Yu-Xiang Wang is an Associate Professor at UC San Diego and director of the Scalable Statistical Machine Learning lab, specializing in statistical theory, differential privacy, reinforcement learning, online learning, and deep learning. With 11 years of experience spanning academia and industry, he was previously faculty at UC Santa Barbara and an applied scientist at Amazon Web Services, and holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. His work bridges rigorous theory and practical systems for scalable, privacy-preserving machine learning, often focusing on online and reinforcement settings where decisions must be made under uncertainty. Based in San Diego, he combines a background in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore with cutting-edge ML research, and leads interdisciplinary efforts in responsible machine learning.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore
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