Speaker

Professor Yao XIE

Yao Xie is the Coca-Cola Foundation Chair, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Associate Director of the Machine Learning Center. From September 2017 until May 2023, she was the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Stanford University in 2012 and was a Research Scientist at Duke University. Her research lies at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and optimization in providing theoretical guarantees and developing computationally efficient and statistically powerful methods for problems motivated by real-world applications. She received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2017, the INFORMS Wagner Prize Finalist in 2021, the INFORMS Gaver Early Career Award for Excellence in Operations Research in 2022, and the CWS Woodroofe Award in 2024. She is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Journal of the American Statistical Association-Theory and Methods, the American Statistician, Operations Research, Sequential Analysis: Design Methods and Applications, INFORMS Journal on Data Science, an Area Chair of NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and Senior Program Committee of AAAI.