fields, November, 2021.

Workshop on Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems, MSRI, Berkeley, September, 2021.

Workshop on Structured Random Matrices in Down Under, August, 2021.

Probability seminar, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 2021.

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