Mengyuan Zhao

I am a Ph.D. student at KTH, supervised by Prof. Tobias Oechtering and Prof. Maël Le Treust on the topic of information theory of stochastic decision problems since June 2023. Before joining KTH, I obtained my M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from ETH Zürich.

My research interests lie in classical information theory, approached through a range of mathematical tools including statistics, analysis, and graph theory, etc..

At present, my research focuses on

• Deriving fundamental limits and designing coordination-coding schemes for a distributed decision-making problem that was initially formulated by Hans Witsenhausen as a famous counterexample in 1968. Have a quick look at our approaches here.

• Extending the empirical coordination framework from the classical discrete memoryless setting to Markov models with processing memory, with preliminary results available here.

Click here for a photo of me reading a paper. Besides, I also enjoy playing piano, tennis, skiing, and all kinds of water sports.

Please feel free to reach out to me if you would like to have a discussion:-)