Yanjun Han

Yanjun Han is currently a Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He received his PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, advised by Tsachy Weissman. Prior to that, he received the BEng degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2015, and the MEng degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2017. He was a recipient of the Presidential Award of Tsinghua University, the ISITA 2016 Student Paper Award, and a co-recipient of the ISIT 2016 Best Student Paper finalist. His research interests include statistical machine learning, high-dimensional and nonparametric statistics, information theory, online learning and bandits, and their applications.