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Dana Yang

People/Faculty
Assistant Professor
Social Statistics
Dana Yang

Contact

129 Garden Ave
1175 Comstock Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

Overview

Dana Yang joined the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences in Spring 2022 after completing a Simons-Berkeley fellowship, where she participated in the Computational Complexity of Statistical Inference program at UC Berkley. Prior to that, she had a stint as a postdoctoral associate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Yang obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Tsinghua University and earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in statistics from Yale University.

Honors and Awards

  • Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship, The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley.

Professional activities

  • Learner-private convex optimization. Presented to Cornell University. Cornell University. 2022.
  • Learner-Private Convex Optimization. Indianapolis. 2022.
  • The Planted Matching Problem. Cornell University. 2022.
  • The Planted Matching Problem. Presented to Cornell University. Cornell University. 2022.