Zhijian Zhou

Hi, there! I am a second-year PhD student at TMLR Group in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, the University of Melbourne, advised by Dr. Feng Liu and Dr. Liuhua Peng. I received my Master degree from the School of Artificial Intelligence at Nanjing University in 2024, where I was supervised by Dr. Wei Gao and was a member of the LAMDA Group, led by Professor Zhihua Zhou. Prior to that, I received my B.Eng. degree in Transportation Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2021.

As of now, my research interests lie in:

Data-adaptive Non-parametric Hypothesis Testing.

Conformal Prediction with Statistics.

Trustworthy Misinformation Detection.

Selected Publications

DUAL: Learning Diverse Kernels for Aggregated Two-sample and Independence Testing

Z.-J. Zhou, X.-Y. Tian, L.-H. Peng, C. Lei, A. Schrab, D. J. Sutherland, and F. Liu

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38, 2025

Bib PDF Code

@incollection{Zhou:Tian:Peng:Lei:Schrab:Sutherland:Liu2025,
  author = {Zhou, Z.-J. and Tian, X.-Y. and Peng, L.-H. and Lei, C. and Schrab, A. and Sutherland, D.~J. and Liu, F.},
  title = {{DUAL:} Learning Diverse Kernels for Aggregated Two-sample and Independence
                    Testing},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38},
  publisher = {Curran Associates},
  address = {Dutchess, NY},
  year = {2025}
}

Anchor-based Maximum Discrepancy for Relative Similarity Testing

Z.-J. Zhou, L.-H. Peng, X.-Y. Tian, and F. Liu

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38, 2025

Bib PDF Code

@incollection{Zhou:Peng:Tian:Liu2025,
  author = {Zhou, Z.-J. and Peng, L.-H. and Tian, X.-Y. and Liu, F.},
  title = {Anchor-based Maximum Discrepancy for Relative Similarity Testing},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38},
  publisher = {Curran Associates},
  address = {Dutchess, NY},
  year = {2025}
}

On the Exploration of Local Significant Differences for Two-Sample Test

Z.-J. Zhou, J. Ni, J.-H. Yao, and W. Gao

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36, 2023

Bib PDF Code

@incollection{Zhou:Ni:Yao:Gao2023,
  author = {Zhou, Z.-J. and Ni, J. and Yao, J.-H. and Gao, W.},
  title = {On the Exploration of Local Significant Differences for Two-Sample Test},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36},
  publisher = {Curran Associates},
  address = {Dutchess, NY},
  year = {2023}
}