Yang Feng

708 Broadway, Room 415
Department of Biostatistics
New York University
New York, NY 10003
Email: yf31@nyu.edu
Academic Appointments
- Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, Department of Biostatistics, School of Global Public Health, New York University
- 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
- Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)
- 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
- Fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA)
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (ISI)
Research Support
- NSF Grant DMS-2324489: Collaborative Research: New Theory and Methods for High-Dimensional Multi-Task and Transfer Learning Inference
news
Mar 15, 2025 | Paper accepted at AoS |
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Nov 27, 2024 | A draft of my book on R Programming is now available |
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