Department of Statistics, University of Toronto

Fang Yao
Associate Professor
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Mailing
Address
Department of Statistics
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Canada
Office Room 6027B, Sidney Smith Hall
Phone +1(416) 946-5970
Fax +1(416) 978-5133
E-Mail fyao"AT"utstat[.]toronto[.]edu

Research Interest

  • Functional and longitudinal data analysis
  • Nonparametric regression and smoothing methods
  • Statistical modeling of high-dimensional and complex data
  • Applications involving functional objects, e.g., evolutional biology, human genetics,  finance and e-commerce, chemical engineering, etc.

Publications

Software Package: PACE (a collection of approaches for functional data analysis)


Teaching (on sabbatical leave from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011)

I will offer a graduate course on Functional Data Analysis during Winter 2011 in the Department of Statistics at University of British Columbia.

Editorial Services

  • Associate Editor for Statistica Sinica, 2011--present
  • Associate Editor for Canadian Journal of Statistics, 2010--present
  • Associate Editor for Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2009--present
  • Past Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics, 2003, University of California, Davis
  • M.S. in Statistics, 2002, University of California, Davis
  • B.S. in Statistics, 2000, University of Sciences and Technology of China