Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications

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Fan Yang is an Associate Professor of YMSC at Tsinghua University and BIMSA. Prior to joining YMSC and BIMSA, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Pennsylvania from 2019 to 2022. He received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019, the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014, and the Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in 2009. His research interests include probability and statistics, with a focus on random matrix theory and its applications to mathematical physics, high-dimensional statistics, and machine learning. He has published multiple papers in leading journals in mathematics and statistics, including Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Annals of Probability, Probability Theory and Related Fields, and Annals of Statistics.