Yanjun Han
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@yanjun_han
Assistant Professor of math and data science @NYU_Courant and @NYUDataScience | Former PhD @stanford_ee, postdoc @SimonsInstitute @mit | views are my own
CDS Asst. Prof. Yanjun Han (@yanjun_han) and colleagues at NYU and MIT explains why transformers trained on synthetic data excel at empirical Bayes (EB) problems. By using universal priors, these models adapt to new data through posterior contraction. arxiv.org/abs/2602.15136
Congratulations to Prof. Weijie Su (@weijie444) from our Statistics and Data Science Department on being named the recipient of this year's Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (@COPSSNews) Presidents' Award: whr.tn/3ZToJu9 The honor is given annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. It's jointly sponsored by five statistical societies: @AmstatNews, @ENAR_ibs, @InstMathStat, @SSC_stat, and @WNAR_ibs.
New preprint out: arxiv.org/abs/2509.07355! For the good old problem of distribution estimation, we use empirical Bayes and nonparametric MLE, two cornerstones of 20th century statistics, to propose a new, efficient, parameter-free, and competitively optimal estimator. [1/3]
Yanjun Han (@yanjun_han) will be joining CDS this fall as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science. Read about Yanjun and his work on the mathematics of data science on the CDS blog! nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-facul…
Applications for the NYU Data Science PhD program are now open! To apply/find more information, please visit our PhD Admissions page: cds.nyu.edu/phd-admissions…. We're excited to welcome the next cohort of leading researchers in data science! #datascience
