Zhigang Yao

Zhigang Yao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also holds a courtesy joint appointment with the Department of Mathematics at NUS. He is a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute of Data Science (IDS) at NUS. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Pittsburgh in 2011. His thesis advisors are Bill Eddy at Carnegie Mellon and Leon Gleser at University of Pittsburgh. He has been an Assistant Professor at NUS from 2014-2020. Before joining NUS, he has been working with Victor Panaretos as a post-doc researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) from 2011-2014.

Companies

• Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2020)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2014 — 2020)
• Postdoctoral Researcher École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (2011 — 2014)

Education

• PhD University of Pittsburgh (2006 — 2011)
• Training Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (2008 — 2011)