Yihong Wu

James A. Attwood Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science (Administrative assistant: Cheri Cercone)
Yale University

📧    yihong.wu@yale.edu
✉ Kline Tower, Room 1017
219 Prospect St
New Haven, CT 06511

Note: I am no longer the co-DGS. For matters related to the S&DS graduate program, please contact Profs. Jay Emerson and Zhou Fan.

Research interests

I am broadly interested in the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of high-dimensional statistics, information theory, and optimization.

Recent papers

Tianze Jiang, Yanjun Han, and Yihong Wu, "Prediction from compression for models with infinite memory, with applications to hidden Markov and renewal processes", Apr 2024.

Andre Wibisono, Yihong Wu, and Kaylee Yingxi Yang, "Optimal score estimation via empirical Bayes smoothing", Feb 2024.

Leon Lufkin, Yihong Wu, and Jiaming Xu, "Sharp Information-Theoretic Thresholds for Shuffled Linear Regression", Feb 2024. [Congrats Leon on the Hartigan UG Prize!]

Zhou Fan, Leying Guan, Yandi Shen, and Yihong Wu, "Gradient flows for empirical Bayes in high-dimensional linear models", Dec 2023.

Yutong Nie and Yihong Wu, "Large-scale multiple testing: Fundamental limits of false discovery rate control and compound oracle?", Feb 2023.

Yandi Shen and Yihong Wu, "Empirical Bayes estimation: When does -modeling beat -modeling in theory (and in practice)?", Nov 2022.