Youngdeok Hwang

Youngdeok Hwang is an assistant professor of statistics in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information System and Statistics in the Zicklin School of Business. His main research interest is on statistical modeling and experimental design for management and optimization of large scale complex physics systems. Prior to joining Baruch College, he was an assistant professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul and Research staff member at IBM TJ Watson Research.

Academic Degrees

• PhD, Statistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2012.
• MS in Statistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2010.
• BA in Applied Statistics and BA Economics, Yonsei University, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification, Analytics in Technology, Business and Service, Spatio-Temporal Statistics, Design of Experiments

Publications

• Zhang, Q. and Hwang, Y. (2019+). Sequential Model-based Optimization for Continuous Inputs with Finite Decision Space. Technometrics. In Press.
• Xu, X., Hwang, Y., Kim, T., Wang, F., Wang, X., Chien, P. (2019+). Level-expansion: A Statistical Sequential Design Methodology with Application to Nanomaterial Synthesis. Journal of Quality Technology, In Press.
• Sun, F., Gramacy, R. B., Haaland, B., Lu, S. and Hwang, Y. (2019). Synthesizing Simulation and Field Data of Solar Irradiance. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 12, 311-324.
• Hwang, Y., Kim, H., Chang, W., Yeo, K. and Kim, Y. (2019). Bayesian Pollution Source Identification via an Inverse Physics Model. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 134, 76-92.
• Hwang, Y., Lu, S. and J. Kim (2018). Bottom-up Estimation and Top-down Prediction: Solar Energy Prediction Combining Information from Multiple Sources. Annals of Applied Statistics, 12, 2096-2120.
• Hwang, Y., Barut, E., and Yeo, K. (2018). Statistical-physical Estimation of Pollution Emission. Statistica Sinica, 28, 921-940.
• Hwang, Y., Wright, S., and Hanlon, B. (2017). Estimation and Testing Problems in Auditory Neuroscience via Clustering. Biometrics, 73, 1010–1017.
• Hwang, Y., He, X. and Qian, P. Z. G. (2016). Sliced Orthogonal Array Based Latin Hypercube Designs. Technometrics, 58, 50–61.
• Liu, X., Yeo, K., Hwang, Y., Singh, J. and Kalagnanam, J. (2016). A Statistical Modeling Approach for Air Quality Data Based on Physical Dispersion Processes and Its Application to Ozone Modeling. Annals of Applied Statistics, 10, 756–785.
• Jiang, H., Schörgendorfer, A., Hwang, Y. and Amemiya, Y. (2015). A Practical Approach to Spatio-Temporal Analysis. Statistica Sinica, 25, 369-384.
• Qian, P. Z. G., Ai, M., Hwang, Y., and Su, H. (2014). Asymmetric Nested Lattice Samples. Technometrics, 56, 46–54.

Awards

• Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences Award, American Statistical Society, 2018.
• Career Development Award, Korean International Statistical Society, 2016.
• Army Commendation Medal, United States Department of the Army, 2004.