Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, computer model emulation and calibration, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, climate and environmental applications.
Yawen's research interests are spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, computer model emulation and calibration, Bayesian 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.