Professor You-Gan Wang

  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

Education

• 1991 Statistics D.Phil, University of Oxford (Supervised by Prof JC Gittins)
• 1988 Statistics M.Sc, Peking University
• 1986 Mathematics B.Sc, Zhejiang University

Professional services

• Grant Reviews
• ARC Discovery, Linkage, DECRA
• National Science Foundation, USA
• Alaska Sea Grant
• Thesis and Senior Promotion Assessors

   Professional and administrative experiences

• 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)

Editorial boards

• Associate Editor of Biometrics
• Advisory Editor of Environmental Modeling & Assessment
• Associate Editor of EJS (2010-2012)

Research Grants and Projects New ARC Discovery Grant (2016-2018) (Sole CI): Generalised degree of freedom and probablistic regulisation (DP160104292) ($300,000). Jun 2013-Jun 2016 ARC Discovery Grant (Sole CI): Robust inferences for analysis of longitudinal data (DP130100766) ($330,000).  an 2012-Dec 2014 ARC Linkage Grant (one of the Chief Investigators): Multi-scale, two-phase flow in complex coal seam systems ($377,800). Jul 2007 – Jun 2008 FRDC grant (Principal Investigator): Calculating recent foreign fishing vessel numbers us­ing established estimators based on coastwatch surveillance and appre­hension data ($93,471). Jul 2006 – Dec 2006 FRDC grant (Principal Investigator): Estimating Reliable Foreign Fishing Vessel Fishing Effort from Coastwatch Surveillance and Apprehension Data ($143,358). Mar 2004 – Feb 2005 Chief Investigator of “Phase I/II designs for multiple out­ comes” (S$93,685) . Jun 2003 – May 2006 Chief Investigator of “Robust Methods for Analysis of Lon­gitudinal Data” (S$113,054) . Apr 2002 – Mar 2004 Chief Investigator of “Analysis of Clustered Data Analysis” (S$32,500). Oct 1998 – Apr 2001 Protocol development and data analysis for AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG 377, ACTG 225, ACTG381, ACTG391, ACTG1018, ACTG1012). Oct 1998 – Apr 2001: Statistical Modeling and Parameter Estimation in AIDS Clinical Trials  (R01:AI24643, PI: S. Lagakos). Apr 1997 – Mar 2000 Senior Statistical Consultant, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen­ter, New York, on Parameter Estimation in Sequential Clinical Trials (NIH Grant CA74207). Jul 1998 – Dec 1998 Coinvestigator of “Risk analysis for the Northern Prawn Fishery” (A$620,000). Jul 1995 – Dec 1997 Principal Investigator, of “Estimation of survival and growth for Aus­tralian Prawn Fisheries” (A$220,000). Jul 1992 – Jun 1997 Population dynamics and Bioeconomic study for Northern Prawn Fishery, CSIRO. Oct 1991 – Jun 1992 Cohort and Case-Control study on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; Cancer Research; Children Injury Prevention and Statistical Consult­ing at Menzies Centre for population Health Research, University of Tasmania. Sep 1988 – May 1991 Study for the D.Phil on Decision Theory under supervision of Professor J.C. Gittins, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

• 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