Yaowen ZHANG

Yaowen ZHANG

Phys Ph.D. student at HKUST

Publications

Thoughts

• Zhang, Y.W., 2026. "Stochastic Thermodynamics and SDE-based Generative Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.18290. [pdf]

Preprints

• Li, S.H., Chen, C., Zhang, Y.W. and Pan, D., 2026. "Differentiable free energy surface: a variational approach to directly observing rare events using generative deep-learning models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09769. [pdf]

Selected Publications

[6] Lo WK, Zhang Y, Chow HY, Wu J, Leung MY, Ho KO, Du X, Chen Y, Shen Y, Pan D, Yang S. "Enhancement of quantum coherence in solid-state qubits via interface engineering. Nature Communications". 2025 Jul 1;16(1):5984. [pdf]

[5] Li SH, Zhang YW, Pan D, "Deep Generative Modeling of the Canonical Ensemble with Differentiable Thermal Properties". Physical Review Letters. 2025 Jul 11;135(2):027301. [pdf]

[4] Y. Chen, L. Zhao, Y. Zhang and K. Shen, "Inverse Quadratic Transform for Minimizing a Sum of Ratios," in ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1-5, June 2023. [pdf]

[3] S. Ren, K. Shen, Y. Zhang, X. Li, X. Chen and Z. -Q. Luo, "Configuring Intelligent Reflecting Surface with Performance Guarantees: Blind Beamforming," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022. [pdf]

[2] Y. Zhang, K. Shen, S. Ren, X. Li, X. Chen and Z. -Q. Luo, "Configuring Intelligent Reflecting Surface With Performance Guarantees: Optimal Beamforming," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 967-979, Aug. 2022. [pdf]

[1] Y. Zhang, S. Ren, K. Shen and Z. -Q. Luo, "Optimal Discrete Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface," 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2021, pp. 1-6. [pdf]