{"638086":{"#nid":"638086","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Welcomes Assistant Professor Shihao Yang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Shihao Yang joined the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u0026nbsp;on August 15,\u0026nbsp;2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining ISyE, he served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. His primary research interest is to use big data to solve real-life problems focusing on three perspectives: methodological development, computational tools, and probabilistic modeling. He has developed methods for infectious disease prevalence forecasts and built a tailor-made matching method to study cancer immunotherapy with electronic health data. He also introduced a new method for parallelizable Markov chain Monte Carlo and another fast approximation method for inference in dynamic systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYang received his Ph.D. and an A.M. in statistics from Harvard University and his B.Sc. in actuarial science from University of Hong Kong.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Yang\u0027s primary research interest is to use big data to solve real-life problems focusing on three perspectives: methodological development, computational tools, and probabilistic modeling. "}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYang\u0026#39;s primary research interest is to use big data to solve real-life problems focusing on three perspectives: methodological development, computational tools, and probabilistic modeling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yang\u0027s primary research interest is to use big data to solve real-life problems focusing on three perspectives: methodological development, computational tools, and probabilistic modeling. "}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2020-08-19 15:41:05","changed_gmt":"2020-08-19 15:41:05","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"638071":{"id":"638071","type":"image","title":"ISyE Assistant Professor Shihao Yang","body":null,"created":"1597846084","gmt_created":"2020-08-19 14:08:04","changed":"1597846084","gmt_changed":"2020-08-19 14:08:04","alt":"Shihao Yang","file":{"fid":"242678","name":"Shihao Yang web square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Shihao%20Yang%20web%20square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Shihao%20Yang%20web%20square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36646,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Shihao%20Yang%20web%20square.jpg?itok=prZXCHxM"}}},"media_ids":["638071"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"185603","name":"Shihao Yang"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}