Jie Yang

Email Address: jyang06@uic.edu
College: Liberal Arts and Sciences Department: Math, Statistics, and Computer Science
Title: Professor
Office: SEO 513 Phone: 3124133748
Webpage: https://www.math.uic.edu/~jyang06
Participating in the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Awards program: Yes

Research Interest:
My current active research areas include categorical data analysis, design of experiments, and some others.

(1) Research on categorical data analysis considers categorical responses, whose measurement scale consists of a set of categories, arise naturally in many different scientific disciplines, including social sciences for measuring attitudes and opinions, health sciences for measuring responses of a medical treatment, behavioral
sciences for diagnosis of mental illness, ecology for primary land use in satellite image, education for student responses, marketing for consumer preferences, and many
others.

(2) Research on design of experiment: We are exploring optimal and efficient designs to investigate the effect of mixed factors under parametric statistical models, which is important for many scientific and industrial experiments. We also develop algorithms for searching optimal designs.

Please go to my home webpage and publication list for more details, as well as other research topics:
https://www.math.uic.edu/~jyang06/
https://www.math.uic.edu/~jyang06/publication.html

Minimum time commitment in hours per week: 4

Qualifications of a Student:
A student is expected to have strong research interest and qualify for one of the three categories:
[1] good course performance in linear algebra and calculus;
[2] good course performance in probability and/or statistics;
[3] good experience in computer programming, preferably in using R, and/or web database construction.

Brief Summary of what is expected from the student:
The student is expected to help with one of the four tasks:
[1] solving some optimization problems in mathematics;
[2] exploring characteristics of some probability distributions;
[3] collecting data from online public-accessible database;
[4] developing algorithms and programming.

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