Yan Yan
About
I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, where I lead the ROMA Lab. My research interests include uncertainty quantification, risk-aware robust learning and stochastic optimization for machine learning with applications to language models and computer vision. I am the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2025). Over the past four years, I taught 237 students per year on average across three courses. I also mentor over 50 students each year in EECS as a faculty mentor. Before joining WSU, I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa, under the supervision of Prof. Tianbao Yang. I received my Ph.D. in 2018 from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, under the supervision of Prof. Yi Yang. I spent five years with the ReLER Lab, at the University of Technology Sydney, during which I also worked closely with Prof. Ivor W. Tsang. I was also a visiting student at University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Prof. Mingkui Tan and Prof. Javen Qinfeng Shi. In 2013, I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Tianjin University. My undergraduate thesis was supervised by Prof. Qinghua Hu, and I also received extensive mentorship from Prof. Pufeng Du.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Subcellular localization prediction for human internal and organelle membrane proteins with projected gene ontology scores
Year: 2012
Citations: 25
Venue: Journal of theoretical biology 313
Latest Recorded Paper
Provably Minimum-Length Conformal Prediction Sets for Ordinal Classification
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.16845
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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