Junho Yang 

About me

Hi, I am a (tenure-track) assistant research fellow in the Institute of Statistical Science at Academia Sinica.  

My research interests include, but not restricted to

• • spatial point processes,

  • time series analysis,

  • and applied probability focusing on the spectral properties of Toeplitz matrices.

Available positions

• I am seeking a full-time Research Assistant (at any level) and / or a Postdoctoral Scholar working on the topic of spatial point processes. I can also support a short-term visit (1 month to 6 months) for current domestic or international graduate students.

• For those who are interested and can read Mandarin, please refer to the job posting and follow the application instructions. For non-mandarin speakers, please refer to the job description. 

• The position is open as long as this post is active. 

Papers and Preprints (Google Scholar)

Spatial point processes

• "On ignorability of preferential sampling in geostatistics". 2025. (with Changqing Lu, Ganggang Xu, and Yongtao Guan)[arXiv]

• "Pseudo-spectra of multivariate inhomogeneous spatial point processes". 2025. (with Qi-Wen Ding and Joonho Shin)(Submitted)[arXiv]

• "Fourier analysis of spatial point processes". Bernoulli. 2026. (with Yongtao Guan) [journal][arXiv]

• "On minimum contrast method for multivariate spatial point processes". Electronic Journal of Statistics. 2025. (with Lin Zhu, Mikyoung Jun, and Scott Cook)[journal][arXiv]

Time series

• "On the edge eigenvalues of the precision matrix of the nonstationary autoregressive processes". Advances in Applied Probability. 2025. [journal][arXiv]

• "On the asymptotic behavior of a finite section of the optimal causal filter".  Bernoulli. 2024. [journal][arXiv]

•  "A prediction perspective on the Wiener-Hopf equations for time series". Journal of Time Series Analysis. 2023. (with Suhasini Subba Rao) [journal][arXiv]

• "Reconciling the Gaussian and Whittle Likelihood with an application to estimation in the frequency domain". Annals of Statistics.  2021. (with Suhasini Subba Rao) [journal][arXiv][blogpost]

• "Spectral methods for small sample time series: A complete periodogram approach".  Journal of Time Series Analysis. 2021. (with Sourav Das and Suhasini Subba Rao) [journal][arXiv][software]

Applications 

• "Evaluating the relationship between lightning and the large-scale environment and its use for lightning prediction". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2021. (with Montana Etten-Bohm, Courtney Schumacher, and Mikyoung Jun) [journal]

• "Predictive Statistical representations of observed and simulated rainfall using generalized linear models". Journal of Climate. 2019. (with Mikyoung Jun, Courtney Schumacher, and R. Saravanan) [journal]

Miscellaneous

• "Local approximations of inverse block Toeplitz matrices and Baxter-type theorems for long-memory processes".  2023. (with Akihiko Inoue) (Technical Report)[arXiv]

• "A new spectral method in time series analysis". Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A&M University, 2021. [link]

Upcoming Visits / Presentations

• [Dec. 17-20, 2025] Joint 2025 @Academia Sinica, Taiwan (I am one of the local organizing committees and I will also deliver a presentation).

• [Jun. 13-16, 2026] IMS-APRM 2026 @CUHK (invitation from Won Chang).

Selected Awards

• 2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program--Emerging Young Scholars (2030跨世代年輕學者方案--新秀學者), NSTC, Taiwan, 2025.

• Career Development Award (前瞻計畫), Academia Sinica, 2025.

• Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (吳大猷先生紀念獎), NSTC, Taiwan, 2024.

• KISS Career Development Award (Honorable Mention), Korean International Statistical Society (KISS), 2021.