
PhD (University of Oxford)
Professor Wang's research interests include developing statistical methodology for correlated data analysis, robust inferences and model selection and applying advanced techniques that help to solve important problems in medical sciences, environmental research and natural resource management. In applied statistics, Professor Wang has been working with multidiscipline teams on a wide range of problems. Their findings have significant impacts in resource management (fisheries and hydrology) and clinical trials (biostatistics). Professor Wang has been invited on a number of occasions to organize/speak at international conferences and to review journal papers. His work has substantial impacts and scientific innovations in statistical modelling and data science. Professor Wang has published 140+ papers in international journals with more than 3,000 SCI citations (h-index 32, see http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=MNUkTMQAAAAJ&hl=en).Additional information
Positions held
- May 2010– Sept 2015 Chair Professor of Applied Statistics, Director, Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics (CARM), School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland.
- May 2005 – April 2010 Senior Science Leader, CSIRO, Australia.
- Jun 2001 – May 2005 Associate Professor of Statistics, National University of Singapore.
- Jan 2001 – May 2002 Associate Professor, Harvard University.
- Dec 1998 – Dec 2000 Assistant Professor, Harvard University
- 1991 Statistics D.Phil, University of Oxford (Supervised by Prof JC Gittins)
- 1988 Statistics M.Sc, Peking University
- 1986 Mathematics B.Sc, Zhejiang University
- Grant Reviews
- ARC Discovery, Linkage, DECRA
- National Science Foundation, USA
- Alaska Sea Grant
- Thesis and Senior Promotion Assessors
- Editorial Board of Biometrics (2013-present)
- Editorial Board of Environmental Modeling and Assessment (2015-present)
- Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
- Associate Editor of Electronic Journal of Statistics (2009-2011)
- Referee for major journals in statistics and its applications (roughly 15 per year)
- Organize International conferences and workshops
- External Evaluator for the Center for Pharmaceutical Administration and the Center for Drug Evaluation, Singapore.
- Program committee for the international conferences (IBC, IMS)
- Associate Editor of Biometrics
- Advisory Editor of Environmental Modeling & Assessment
- Associate Editor of EJS (2010-2012)
- Duan, Q., Wu, J. & Wang, Y. (2022). Optimal battery capacity in electrical load scheduling. Journal of Energy Storage, 50. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/228602
- Yang, Y., Zhou, H., Gao, Y., Wu, J., Wang, Y. & Fu, L. (2022). Robust penalized extreme learning machine regression with applications in wind speed forecasting. Neural Computing and Applications, 34(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212497
- Wu, J., Wang, Y., Tian, Y., Burrage, K. & Cao, T. (2021). Support vector regression with asymmetric loss for optimal electric load forecasting. Energy, 223. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208195
- Fu, L., Wang, Y. & Cai, F. (2020). A working likelihood approach for robust regression. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 29(12), 3641–3652. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206719
- Jiang, Y., Yuan, Z., Hu, H., Ye, X., Zheng, Z., Wei, Y., Zheng, Y., Wang, Y. & Liu, C. (2020). Differentiating homoploid hybridization from ancestral subdivision in evaluating the origin of the D lineage in wheat. New Phytologist, 228(2), 409–414. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206700
- Jiang, Y., Wang, Y., Fu, L. & Wang, X. (2019). Robust estimation using modified Huber's functions with new tails. Technometrics, 61(1), 111–122. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120369
- Fu, L. & Wang, Y. (2011). Nonparametric rank regression for analyzing water quality concentration data with multiple detection limits. Environmental Science & Technology, 45(4), 1481–1489. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90444
- Jiang, J., Luan, Y. & Wang, Y. (2007). Iterative estimating equations: Linear convergence and asymptotic properties. Annals of Statistics, 35(5), 2233–2260. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90514
- Wang, Y. & Zhu, M. (2006). Rank-based regression for analysis of repeated measures. Biometrika, 93(2), 459–464. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90484
- Brown, B. & Wang, Y. (2005). Standard errors and covariance matrices for smoothed rank estimators. Biometrika, 92(1), 149–158. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90521
- Title
- Generalised Degrees of Freedom and Probabilistic Regularisation
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP160104292
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Robust Inferences for Analysis of Longitudinal Data
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP130100766
- Start year
- 2013
- Keywords
- Rank Statistics; Robust Inferences; Semiparametrics