“Congratulations to Yao on this significant professional achievement,” said ISyE School Chair Edwin Romeijn. “Her promotion to associate professor with tenure is a reflection of her hard work in sequential statistical methods, statistical signal processing, big data analysis, compressed sensing, and optimization.”

About Yao Xie

Yao Xie’s research interests have applications to wireless communications, sensor networks, medical and astronomical imaging.

Xie previously served as a research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University after receiving her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (2011).

She also has an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida (2006) and a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from China’s University of Science and Technology (2004).

In 2017, Xie received an NSF CAREER Award.