Department of Statistics, University of Toronto

Fang Yao

Associate Professor 

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Mailing

Address

Department of Statistics

University of Toronto 

100 St. George Street 

Toronto, ON M5S 3G3

Canada

Office

Room 6027B, Sidney Smith Hall

Phone

+1(416) 946-5970

Fax

+1(416) 978-5133 

E-Mail

fyao"AT"utstat[.]toronto[.]edu

 
Research Interest

  • Functional and longitudinal data analysis
  • Nonparametric regression and smoothing method
  • Statistical modeling of high-dimensional and complex data
  • Applications involving functional objects, e.g., evolutional biology, human genetics,  finance and e-commerce, chemical engineering, etc.


Publications               


Software PACE (collection of approaches developed for functional data analysis in Matlab)


Editorial  Boards

  • Associate Editor for Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2012--present.
  • Associate Editor for Statistica Sinica, 2011--present
  • Associate Editor for Canadian Journal of Statistics, 2010--present
  • Associate Editor for Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2009--present
  • Past: Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics (2008--2009)

Teaching: Courses Offered in Winter 2012

  • STA261H1S (L5101)       Probability and Statistics II (Wednesday 7:10pm--10pm, SS1069)
  • STA3000YS                 Advanced Theory of Statistics (Monday 6:10pm--9pm, SS2111)

Education

  • PhD in Statistics, 2003, University of California at Davis
  • MS in Statistics, 2002, University of California at Davis
  • BS in Statistics, 2000, University of Sciences and Technology of China