Dr. Cheng Yong Tang is Professor and the Cyrus C.K. Curtis Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics, Operations, and Data Science in the Fox School of Business of Temple University. He currently serves as the Director of PhD program in Statistics (2023 – now) and the Master’s Program in Statistical Data Science (2023 – now); having previously led the Graduate Programs in Statistics (2016-2019).
Dr. Tang serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, an Associate Editor of Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, an Associate Editor of Statistica Sinica, and an Associate Editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. He was an Associate Editor for Reproducibility (2019-2022) of Journal of the American Statistical Association, Applications and Case Studies. Dr. Tang is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, a member of the American Statistical Association, and a member of the International Chinese Statistical Association.
Dr. Tang earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. This is his Mathematical Genealogy. His research interests are methods, theory, and applications in statistics and data science.
Contact:
- Room 276 Building 1810
1810 Liacouras Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 - Phone: (215) 204-3191
- Email: yongtang at temple.edu
Education:
- Ph.D in Statistics, Iowa State University, 2008, Advisor: Song X. Chen.
- M.S. in Statistics, National University of Singapore, 2003.
- B.S. in Management Science and Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 2001.