Yuling Yan
Scholar

Yuling Yan

Google Scholar ID: yYE8Xo8AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
StatisticsOptimizationReinforcement LearningDiffusion Model
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
905
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
14
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
20
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers in journals and conferences such as Annals of Statistics, NeurIPS, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; received the IMS Lawrence D. Brown Award in 2024.
Research Experience
  • Assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison starting Aug 2024; previously a Norbert Wiener Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, working with Professor Philippe Rigollet and Professor Martin Wainwright.
Education
  • Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2023, advised by Professor Yuxin Chen and Professor Jianqing Fan; Bachelor's degree from Peking University in 2018.
Background
  • Research interests: statistics, optimization, mathematics of data science, and their applications.