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Level: Graduate

Language: Chinese

Lecturer Intro

Fan Yang is an Associate Professor of YMSC at Tsinghua University and an Associate Research Fellow at BIMSA. Prior to joining YMSC and BIMSA, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Pennsylvania from 2019 to 2022. He received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019, the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014, and the Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in 2009. His research interests include probability and statistics, with a focus on random matrix theory and its applications to mathematical physics, high-dimensional statistics, and machine learning. He has published multiple papers in leading journals in mathematics and statistics, including Communications in Mathematical Physics, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Annals of Statistics, and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Lecturer Email: yangf.cuhk@gmail.com

TA: Dr. Qi Hou, houqi@bimsa.cn