Yanyuan Ma

Yanyuan Ma is a Chinese-American mathematical statistician whose research interests include semiparametric models, dimension reduction, selection bias, and skew-symmetric distributions. She is a professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University.[1]

Education and career

Ma has a 1994 bachelor's degree in mathematics from Peking University.[1][2] She began her doctoral studies at Stanford University, but switched after a year to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[2] where she completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1999.[1] Her dissertation, Studies in Matrix Perturbation and Robust Statistics, was jointly supervised by mathematician and computer scientist Alan Edelman and by statistician Marc G. Genton.[3]

After working in industry, and then as a postdoctoral researcher beginning in 2002, she took an assistant professorship at Texas A&M University in 2004. From 2006 to 2008 she was a professor at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, but she returned to Texas A&M as an associate professor in 2008,[2] bringing her doctoral student Tanya P. Garcia with her.[4] At Texas A&M, she was promoted to full professor in 2011. She became a professor of statistics at the University of South Carolina,[3][5] from 2014 until 2016, when she moved again to her present position at Pennsylvania State University.[2]

Recognition

Ma was named as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2017, "for influential and original contributions to the development of dimension reduction techniques, and to semiparametric theory and methodology".[6] She was also elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Yanyuan Ma, Professor of Statistics", People, Penn State Department of Statistics, retrieved 2024-06-02
  2. ^ a b c d Semiparametric Learning: A Summer School of Mathematics for Data Science at the Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, July 2021, retrieved 2024-06-02; see "Bio" section
  3. ^ a b Yanyuan Ma at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Mieux combattre les incendies de forêts grâce à un logiciel neuchâtelois", RTN (in French), February 25, 2008, retrieved 2024-06-01; Garcia, Tanya Pamela (2011), Efficient semiparametric estimators for biological, genetic, and measurement error applications (Doctoral dissertation), Texas A&M University, hdl:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9700
  5. ^ Yanyuan Ma, Professor of Statistics, University of South Carolina, retrieved 2024-06-02
  6. ^ 2017 IMS Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 15, 2017, retrieved 2024-06-02
  7. ^ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2024-06-02