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Yang is a final-year Ph.D.
student in the Department
of Operations Research and
Financial Engineering at
Princeton University,
advised by Professor
Jianqing Fan and Professor
Han Liu. Before attending
Princeton, He obtained a
Bachelor of Mathematics
degree from Tsinghua
University. His research
interests lie in the
interface between machine
learning, statistics, and
optimization. The primary
goal of his research is to
design a new generation of
machine learning
algorithms for large-scale
and multi-agent
decision-making problems,
with both statistical and
computational guarantees.
Besides, he is also
interested in the
application of
learning-based
decision-making algorithms
to real-world problems
that arise in robotics,
personalized medicine, and
computational social
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University of Chicago
Department of Statistics
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