Yang Feng

Dept. of Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Princeton University
Phone: (609) 258-9433
Email: yangfeng at princeton dot edu

Research Interests

High-dimensional Modelling, Machine Learning, Variable Selection, Nonparametric and Semi-parametric Statistics, Bioinformatics, etc.

Education

Ph.D. candidate, Advisor: Prof. Jianqing Fan 2006-2010 (Expected)

Thesis Topic: High-dimensional Learning and Nonparametric Statistics

Dept. of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University

B.S. in Mathematics, 2006

Special Class for the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China

Selected Publications

Yang Feng, Weiping Ma, Zhanfeng Wang, Zhiliang Ying, and Yaning Yang, Alignment of protein mass spectrometry data by integrated Markov chain shifting method, Statistics and Its Interface, to appear. PDF

Jianqing Fan, Yichao Wu, and Yang Feng, Local quasi-likelihood with a parametric guide, The Annals of Statistics, to appear. PDF

Jianqing Fan and Yang Feng, Discussion: Nonparametric Prediction in Measurement Error Models, Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear.

Jianqing Fan, Yang Feng, and Yichao Wu (2009), Network exploration via the adaptive LASSO and SCAD penalties, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 3, 521-541. Local PDF

Teaching experience

Assistant in Instruction, ORFE 525, Generalized Regression Models. (Spring 2009)

Assistant in Instruction, ORFE 524, Statistical Theory and Methods. (Fall 2008)

Assistant in Instruction, ORFE 245, Engineering Statistics. (Fall 2007, Spring 2008)

Honors and Awards

Wallace Memorial Honorific Fellowship (the highest scholarly excellence in graduate work), Princeton University, 2009-2010

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Laha Travel Award, 2009

Gordon B. and Nancy R. Stewart, Jr. Fellowship, Princeton University, 2006-2007

Other Stuff

Statistics Lab at Princeton
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Last Update: June. 5, 2009.