Yuling Yan

I am a Norbert Wiener Postdoctoral Associate in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) at MIT, mentored by Professor Philippe Rigollet and Professor Martin Wainwright. I am also affiliated to the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).

Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. degree at Princeton University in 2023, advised by Professor Yuxin Chen and Professor Jianqing Fan. I received my bachelor's degree from Peking University in 2018.

I will join Department of Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor in Fall 2024.

Research interests: high-dimensional statistics, non-convex optimization, reinforcement learning, optimal transport as well as their applications in economics and social sciences.

Contact:
E17-481 at IDSS, 32-D740 at LIDS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

E-mail: yulingy [@] mit [DOT] edu