Miaoyan Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics and holds faculty affiliations with the Institute for Foundations of Data Science and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging. Her research focuses on the intersection of statistics, machine learning, optimization and their applications in biomedical and social sciences. Before joining UW–Madison, Professor Wang did a joint Simons postdoctoral fellowship in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been honored with the National Science Foundation CAREER award and four Best Student Paper awards (with her as advisor) from the American Statistical Association and the New England Statistical Society.
A word from Dean Eric M. Wilcots:
Professor Wang has an outstanding record of scholarship at the intersection of statistics, machine learning and genetics. She has made major contributions in understanding trade-offs between statistical sample complexity and computational complexity, including work in the areas of tensor decomposition, tensor completion, and tensor regression and classification.