Duan Tu | 涂端



Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago
Office: SEO 1323
Email:   dtu4 at uic dot edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers

This website was last updated in July 2026.

I obtained my PhD in Mathematics from the MSCS Department of the University of Illinois Chicago, where I specialized in machine learning theory. My research uses combinatorics and probability theory to study theoretical computer science problems and I have also worked on problems in deep learning theory. I was fortunate to be advised by Lev Reyzin.

Before UIC, I was an undergraduate student at the University of Florida, where I majored in math and minored in violin performance. And before that, I attended the United World College, USA in Montezuma, NM.

My CV can be found here.

News

I will be joining Meta as a Reseach Scientist in August 2026.

Research

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Theoretical Computer Science

  1. On Sample Reuse Methods for Answering k-wise Statistical Queries.
    Lev Reyzin*, Duan Tu*.
    18th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM 2024).[Conference]
    Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) special issue on ISAIM 2024. [Journal]
    Presentations:

  2. On Lower Bounds For Local Versions of Metric Embeddings.
    Vishesh Jain*, Duan Tu*.
    Submitted. Manuscript available at [Manuscript].

  3. An Efficient Algorithm for Generating Private Synthetic Data.
    Lev Reyzin*, Duan Tu*.
    Submitted. Code available at [GitHub].

  4. Optimizing over Mode Connectivity for Multi-Task Learning and Machine Unlearning.
    Duan Tu, Yingdan Shi, Xu Zhang, Hongkang Li, Ren Wang.
    Submitted.

Mathematical Biology

  1. Microglia Senescence Occurs in Both Substantia Nigra and Ventral Tegmental Area.
    Fatemeh Shaerzadeh, Leah Phan, Douglas Miller, Maxwell Dacquel, William Hachmeister, Carissa Hansen, Alexandra Bechtle, Duan Tu, Maia Martcheva, Thomas Foster, Ashok Kumar, Wolfgang Streit, Habibeh Khoshbouei.
    Glia. 2020;68 (11), 2228-2245. [Journal]
    Presentations:

Teaching and Mentoring

University of Illinois Chicago