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Mathematics

D-Index
50
Citations
20259
World Ranking
1049
National Ranking
487

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
52
Citations
20435
World Ranking
3527
National Ranking
1034

Overview

Ming Yuan is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has a research profile spanning various fields within engineering and computer science. Their work encompasses significant contributions across multiple disciplines, including artificial intelligence, computational mathematics, computational mechanics, molecular biology, and statistics and probability.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of advanced and technical areas. These include:

  • Tensor decomposition and applications
  • Sparse and compressive sensing techniques
  • Blind source separation techniques
  • Statistical methods and inference
  • Financial markets and investment strategies
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Biosensors and analytical detection

Ming Yuan has published research extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, The Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). These publications reflect a consistent output in both theoretical and applied statistical research alongside interdisciplinary engineering domains.

Notable recent papers include:

  • A label-free aptasensor for turn-on fluorescent detection of ochratoxin a based on SYBR gold and single walled carbon nanohorns, 2020, Food Control
  • Statistically optimal and computationally efficient low rank tensor completion from noisy entries, 2021, The Annals of Statistics
  • ISLET: Fast and Optimal Low-Rank Tensor Regression via Importance Sketching, 2020, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science
  • Controlling the minimal feature sizes in adjoint optimization of nanophotonic devices using b-spline surfaces, 2020, Optics Express
  • Statistical Inferences of Linear Forms for Noisy Matrix Completion, 2020, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)

Ming Yuan has collaborated frequently with a core group of coauthors. The most frequent collaborators include Arnab Auddy, Dong Xia, Anru R. Zhang, Guofu Zhou, and Jungjun Choi. These repeated collaborations suggest a focused research network within the domains of statistics, tensor methods, and applied mathematics.

Best Publications

  • Model selection and estimation in regression with grouped variables

    Ming Yuan;Yi Lin

  • Model selection and estimation in the Gaussian graphical model

    Ming Yuan;Yi Lin

  • Composite quantile regression and the oracle model selection theory

    Y. Hui Zou;Ming Yuan

  • High Dimensional Semiparametric Gaussian Copula Graphical Models.

    Han Liu;Fang Han;Ming Yuan;John D. Lafferty

  • High Dimensional Inverse Covariance Matrix Estimation via Linear Programming

    Ming Yuan

  • On the non-negative garrotte estimator

    Ming Yuan;Yi Lin

  • Dimension reduction and coefficient estimation in multivariate linear regression

    Ming Yuan;Ali Ekici;Zhaosong Lu;Renato Monteiro

  • CARM1 Methylates Chromatin Remodeling Factor BAF155 to Enhance Tumor Progression and Metastasis

    Lu Wang;Zibo Zhao;Mark B. Meyer;Sandeep Saha

  • A Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Approach to Functional Linear Regression

    Ming Yuan;T. Tony Cai

  • On Tensor Completion via Nuclear Norm Minimization

    Ming Yuan;Cun-Hui Zhang

  • Efficient Empirical Bayes Variable Selection and Estimation in Linear Models

    Ming Yuan;Yi Lin

  • A direct approach to sparse discriminant analysis in ultra-high dimensions

    Qing Mai;Hui Zou;Ming Yuan

  • Minimax and Adaptive Prediction for Functional Linear Regression

    T. Tony Cai;Ming Yuan

  • Statistical methods for expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping.

    C. M. Kendziorski;M. Chen;M. Yuan;H. Lan

  • SPARSITY IN MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING

    Vladimir Koltchinskii;Ming Yuan

  • GACV for quantile smoothing splines

    Ming Yuan

  • Learning Networks of Heterogeneous Influence

    Nan Du;Le Song;Ming Yuan;Alex J. Smola

  • Doubly Robust Learning for Estimating Individualized Treatment with Censored Data

    Ying-Qi Zhao;Donglin Zeng;Eric B Laber;Rui Song

  • Nanophotonic media for artificial neural inference

    Erfan Khoram;Ang Chen;Dianjing Liu;Lei Ying

  • Quantitating the cell: turning images into numbers with ImageJ.

    Ellen T Arena;Ellen T Arena;Curtis T Rueden;Mark C Hiner;Shulei Wang

  • Classification Methods with Reject Option Based on Convex Risk Minimization

    Ming Yuan;Marten Wegkamp

  • The Nonparanormal SKEPTIC

    Han Liu;Fang Han;Ming Yuan;Larry Wasserman

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommaso Cai
Tommaso Cai University of Pennsylvania
Zongfu Yu
Zongfu Yu University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hui Zou
Hui Zou University of Minnesota
Han Liu
Han Liu Northwestern University
Larry Wasserman
Larry Wasserman Carnegie Mellon University
Cun-Hui Zhang
Cun-Hui Zhang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul Ahlquist
Paul Ahlquist University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christina Kendziorski
Christina Kendziorski University of Wisconsin–Madison
Renato D. C. Monteiro
Renato D. C. Monteiro Georgia Institute of Technology

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