Yuling Yao

  • Assistant Professor
  • Statistics and Data Sciences
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Biography

Yuing Yao joined the University of Texas at Austin in 2024. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Flatiron Institute. His research focuses on Bayesian methodology, such as model evaluation and averaging, and scalable computation in statistics, such as MCMC, variational inference, and simulation-based inference. He apply statistical modeling to various fields such as environmental health, social science and physics.

Research

Fields of Interest

  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Statistical Computing
  • Statistical/Machine Learning
  • Monte Carlo and MCMC Methods

Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics, Columbia University, 2021