Yanyuan Ma
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Yanyuan Ma is a Chinese-American mathematical statistician whose research interests include semiparametric models, dimension reduction, selection bias, and skew-symmetric distributions. She is a professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University.[1]
Ma has a 1994 bachelor's degree in mathematics from Peking University.[1][2] She began her doctoral studies at Stanford University, but switched after a year to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[2] where she completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1999.[1] Her dissertation, Studies in Matrix Perturbation and Robust Statistics, was jointly supervised by mathematician and computer scientist Alan Edelman and by statistician Marc G. Genton.[3]
After working in industry, and then as a postdoctoral researcher beginning in 2002, she took an assistant professorship at Texas A&M University in 2004. From 2006 to 2008 she was a professor at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, but she returned to Texas A&M as an associate professor in 2008,[2] bringing her doctoral student Tanya P. Garcia with her.[4] At Texas A&M, she was promoted to full professor in 2011. She became a professor of statistics at the University of South Carolina,[3][5] from 2014 until 2016, when she moved again to her present position at Pennsylvania State University.[2]
