About

Shihao Yang is a Harold E. Smalley Early Career Professor and tenure-track Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, with specialty in statistics, data science, and machine learning.

Prior to joining ISyE, Shihao Yang received his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 2019, advised by Prof. Samuel Kou. He completed his post-doc training in 2020 with Prof. Isaac Kohane in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. 

Shihao's primary research interest is to harness the power of big data to solve real-life problems, with focus on three perspectives: methodological development, computational tools, and probabilistic modeling. His recent interest involves infectious disease modeling, dynamic system inference (parameter inference in differential equations), and electronic medical records mining. 

For more information on him, please visit his website https://sites.gatech.edu/shihao-yang