"Ryan" Zheyuan Lai

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Hi! I am a third-year undergraduate student at the National University of Singapore (NUS), pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics with a minor in Computer Science. Currently, I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Michael Choi, working on the intersection of Markov chains and information theory. In Summer 2025, I collaborated with Prof. Xiang Zhou’s team on generative modeling with diffusion and Lévy processes.

My academic interests lie broadly in the theory and applications of stochastic processes and machine learning. I am actively looking for research opportunities in these topics, please feel free to reach out to me if you have any openings, ideas, or just want to connect!

📚 Selected Publications

  1. Preprint
    Information-theoretic minimax and submodular optimization algorithms for multivariate Markov chains
    Zheyuan Lai, and Michael C.H. Choi
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.00769, 2025
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  2. Preprint
    Information-theoretic subset selection of multivariate Markov chains via submodular optimization
    Zheyuan Lai, and Michael C.H. Choi
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23340, 2025
    arXiv PDF Code