Scholar
Mengxin Yu
Google Scholar ID: xVV-d6MAAAAJ
Washington University (WUSTL)
Citations & Impact
Citations
272
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
20
Co-authors
15
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers, such as 'Test-Negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution' and 'SymmPI: Predictive Inference for Data with Group Symmetries'; Won several awards, including the IMS New Researcher Travel Award in 2024.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, WUSTL, since July 2025; Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, from 2023 to 2025.
Education
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, WUSTL, since July 2025; Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, advised by Professor Dylan S. Small, from 2023 to 2025; Ph.D. from the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (Statistics and Machine Learning Track) at Princeton University in May 2023, advised by Professor Jianqing Fan; B.S. with summa cum laude (Guo Muoruo Scholarship, <1%) from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2018.
Background
- Research interests lie at the intersection of estimation, inference, and decision-making, with applications spanning public health, machine learning, and social science. Particularly focused on developing novel statistical methods and their applications in AI and machine learning, human preference learning, causal inference, and data-driven decision-making.
Miscellany
- Amateur photographer, personal photography gallery link: https://skylerhallinan.com/photography
