EDUCATION / EMPLOYMENT

• PhD, Massachusetts Institue of Technology, U.S.A. (1982)
• Research Fellow (1995-present), Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica.
• Associate Professor (1989-1995), Department of Statistics, Colorado State University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Sequential Analysis, Change-Point Problems, Applied Probability.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• G.Simons and Y.C.Yao. Asymptotics when the number of parameters tends to infinity in the Bradley-Terry model for paired comparisons. Annals of Statistics, 27 (1999), no.3, 1041-1060.
• Y.C.Yao. On independence of k-record processes:Ignatov's theotem revisited. Annals of Applied Probability, 7 (1997), no.3, 815-821.