Yun Wei
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Yun Wei

Google Scholar ID: jvjm95AAAAAJ
University of Texas at Dallas
statisticsmachine learninglatent variable modelsinformation theory
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Publications
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A Bayesian approach to learning mixtures of nonparametric components
2025
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Distributional Evaluation of Generative Models via Relative Density Ratio
2025
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Large Deviations for Sequential Tests of Statistical Sequence Matching
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • Publications:
  • - "Distributional Evaluation of Generative Models via Relative Density Ratio" (Oct 2025)
  • - Updated version of "Minimum Φ-distance estimators for finite mixing measures" (Sep 2025)
  • - "Large Deviations for Sequential Tests of Statistical Sequence Matching" (Jun 2025)
Research Experience
  • Was a postdoc at SAMSI and the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University, mentored by Sayan Mukherjee, Hau-tieng Wu, and Eric Laber. Currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Science, University of Texas at Dallas.
Education
  • Ph.D. from the Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics program at the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, supervised by Alfred Hero and XuanLong Nguyen; B.S. from Nankai University.
Background
  • Mainly interested in foundations of AI, data sciences, statistics, and related fields. Broadly interested in statistics, optimization, and machine learning.
Miscellany
  • Email: yun.wei@utdallas.edu
  • Office location: FO 2.604D