Bin Yu
Professor

University of California
Department of Statistics
367 Evans Hall #3860
Berkeley CA 94720-3860
phone: 510-642-2021

email: binyu@stat.berkeley.edu
homepage: www.stat.berkeley.edu/~binyu

 

Research Interests:
Machine learning (boosting and support vector machines)
classification and unmixing in remote sensing
internet tomography
Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle and information theory
genomic signal processing.

Education:
Ph.D. (Statistics), University of California, Berkeley, 1990
M.A. (Statistics), University of California, Berkeley, 1987
B.S. (Mathematics), Beijing University, Beijing, China, 1984

Positions:
July 2001 - present, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Statistics Department.
July 1997 - June 2001, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Statistics Department.
July 1997 - June 2000, Member of Technical Staff, Math Center, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
July 1992 - June 1997, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Statistics Department.
May 1996, Consultant, Lucent Technologies.
Spring,1993, Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University, Statistics Department.
July 1990 - Dec. 1992, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Statistics Department.
Mid-July - Mid-August, 1992, Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems.
Fall 1991, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.
May-June 1990, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Statistics Department.

Professional Affiliations:
Fellow, IEEE; Fellow, IMS; Member of ASA

Editorial Services:
Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics (1998--2000, 2001-2003)
Associate Editor for Statistica Sinica (1996--1998, 1999-2001)
Action Editor for Journal of Machine Learning Research (2001- )
Guest Co-Editor for the Special Issue on Bioinformatics, Statistica Sinica , 2001.
Co-editor of Nonlinear Estimation and Classification, Springer, 2002.