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Yun Yang

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Contact Information

141 Computing Applications Building
605 E Springfield Ave,
Champaign, IL 61820

Adjunct Associate Professor

Biography

2022 -- present: Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2018 -- 2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2016 -- 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Florida State University.

2014 -- 2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley.

Research Interests

Bayesian inference;  high-dimensional statistics;  machine learning;  non-parametric statistics; statistical learning theory; optimization.

Education

PhD, Statistics, Duke University, 2014.

BS, Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2011.

Additional Campus Affiliations

Adjunct Associate Professor, Statistics

Recent Publications

Yang, Y., Rogers, J. A., Yu, X., Lee, J., Sun, R., Xu, S., Jung, I. H., & Chung, H. U. (2024). Epidermal virtual reality devices. (U.S. Patent No. 11874965).

Zhao, W., Xu, Z., Mu, Y., Yang, Y., & Wu, W. (2024). Model-based statistical depth with applications to functional data. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 36(2), 313-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/10485252.2023.2226262

Chen, Y., Yao, R., Yang, Y., & Chen, J. (2023). A Gromov-Wasserstein Geometric View of Spectrum-Preserving Graph Coarsening. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 202, 4804-4825.

Chen, Y., He, S., Yang, Y., & Liang, F. (2023). Learning Topic Models: Identifiability and Finite-Sample Analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 118(544), 2860-2875. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2022.2089574

Tang, R., & Yang, Y. (2023). Minimax Nonparametric Two-Sample Test under Adversarial Losses. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 206, 6132-6165.

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