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Education, publications, research experience, and technical skills.
Contact Information
| Name | Zhili Wang |
| Professional Title | PhD Student in Data Science |
| zwang68@wm.edu |
Professional Summary
PhD student in Data Science at William & Mary, advised by Prof. Yi He. Research focuses on utilitarian online learning, data stream evolution, and LLM-based synthetic tabular data generation.
Experience
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2025 - Williamsburg, VA, USA
Lead Developer
OpenMOA Project
- Architected and developed a Python library for practical online learning tasks.
- Extended the CapyMOA framework to support data streams with evolving feature spaces.
- Implemented efficient algorithms to handle non-stationary data environment challenges.
- Software available at: https://openmoa.net
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2026 - Williamsburg, VA, USA
Research Lead
LLM-based Synthetic Tabular Data Generation
- Conducted a systematic review of LLM-based techniques for generating high-fidelity tabular data.
- Reproduced representative SOTA algorithms to evaluate performance on diverse datasets.
- Investigating novel methods to bridge the gap between LLM capabilities and structured data utility.
Education
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2025 - Williamsburg, VA, USA
Ph.D.
College of William & Mary
Data Science
- Advisor: Prof. Yi He
- Affiliated with the School of Computing, Data Sciences, and Physics (CDSP).
- Core research focus on utilitarian online learning and data stream evolution.
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2020 - 2024 Chongqing, China
B.E.
Southwest University
Computer Science and Technology
- Honors: University-level First-class Scholarship, University-level Second-class Scholarship.
Publications
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2027 Dynamic Mechanism Fidelity for Nonstationary Tabular Data: Evaluation and Mechanism-Guided Generation
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Under review. Introduces Dynamic Mechanism Fidelity (DMF) for evaluating nonstationary tabular generation, and DyMeG, a mechanism-guided generator that routes each generation step through shared or shifted low-rank adapters.
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2025 OpenMOA: A Python Library for Utilitarian Online Learning
Journal of Machine Learning Research – Machine Learning Open Source Software (JMLR MLOSS)
Under review. A Python library for practical online learning tasks, extending the CapyMOA framework to support evolving feature spaces and non-stationary data streams.
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2025 Online Learning from Irregular, Drifting, and Heterogeneous Streaming Data
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS)
Under review.