Yuting Wei

Yuting Wei is currently an assistant professor in the Statistics and Data Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that, she was a Stein Fellow at Stanford University, and she received her Ph.D. in statistics at University of California, Berkeley working with Martin Wainwright and Aditya Guntuboyina. She was the recipient of the 2018 Erich L. Lehmann Citation from the Berkeley statistics department for her Ph.D. dissertation in theoretical statistics. Her research interests include high-dimensional and non-parametric statistics, statistical machine learning, and reinforcement learning.

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, 2018
• Advisors: Martin Wainwright, Aditya Guntuboyina
• B.S. in Statistics, Peking University, 2013
• B.A. in Economics, Peking University, 2013

Academic Positions Held

• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science,
• Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2021-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science,
• Carnegie Mellon University, 2019-2021
• Stein’s Fellow / Lecturer, Statistics Department,
• Stanford University, 2018-2019