Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, computer model emulation and calibration, Baye​sian hierarchical modeling, climate and environmental applications.

Yawen's research interests are spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, computer model emulation and calibration, Baye​sian hierarchical modeling, and climate and environmental applications.  

Prior to joining UNL, she  spent two years at SAMSI/NC State University as a postdoctoral fellow developing spatiotemporal methods for air quality, and emulation-calibration methods for the Artic sea ice. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from the Penn State University in 2017.