Cheng Mao
Associate Professor
School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: cheng.mao@math.gatech.eduOffice: Skiles 102C
686 Cherry Street, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
Research
My research interests center around the mathematics of data science, which is at the intersection of statistics, applied probability, optimization, and computer science.
People
Ph.D. students
- Jingyi Zhang, co-advised with Debankur Mukherjee
Visiting Assistant Professors/Postdoctoral researchers
- Byron Chin, 2026–
- Timothy Wee, 2024–
Alumni
- Shenduo Zhang, Ph.D. 2026, software engineer at Google
- Abhishek Dhawan, Ph.D. 2024 (co-advised with Anton Bernshteyn), postdoc at UIUC
Academic background
Before joining Georgia Tech, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University from 2018 to 2019, working with Yihong Wu. I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics and Statistics from MIT in 2018, advised by Philippe Rigollet, and my B.S. and M.A. in Mathematics from UCLA in 2013.