Bin Yu () is a Chinese-American statistician. She is currently Chancellor's Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the

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.Faculty biography
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Biography

Yu earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1984 from

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charte ...

, and went on to pursue graduate studies in statistics at Berkeley, earning a master's degree in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1990. Her dissertation, ''Some Results on Empirical Processes and Stochastic Complexity'', was jointly supervised by

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and

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. After postdoctoral studies at the

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and an assistant professorship at the

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, she returned to Berkeley as a faculty member in 1993, was tenured in 1997, and became Chancellor's Professor in 2006. She also worked at

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from 1998 to 2000, while on leave from Berkeley, and has held visiting positions at several other universities. She chaired the Department of Statistics at Berkeley from 2009 to 2012, and was president of the

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in 2014.

Research

Yu's work leverages computational developments to solve scientific problems by combining statistical machine learning approaches with the domain expertise of many collaborators, spanning many fields including statistics, machine learning, neuroscience, genomics, and remote sensing. Her recent work has focused on solidifying a vision for data science, including a framework for veridical data science and a framework for interpretable machine learning. Yu has also developed a PCS (predictability, computability, and stability) framework for veridical data science to unifies, streamlines and expands on ideas and best practices of machine learning and statistics. Yu has received recent news coverage regarding her veridical data science framework, investigations into the theoretical foundations of deep learning, and work forecasting COVID-19 severity in the US. Other research included research in the area of statistical machine learning methods/algorithms (and associated statistical inference problems) such as dictionary learning, non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), EM and deep learning (CNNs and LSTMs), and heterogeneous effect estimation in randomized experiments (X-learner).

Honors and awards

Yu is a fellow of the

, the

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, the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuous ...

, the

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, the

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, and the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...

. In 2012, she was the Tukey Lecturer of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. In 2018, she was awarded the

Elizabeth L. Scott Award The Elizabeth L. Scott Award is an biennial award given (in even years) by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies and named in honor of Elizabeth Scott, an American statistician. This award recognizes an individual who exemplifies ...

. She was invited to give the Breiman lecture at NeurIPS 2019 (formally known as NIPS), on the topic o
veridical data science

References

External links

A conversation with Professor Bin Yu
By Tao Shi, July 9, 2013 {{DEFAULTSORT:Yu, Bin Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women statisticians Chinese statisticians Chinese women mathematicians Chinese mathematicians Peking University alumni UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellows of the American Statistical Association Mathematicians from Heilongjiang Educators from Heilongjiang People from Harbin 21st-century American women Mathematical statisticians