Zijun Yu PhD · McGill
Montréal, QC

Zijun Yu

I'm a PhD student in Mathematics & Statistics at McGill University, working at the intersection of statistical theory and modern machine learning. Before academia, four years building production software taught me to keep things robust and elegant.

Selected publications

Recent work in conformal prediction.

† denotes equal contribution.

    ICML · 2026 Accepted

    Beyond Procedure: Substantive Fairness in Conformal Prediction

    Pengqi Liu†, Zijun Yu†, Mouloud Belbahri, Arthur Charpentier, Masoud Asgharian, Jesse C. Cresswell

    • Conformal Prediction
    • Fairness
    arXiv ↗
    In submission · 2026 Under review

    Pause and Reflect: Conformal Aggregation for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Yu Gu†, Zijun Yu†, Vahid Partovi Nia, Masoud Asgharian

    • Conformal Prediction
    • LLM Reasoning
    arXiv ↗