Yian Ma

Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego

  • Joined February 2019

Names

Yian Ma (Preferred)

Emails

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@ucsd.edu (Confirmed)

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)
2020Present
 
Postdoc
University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
20172019
 
PhD student
University of Washington, Seattle (uw.edu)
20122017
 
Undergrad student
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (sjtu.edu.cn)
20082012
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisee
20222024
 
Postdoc Advisor
20172019
 
PhD Advisor
20122017
 

Expertise

Bayesian inference, MCMC, stochastic gradient MCMC
Present
 
Scalable inference, stochastic gradient methods, variance reduction
Present
 
Time series, hidden Markov model, state space models
Present
 
Sequential decision making
Present
 

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