Yang Feng

708 Broadway, Room 415
Department of Biostatistics
New York University
New York, NY 10003
Email: yf31@nyu.edu
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Global Public Health, New York University
- Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2025)
- Affiliate Faculty, Center for Data Science, New York University
- Affiliate Faculty, PRIISM, New York University
Research Interests
Machine Learning
- Transfer learning
- Multi-task learning
- Federated learning
- Neyman-Pearson classification
- Causal inference
- Deep learning
High-Dimensional Statistics
- Variable selection
- Variable screening
- Gaussian graphical models
Network Models
- Community detection
- Network embedding
Applications
- Electronic health records
- Genomics
- Epidemiology
- Neuroscience
- Social networks
- Computer vision
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Editorial Activities
- Review Editor (2026–2028), Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) and The American Statistician (TAS)
- Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Theory and Methods
- Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics (JCGS)
Selected Honors
- Teaching Excellence Award, NYU School of Global Public Health, 2024
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2023
- Fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA), 2022
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (ISI), 2017
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2016
Research Support
- NSF Grant DMS-2324489: Collaborative Research: New Theory and Methods for High-Dimensional Multi-Task and Transfer Learning Inference
news
Sep 14, 2025 | Review Editor Appointment for JASA and TAS |
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Sep 12, 2025 | Sabbatical at Wharton |
Sep 11, 2025 | Paper accepted at JMLR |
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