Rentian Yao

Biography

I am a 5th year Ph.D candidate in the Department of statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am honored to be advised by Xiaohui Chen and Yun Yang. Before that, I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University in 2019.

optimal transport, interacting particle system, sampling, Bayesian statistics

Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, 2023 Fall

Norton Prize for outstanding thesis research in the Department of Statistics at UIUC, 2023

ASA SBSS student paper award, 2023

First Prize of Fudan University Scholarship, 2018

Fudan Professional Scholarship for undergraduate, 2016-2018

Silver Medal in China Mathematics Olympiad, 2015

Email: rentian2 (at) illinois (dot) edu