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Yaming Yu is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Statistics at UC Irvine. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and his B.S. in Mathematics from Beijing University.

Research

His primary interest is Bayesian modeling (applied to astrophysics) and statistical computing methods, such as EM-type algorithms, data augmentation, and Markov chain Monte Carlo.

Courses:

Statistics 67 (Fall 2007): Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Computer Science, Syllabus.

Statistics 201 (Fall 2007): Statistical Methods for Data Analysis I, Syllabus.

Past Courses:

Statistics 260 (Spring 2007): Statistical Inference with Missing Data, Syllabus.

Statistics 67 (Spring 2007): Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Computer Science, Syllabus.

Statistics 200B (Winter 2007): Intermediate Statistics, Syllabus.

Other Interests

He likes Russian literature. Here is his new translation (into Chinese) of Anton Chekhov's Lady with the Pet Dog .