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Y. Samuel Wang

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science
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Y. Samuel (Sam) Wang is an assistant professor of statistics and data science. Prior to joining Cornell in 2021, he was a post-doc at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and he completed his Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Washington. He also previously worked as a management consultant before his Ph.D. studies. His primary research areas are graphical models and causal discovery.

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Research areas
Asymptotic Statistics
Graphical Models
Machine Learning
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ysw7@cornell.edu
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