Zhongwei Zhang

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sebastian Engelke’s group at the University of Geneva. Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. in Statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under the supervision of Raphaël Huser. Prior to this, I completed a M.Sc. in Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University, China.

My research interests center around extreme value statistics, spatial statistics, and their applications particularly to climate science. Recently I have started to explore the intersection between extreme value statistics and machine learning. More precisely, I am interested in understanding whether extreme events can be well predicted by machine learning models, how to interpret these models, and how to improve their prediction accuracy for extreme events.