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Education, publications, research experience, and technical skills.

Contact Information

Name Zhili Wang
Professional Title PhD Student in Data Science
Email 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

  • 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
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 2020 - 2024

    Chongqing, China

    B.E.
    Southwest University
    Computer Science and Technology
    • Honors: University-level First-class Scholarship, University-level Second-class Scholarship.

Publications

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 2025
    Online Learning from Irregular, Drifting, and Heterogeneous Streaming Data
    IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS)

    Under review.

Skills

Programming Languages (Advanced): Python, SQL, C++, Bash
ML / Data Libraries (Advanced): PyTorch, Scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, CapyMOA, Matplotlib, Transformers
Tools & Platforms (Advanced): Git, Docker, LaTeX, Linux, VS Code, Weights & Biases

Languages

Chinese : Native speaker
English : Fluent

Interests

Online Learning & Stream Mining: Evolving feature spaces, concept drift, heterogeneous data streams
AI for Data Science: LLM-based synthetic tabular data generation, causal structure, machine learning systems