Dana Yang
People/Faculty
Assistant Professor
Social Statistics
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.
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.
Honors and Awards
- Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship, The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley. 2021