Contact Information
605 E Springfield Ave,
Champaign, IL 61820
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
External Links
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.