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]