CV

Education

Ph.D in Statistics, University of Toronto, 2017-2022
M.S. in Statistics, University of Toronto, 2016
B.S. in Actuarial Science, Concordia University, 2015

Awards

SSC 2022 Presentation Award, Probability Section
Donald A. S. Fraser Award, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships-Doctoral Program (CGS D) (Upgraded for 2020-2021)
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships-Doctoral Program (PGS D) (2018-2020)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
ISBA 2021 Best Student/Postdoc Contributed Paper Award
Teaching Assistant Award Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
BMO Scholarship
Towers Watson Scholarship

Work Experience

2023 - present: Lecturer (assistant professor)
- Imperial College London
- Duties included: Teaching and supervision of undergraduate and Masters students.
2022-2023: Chapman Fellow
- Imperial College London
- Duties included: Teaching and supervision of Masters students.
- Supervisor: Dr. Heather S. Battey
Summer 2019-2020: Research Assistant
- University of Toronto
- Duties included: Investigating the behavior of the P-value distribution under general assumptions.
- Supervisor: Professors Lei Sun and Radu Craiu
Fall 2016-2021: Teaching Assistant
- University of Toronto
- Duties included: Planning and running tutorial sessions for between 15 and 50 students, providing individual instruction during office hours and grading. Courses TA’d have spanned introductory statistical theory, application and mathematical probability. I have consistently received extremely positive feedback from students, and won the departmental TA award in 2016.

Refereed Publications

Asymptotic of Numerical Integration for Two-Level Mixed Models

Bilodeau, Stringer, and Tang (2025). Asymptotic of Numerical Integration for Two Level Mixed Models, arxiv:2202.07864.

Inference for overparametrized hierarchical Archimedean copulas

Perreault, Samuel, Yanbo Tang, Ruyi Pan, and Nancy Reid. "Inference for overparametrized hierarchical Archimedean copulas." arXiv:2411.10615 (2024).

Laplace and Saddlepoint Approximations in High Dimensions

Tang and Reid (2024). "Laplace and Saddlepoint Approximations in High Dimensions.". Bernoulli, to appear.

A Note on Monte Carlo Integration in High Dimensions

Tang, Y. (2023). A Note on Monte Carlo Integration in High Dimensions. The American Statistician (accepted).

Asymptotic behaviour of the modified likelihood root

Tang and Reid. "Asymptotic behaviour of the modified likelihood root" Statistica Sinica, to appear.

On the tightness of the Laplace approximation for statistical inference

Bilodeau, Tang, and Stringer (2023). On the tightness of the Laplace approximation for statistical inference. Statistics and Probability Letters, 198, 109839.

Variability of extragalactic X-ray jets on kiloparsec scales

Meyer, Shaik, Tang, Reid, Reddy, Breiding, ... and Trevor (2023). Variability of extragalactic X-ray jets on kiloparsec scales. Nature Astronomy, 1-9.

Stochastic Convergence Rates and Applications of Adaptive Quadrature in Bayesian Inference

Bilodeau, Stringer and Tang. "Stochastic Convergence Rates and Applications of Adaptive Quadrature in Bayesian Inference." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1-11.

Types of Parental Psychological Control and Rural and Urban Chinese Adolescents’ Psychological Well-Being and Academic Functioning

Fang, Q., Liu, C., Tang, Y., Shi, Z., Wang, Q., and Helwig, C. C. (2022). Types of parental psychological control and rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ psychological well‐being and academic functioning. Child Development, 93(2), 484-501.

General Behaviour of P-values under the Null and Alternative

Tang, Craiu and Sun. "General Behaviour of P-values under the Null and Alternative." ArXiv.

Modified Likelihood Root in High Dimensions

Tang and Reid. (2020). " Modified Likelihood Root in High Dimensions." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology 82(5), 1349-1369

Non-Refereed Publications

Tang (2021) contribution to the discussion of Vansteelandt and Dukes (2021) Assumption-lean inference for generalised linear model parameters (To appear in JRSSB).

Referee Duties

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, Statistical Sciences, Journal of Graphical and Computational Statistics and Canadian Journal of Statistics.

Service

2023 - 2024 Admission panel MSc in Statistics (Imperial College)
2023 Moderator for Econometrics and Learning workshop (hosted at Imperial-X)
2022 Moderator Bayesian Fiducial Frequentist conference (BFF7)
2022 Judge for Canadian Statistics Student Conference 10 (CSSC)
2022 Moderator for the Statistics Society of Canada (SSC) annual meeting 2022 (online)
2022 Moderator for the SSC annual meeting 2021

Supervision

2023 Lito Konidari, MSc in Statistics
- A Genetic Algorithm for the Boundary Estimation of Complex Astronomical Objects
2023 Isaac Sanders, MSc in Statistics
- A Mathematical Exploration of the Strategic Aspects of Warfare