Yun Yang
Biography
I will join the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, as an Associate Professor. Previously, I was with the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 2011, and obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University in 2014.Â
Research interests
My research interests lie broadly in machine learning, Bayesian inference, data-driven optimization, and theoretical foundations of high dimensional statistics. Recently, I become interested in applying optimal transport and Wasserstein gradient flows to study theoretical properties and design scalable algorithms in statistical problems, including regression, clustering, generative modelling and approximate Bayesian computation.
Service
Associate Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2023 -- present.
Area Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2022 -- present.
Contact
Email: yy84 (at) umd (dot) edu
Office: 2310 Kirwan Hall, College Park, MD 20742