Yabo Niu
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Houston
Email: yniu4 [at] uh.edu
with joint appointment
Department of Health Systems & Population Health Sciences
Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine
I am currently an Assistant Professor and Presidential Frontier Faculty in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston. I have a joint appointment in the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine's Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences. I graduated from Texas A&M University in 2019 with a Ph.D. degree in Statistics under the supervision of Dr. Bani K. Mallick and Dr. Debdeep Pati. After that, I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University from Fall 2019 to Summer 2022.
Education
Ph.D. in Statistics, 2019
Texas A&M University, United States
B.S. in Statistics, 2013
Nankai University, China
Research Interests
Graphical Models
Bayesian Nonparametrics
Bayesian Variable Selection
Classification and Regression Trees
Recent News
(June 2023) Article on Covariate-Assisted Bayesian Graphical Learning for Heterogeneous Data accepted at JASA.
A new course on Bayesian Statistics (MATH 6393) will be offered by me in Spring 2024.
2-year postdoc position available with research focus on Bayesian graphical models and networks.