Scholar
Yaqi Duan
Google Scholar ID: T99vQCsAAAAJ
Department of Technology, Operations and Statistics at NYU Stern
Citations & Impact
Citations
699
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
18
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Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'Taming “data-hungry” reinforcement learning? Stability in continuous state-action spaces' posted on arXiv in January 2024 and accepted by NeurIPS 2024; Paper 'Optimal policy evaluation using kernel-based temporal difference methods' accepted by the Annals of Statistics in May 2024; Received first NSF grant in August 2024; Paper 'Adaptive and robust multi-task learning' accepted by the Annals of Statistics in December 2023; Honored with the 2023 IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award in October 2022; Delivered multiple talks at academic seminars and conferences.
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems at MIT from 2022 to 2023; Joined NYU Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics in August 2023.
Education
- Ph.D. from the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University in 2022; Postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems at MIT from 2022 to 2023, working with Professor Martin J. Wainwright; B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University.
Background
- Primary research interests: Machine learning, particularly statistical aspects of reinforcement learning. Profile: Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at Stern School of Business, New York University.
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