Yan Yan

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, where I lead the ROMA Lab. My research interests include uncertainty quantification, risk-aware robust learning and stochastic optimization for machine learning with applications to language models and computer vision. I am the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2025). Over the past four years, I taught 237 students per year on average across three courses. I also mentor over 50 students each year in EECS as a faculty mentor.

Before joining WSU, I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa, under the supervision of Prof. Tianbao Yang.

I received my Ph.D. in 2018 from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, under the supervision of Prof. Yi Yang.

I spent five years with the ReLER Lab, at the University of Technology Sydney, during which I also worked closely with Prof. Ivor W. Tsang. I was also a visiting student at University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Prof. Mingkui Tan and Prof. Javen Qinfeng Shi.

In 2013, I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Tianjin University. My undergraduate thesis was supervised by Prof. Qinghua Hu, and I also received extensive mentorship from Prof. Pufeng Du.