James Zhao

Hi, I'm James. I'm a fourth year PhD student in the maths* department at Stanford. My advisor is Persi Diaconis.

Contact

Teaching

• MATH51 Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus of Several Variables (Spring 2012)
• MATH113 Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory (Winter 2012)
• MATH51 Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus of Several Variables (Winter 2011)
• MATH51 Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus of Several Variables (Autumn 2009)
• 620-201 Probability (Semester 1, 2008)
• 620-123 Applied Mathematics (Advanced) (Semester 2, 2007)
• 620-121 Mathematics A (Advanced) (Semester 1, 2007)
• 620-123 Applied Mathematics (Advanced) (Semester 2, 2006)
• 620-121 Mathematics A (Advanced) (Semester 1, 2006)

Publications

• The Hopfield Model with Superlinearly Many Patterns (submitted)
• Universality of Asymptotically Ewens Measures on Partitions (Electronic Communications in Probability, 2012)
• Hidden Markov Models with Multiple Observation Processes (Masters Thesis, 2010)

Miscellaneous

• I used to run a movie night for the Stanford maths grad students.
• I was President of the Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistics Society.
• (*) You might notice I say "maths" instead of "math". That's because it's short for "mathematics", which is plural. Sometimes, I almost convince myself that "math" is a reasonable abbreviation, but then I remember that Americans say "math and stats". That's just silly.
• I wrote a short tutorial on how to use custom fonts in LaTeX.
• I like coding things. I used to host a MUD (that I wrote from scratch!), but I stopped because it didn't have any players. Instead, you can play with this little commenting gadget I made: