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 RA (at any level) or a Postdoctoral Scholar working on the topic of spatial point processes. If you are interested, please send me an email with your CV and the contact information of one reference (for master's level or below) or two references (for doctoral level or above). See the job description. 

• I can also support a short-term visit (1 month to 6 months) for current domestic or international graduate students. Please send me the relevant documents listed above, along with the intended duration and a paragraph long statement on your goals for the visit. 

Papers and Preprints (Google Scholar)

Spatial point processes

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

• "Fourier analysis of spatial point processes". Bernoulli (accepted). 2024.(with Yongtao Guan) [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.