Photo taken at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
Email: yun.wei@duke.edu
Here is my CV (last updated: 09/08/2023)
I am a postdoc at SAMSI and the Department of Statistical Science at Duke. My postdoc mentor is Sayan Mukherjee, Hau-tieng Wu and Eric Laber.
I obtained my Ph.D. degree in 2020 from the program Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, supervised by Alfred Hero and XuanLong Nguyen. I obtained my B.S. degree from Nankai University in 2013 and M.S. degree from University of Michigan in 2014.
I will join Department of Mathematical Science at University of Texas at Dallas as an Assistant Professor this coming Fall.
Research Interests
Latent Variable Models, Hierarchical models
High Dimensional Statistics
Bayesian Statistics
Reinforcement Learning
Mathematical Statistics/Mathematics of Data Science
Optimal Transport
Information Theory
I am broadly interested in statistics, optimization, and machine learning. Feel free to email me if you want to chat about anything.
Upcoming Talks
2023 Dec 10-15, "Parameter estimation in finite mixture model", BIRS-IASM Workshop: Harnessing the power of latent structure models and modern Big Data learning