Yan Yu (statistician)

Yan Yu is a Chinese and American statistician and marketing scientist whose research interests include nonlinear regression analysis, statistical finance,^[1] data privacy,^[2] and the prediction of bankruptcy.^[3] She is the Joseph S. Stern Professor of Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business of the University of Cincinnati.^[1]

After a 1993 bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China and a 1995 master's degree in applied mathematics from Texas A&M University, Yu completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Cornell University in 2000.^[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Penalized Spline Estimation for Partially Linear Single Index Models, was supervised by David Ruppert.^[4]

Yu was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.^[5]