About me:

My name is Xiaoyi Yang and I am an Assistant Teaching Faculty in Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Prior to joining NEU, I was an Assistant Professor in Data Science in the Department of Mathematics at Creighton University.

I was a Ph.D.  candidate in the Department of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, I studied in University of Wisconsin-Madison, double major in Math and Statistics, minor in Computer Science. Check the Teaching page for my teaching/mentoring experience and education projects. 

I am interested in the application of Social Science on Statistics, including Sociology, Finance, Education and Sports. My work is mainly on the development and improvement of methodology on real life data and model. My thesis, co-advising by Rebecca Nugent and Nynke Niezink (Both in Dept of Statistics & Data Science, CMU)  is on recovering social networks from text data with covariate information. My previous project was working with Rebecca Nugent and Jared Murray (Dept of Information, Risk, & Operations Mgmt, UT Austin) on a Historical Record Linkage project. Check the Research page for project details and related conferences.

If you are interested in working on a statistics/data science project with me, feel free to read the Student Project Ideas to see if anything is interested to you. Also, feel free to read the Blog about some of my reflections on statistics and my life. 

Outside the academic work, I am a huge cat lover (check the Contact Me page for my cat Rainne) and a model collector (Yes, physical ones).

My CV is attached.