Bin Yu
 
 
Biography
 
Education
B.S.in Mathematics, Peking University, 1984
M.S. in Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, 1987
Ph.D. in Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, 1990
 
Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1990-1993
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Science Research Institute at Berkeley Fall 1991
Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics, Yale University, Spring 1993
Assistant Professor of Statistics,  UC Berkeley, 1993-1997
Associate Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley, 1997-2001
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 1998-2000
Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley, 2001-
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2006-
Chair, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, 2009-12
 
Honors/Awards
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Fellow, 1999
Medallion Lecturer, IMS, 1999
IEEE Fellow, 2001
American Statistical Association (ASA) Fellow, 2005
Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley, 2006 -
Guggenheim Fellow, 2006
AAAS Fellow, 2009
Invited Talk, International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2011
Tukey Memorial Lecturer, The 8th World Congress of Probability and Statistics, 2012
President-Elect, Institiute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2012-13
Inaugural Pao-Lu Hsu Award, International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), 2012
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013
President, IMS, 2013-2014
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2014
 
Professional Services
Action Editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2001-
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2006-2008
Associate Editor, Technometrics, 2007-2010
Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, 1996-2001, 2005-2011
Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics, 1998-2006
Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue of Statistica Sinica on Bioinfomatics, 2001
Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Trans. Signal Proc. on Machine Learning, 2004
Board Member, IEEE Information Theory Society (two terms)
Council Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (two terms)
Member, National Advisory Board, SAMSI, 2008-2010
Co-chair, National Advisory Board, SAMSI, 2010-2012
Chair, Scientific Committee, Center for Statistical Science, PKU, 2011-2014
Member, Board of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, NAS, 2010-2013
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, IPAM, 2011-2014
Member, Governing Board, ICERM, 2012-2015