Yinqiu He

Welcome! 

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2022. 

Before joining the Wisconsin-Madison, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Data Science Institute at the Columbia University during 2021-2022. I obtained by Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where I was advised by Prof. Gongjun Xu and Prof. Xuming He. Prior to coming to Michigan, I received my B.S. in Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2016.  

My first name can be pronounced as "In-cho", and my name in Chinese is 何吟秋. 

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in developing theory and methodology for analyzing large-scale and complex-structured data to address scientific problems arising from interdisciplinary studies. My current research interests include high-dimensional and large-scale statistical inference, mediation pathway analysis, network analysis, statistical machine learning, and also applications in statistical genetics and genomics and metabolomics.  

Selected Awards

• • NSF Travel Award for the ICSA 2026 Applied Statistics Symposium. (2026) 

  • IMS New Researcher Travel Grant Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics. (2023) 

  • ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. (2022) 

  • IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics. (2020)

  • JSM Travel Award, Biometrics Section, American Statistical Association. (2020)

  • Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. (2020-2021) 

  • Proposal Award of Shark Tank for Research Ideas in Data Science & Statistics (STRIDES), Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics, University of Michigan. (2020)

  • Rackham International Student Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. (2017) 

Funding Acknowledgements

My research is generously supported by NSF DMS 2515523, UW-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.