Xin Zhang

· Assistant Professor

New York University · Finance and Risk Engineering

Active 1997–2026

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Citations4.3k

Papers297108 last 5y

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Xin Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Financial and Risk Engineering department at New York University. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2021 and completed a B.S. in Mathematics at Fudan University in 2016. Before joining NYU, he was a University Assistant at the University of Vienna from 2021 to 2024. His research focuses on optimal transport, stochastic analysis and control, with particular applications in Finance and Machine Learning. His specific interests include viscosity solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations and optimal transport in robust finance.

Research topics

Materials science
Biology
Nanotechnology
Chemistry
Genetics
Biophysics
Biochemistry
Organic chemistry
Cell biology
Optoelectronics

Selected publications

Polyadenylation of Histone H3.1 mRNA Promotes Cell Transformation by Displacing H3.3 from Gene Regulatory Elements
iScience · 2020 · 27 citations
. Here we report that polyadenylation of H3.1 mRNA increases H3.1 protein, resulting in displacement of histone variant H3.3 at active promoters, enhancers, and insulator regions, leading to transcriptional deregulation, G2/M cell-cycle arrest, chromosome aneuploidy, and aberrations. In support of these observations, knocking down the expression of H3.3 induced cell transformation, whereas ectopic expression of H3.3 attenuated arsenic-induced cell transformation. Notably, arsenic exposure also r…
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Discovery and analysis of an infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus strain isolated from marble goby revealing genome structure and pathogenicity
Aquaculture · 2026-04-19
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Odor-evoked modulation of functional network dynamics in the Drosophila brain revealed by pairwise MEM
Neurocomputing · 2026-05-14
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Frequent coauthors

Weiling Song
27 shared
Peng He
Qingdao University of Science and Technology
19 shared
Min‐Hua Xu
Guilin University of Technology
19 shared
Shusheng Zhang
Linyi University
18 shared
Yingshu Guo
17 shared
Ying Li
Capital University
15 shared
Bao‐Ping Qi
Minzu University of China
15 shared
Xiong Li
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
14 shared

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