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Yang Feng (冯阳）

@yangfengstat

Professor of Biostatistics, New York University

 New York, NY
yangfengstat.github.io/
Joined January 2018
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Asian American Scholar Forum
@AASForumOrgJan 20
🎓 Call for student posters (high school, undergraduate, graduate) for the inaugural AASF AIX Summit! ⏰ Deadline: February 17, 2026 (AOE) 🔗 bit.ly/aix2026-posters
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🚀 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Frontiers in Statistical Learning: Data, Networks, and Knowledge Transfer Journal: Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLADS) 📅 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026 👨‍🎓 Guest Editors: Yang Feng, Guangming Pan, Jiaming Xu, Emma Zhang
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CDS-affiliated Professor Yang Feng (@yangfengstat) introduced new algorithms that can control different types of errors independently. Published in JASA, the work provides tools for applications like loan default prediction where some mistakes matter more than others.
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Yang Feng (冯阳） (@yangfengstat) profile pictureYang Feng (冯阳）@yangfengstat19 Oct 2024
Sharing a new work on Neyman-Pearson classification problem via cost-sensitive learning. @NYUGPHBiostats @nyupublichealth @NYUDataScience Neyman-Pearson Multi-class Classification via Cost-sensitive Learning: (JASA) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Neyman-Pearson Multi-Class Classification via Cost-Sensitive Learning

Neyman-Pearson Multi-Class Classification via Cost-Sensitive Learning

Most existing classification methods aim to minimize the overall misclassification error rate. However, in applications such as loan default prediction, different types of errors can have varying c...

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A @Patterns_CP paper by @LijiaW0206 @xtong001 discovered the impacts of statistics on scientific disciplines over the recent decades and provided a dataset (zenodo.org/record/6565329) for citation network analysis. cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S… #Statistics #DataScience #ScienceImpact
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NYUGPHBiostats@NYUGPHBiostats13 Sep 2022
The first PQAR info session will take place on Tuesday, 9/20 at 8:30 pm ET ! RSVP here: nyu.zoom.us/j/96196956201 #PQAR #NYU #NYC #Biostats #aging #NIH #NIA #AcademicTwitter #statstwitter #REU #datascience #STEM #diversityinSTEM #publichealth #stats #R #Epidemiology #Computing
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NYUGPHBiostats@NYUGPHBiostats4 Aug 2022
Happening now! 2022 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis and Beyond @nyupublichealth yangfeng.hosting.nyu.edu/sna…
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IMS@InstMathStat14 Jun 2022
IMS Co-Sponsored Meeting 2022 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis and Beyond August 3–5, 2022, New York, USA yangfeng.hosting.nyu.edu/sna… @yangfengstat
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NYUGPHBiostats@NYUGPHBiostats15 Oct 2021
On Monday, 10/18 at 8:00 pm, Dr.@yangfengstat will host an info session on our doctoral program! Join the conversation here: apply.publichealth.nyu.edu/r… #biostatistics #diversity #datascience #NYU #PhD #stat #PhD #statstwitter #academictwitter #STATS #publichealth #NYC
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NYUGPHBiostats@NYUGPHBiostats21 Apr 2021
📢📢📢We are hiring! Please apply for Visiting Assistant Professor at apply.interfolio.com/86357 and Visiting Associate Professor at apply.interfolio.com/86359 @nyupublichealth @nyuniversity #STEM #hiring #AcademicTwitter
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NYUGPHBiostats@NYUGPHBiostats2 Mar 2021
📢📢📢We've created a brand new certificate for non-NYU students! The Advanced Certificate in Public Health Data Science, provides training in Biostats, Epi and public health. Click here to learn more: publichealth.nyu.edu/program…
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Yang Feng (冯阳）@yangfengstat2 Apr 2020
Replying to @NYGovCuomo @HealthNYGov
Statistical evidence as follows. #SocialDistancing nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o…
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New York Daily News
@NYDailyNews2 Apr 2020
OPINION: Has social distancing slowed down coronavirus spread? The evidence so far looks promising. trib.al/lS9vJEY

Statistical evidence social distancing is working: Look at the effect on new coronavirus cases over...

Has social distancing slowed down coronavirus spread? The evidence so far looks promising. As states including Florida and Pennsylvania roll out stay-at-home orders, President Trump has just announ...

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Washington Square News@nyunews21 Mar 2020
BREAKING: Multiple members of the Tisch School of the Arts community have tested positive for COVID-19, according to an email sent to the school today by Dean Allyson Green. The rest of the NYU community has not yet been notified. Article to come.
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We developed the NP-ROC band, whose x axis shows varying desirable thresholds on the population type I error: bit.ly/2MtsbVo xitter.cf/enricocoiera/status/10…
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Benchmarking machine learning often relies on AUC, but real world performance happens over a small portion of the ROC. So AUC might be a good general purpose metric for model development but is not a clinically useful one. link.springer.com/article/10… whoi.edu/cms/files/Global_Ec…
Disadvantages of using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve to assess imaging...

Disadvantages of using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve to assess imaging...

European Radiology - The objectives are to describe the disadvantages of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC AUC) to measure diagnostic test performance and to propose...

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A cartoon video illustrating the basic ideas behind the NP classification: youtube.com/watch?v=vbeeHqJ_…
Neyman-Pearson Classification & Disease Diagnosis

Neyman-Pearson Classification & Disease Diagnosis

This is an introductory video to the following Science Advances art...

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Our recent article on Science Advances about an umbrella algorithm to implement general binary classification algorithms the Neyman-Pearson (NP) paradigm, which aims to control the type I error under a pre-specified threshold with high probability: advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
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