Yaonan Zhang

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Statisics with Professor Eric D. Kolaczyk , at the Department of Mathmatics and Statistics , Boston University . My research area is statistical analysis of network data. I am interested in the applications in social media and marketing.

Education

• Boston University , Boston, MA
  • Ph.D. student in Mathematics, 2010 - present
• University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI
  • M.S. in Financial Engineering, Dec. 2009
• Wuhan University , Wuhan, China
  • B.A. in Ecomomics and Mathematics, Jun. 2008

Research

• Zhang, Y., Kolaczyk, E.D., and Spencer, B.D. (2014). Estimating network degree distributions under sampling: an inverse problem, with applications to monitoring social media networks . Accepted. Annals of Applied Statistics.
• Zhang, Y., Lappas, T., Crovella, M., and Kolaczyk, E.D. (2014). Online Ratings: Convergence Towards a Positive Perspective? Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
• Zhang, Y., Eden, U., and Kolaczyk, E.D. State-space modeling of review ratings as a marked point process. In Preparation.

Teaching Experience

• MA581 Probability, Fall 2010
• MA124 Calculus II, Spring 2011

Courses

• Fall 2010
  • MA575 Linear Model
  • MA779 Probability I
  • MA781 Estimation Theory
• Spring 2011
  • MA576 Generalied Linear Model
  • MA780 Probability II
  • MA782 Hypothesis Testing
• Fall 2011
  • MA750 Advanced Statistical Methods
• Spring 2012
  • MA751 Statistical Learning
• Fall 2012
  • MA589 Computational Statistics

Contact

Yaonan Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Boston University
111 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

Office: MCS 237
Phone: (637) 358-2392
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