{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:00:38","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wanchen Zhao<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mathematics PhD Student \/ TA <a href=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/files\/zhao-wanchen-raw-362-2-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-183 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/files\/zhao-wanchen-raw-362-2-1-e1738796769458-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/files\/zhao-wanchen-raw-362-2-1-e1738796769458-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/files\/zhao-wanchen-raw-362-2-1-e1738796769458-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/files\/zhao-wanchen-raw-362-2-1-e1738796769458-768x976.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/files\/zhao-wanchen-raw-362-2-1-e1738796769458-200x254.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/files\/zhao-wanchen-raw-362-2-1-e1738796769458-300x381.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/files\/zhao-wanchen-raw-362-2-1-e1738796769458.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Topological data analysis, homological algebra, category theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B.Sc. in Applied Physics, Columbia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email: wzhao1@ufl.edu<br>\nOffice: LIT 487<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m a fifth year PhD working with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/peterbubenik\/\">Professor Peter Bubenik<\/a>. My research includes studying and developing vectorization methods for asymptotic behavior of persistence diagrams, and generalizing persistence landscapes for the limiting object. I define a new metric between interval modules and use it for the 1-Wasserstein distance between persistence diagrams. I show the 1-Wasserstein stability of persistence diagrams and L^1 stability of persistence landscapes using this new metric. There&#8217;re more details and cool pictures on my <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/research\/\">research page<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s my <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/content-removed\/\">poster<\/a> that won the best poster award at JMM AWM poster session.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1215,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wzhao1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}