Yuan Li

PhD student

Advisor: Garvesh Raskutti

Office: MSC 1231

Email: yuanli@stat.wisc.edu

Department of Statistics

University of Wisconsin-Madison

1300 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706

     Education

• Ph.D in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013 - present.
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015 - 2017.
• B.S. in Mathematics, Nanjing University, 2009 - 2013.

     Teaching

• 2015 Fall, Stat-327 (R Programming), Teaching Assistant.
• 2015 Fall, Stat-311 (Mathematical Stats for Engrs), Teaching Assistant.
• 2016 Summer, Stat-324 (Intro Applied Stats for Engrs), Teaching Assistant.
• 2016 Fall, Stat-327 (R Programming), Teaching Assistant.
• 2016 Fall, Stat-309 (Mathematical Stats), Teaching Assistant.
• 2017 Fall, Stat-311 (Mathematical Stats for Engrs), Instructor.

     Publications

• Y. Li, G. Raskutti. Minimax optimal convex methods for Poisson inverse problems under l_q ball sparsity, 2016. arXiv

• N. Leng, Y. Li, B.E. Mcintosh, B. K. Nguyen, B. Duffin, S. Tian, J. A. Thomson, C. Dewey, R. Stewart, and C. Kendziorski. EBSeq-HMM: A Bayesian approach for identifying gene-expression changes in ordered RNA-seq experiments. Bioinformatics, 2015.

• N. Leng*, L. Chu*, C. Barry, Y. Li, J. Choi, X. Li, P. Jiang, R. Stewart, J.A. Thomson, and C. Kendziorski. Oscope identifies oscillatory genes in unsynchronized single cell RNA-seq. Nature Methods, 2015.

• K. Korthauer, L. Chu, M. A. Newton, Y. Li, J. Thomson, R. Stewart, C. Kendziorski. A statistical approach for identifying differential distributions in single-cell RNA-seq experiments. Genome Biology, 2016.