Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang



I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at CREST - ENSAE ParisTech, working with Professor Marco Cuturi and Professor Gabriel Peyré.
I received my Ph.D. degree from Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto in 2018, under supervision of Professor Robert J. McCann. During summer 2018, I visited Professor Guillaume Carlier at MOKAPLAN, INRIA.


Research Interests:

Optimal Transport, and its applications in

  • - Economics (Screening, Auction)
  • - Machine Learning (GANs)
  • - Statistics (MCMC)
Convex Analysis, Duality, Optimization

Interested Topics Include:
  • Prescribed Jacobian equation, Monge–Ampère equation
  • Langevin Monte Carlo, Fokker–Planck equation
  • The principal-agent framework, Duopoly models
  • Wasserstein GANs, Domain adaptation

Publications and Preprints:

[1] Circular cone: a novel approach for protein ligand shape matching using modified PCA [pdf]. Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang, Jun Du, Liang Zhang, Cheng Zeng, Qiao Liu, Tao Zhang and Gang Hu. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 108 (1) (2012) 168-175.
[2] Implicit manifold learning on generative adversarial networks [pdf]. Kry Yik Chau Lui, Yanshuai Cao, Maxime Gazeau, Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang. ICML2017 Workshop on Implicit Generative Models, Sydney, 2017.
[3] On concavity of the monopolist's problem facing consumers with nonlinear price preferences [pdf], with Robert J. McCann. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21817
[4] Existence in multidimensional screening with general nonlinear preferences [pdf]. Econ. Theory (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-018-1170-4
[5] Existence, Uniqueness, Concavity and Geometry of the Monopolist’s Problem Facing Consumers with Nonlinear Price Preferences [pdf]. PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2018.


Invited Talks
Useful Links:

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Dr. Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang
Center for Research in Economics and Statistics
École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique (ENSAE ParisTech)
Campus Paris-Saclay, 5 Avenue Henry Le Chatelier
91120 Palaiseau, FRANCE
Office: Room 3028
Email: shuangjian.zhang [at(@)] ensae.fr