Welcome to Dr. Yabo Niu's Statistics Lab!

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, 2014 - 2019

Texas A&M University, United States

B.S. in Statistics, 2009 - 2013

Nankai University, China

Research Interests

Graphical Models
Bayesian Nonparametrics
Bayesian Variable Selection
Classification and Regression Trees

Recent News

Summer 2024: Ji Shi will be joining as my postdoc this fall, jointly supervised by Dr. Demetrio Labate (University of Houston) and Dr. Peng Zhao (University of Delaware). Welcome to the group, Ji!
June 2024: My paper "Covariate-Assisted Bayesian Graphical Learning for Heterogeneous Data" won the 2024 JASA Reproducibility Award!
Spring 2024: A new course on Bayesian Statistics (MATH 6397) was offered by me in Spring 2024.
June 2023: Article on Covariate-Assisted Bayesian Graphical Learning for Heterogeneous Data accepted at JASA.
A 2-year postdoc position available with research focus on Bayesian graphical models and networks. Position filled.