{"id":12,"date":"2014-09-05T20:32:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T20:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:52:34","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Cheng Yong Tang is Professor and the Cyrus C.K. Curtis Senior Research Fellow in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox.temple.edu\/faculty-research\/academic-areas\/statistics-operations-and-data-science\/\">Department of Statistics, Operations, and Data Science<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.temple.edu\/\">Fox School of Business<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/\">Temple University.<\/a> He served as Director of Graduate Programs in Statistics, overseeing the PhD in Statistics and the Master\u2019s program in Statistics, from 2016 to 2019. He also served as Director of the PhD Program in Statistics and Director of the Master\u2019s Program in Statistics and Data Science from 2023 to 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tang serves as an Associate Editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/amstat.tandfonline.com\/action\/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&amp;journalCode=uasa20\">Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods<\/a>, an Associate Editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/amstat.tandfonline.com\/action\/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&amp;journalCode=ubes20\">Journal of Business and Economic Statistics<\/a>, and an Associate Editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw\/statistica\/\">Statistica Sinica.<\/a> He was an Associate Editor for Reproducibility (2019-2022) of Journal of the American Statistical Association, Applications and Case Studies, and an Associate Editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (2020-2026). Dr. Tang is a Fellow of the <span class=\"RES9jf q8U8x\" role=\"heading\">Institute of Mathematical Statistics<\/span>, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, a member of the American Statistical Association, and a member of the International Chinese Statistical Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Dr. Tang earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. This is his <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/files\/2014\/09\/gene.png\">Mathematical Genealogy.<\/a> His <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/research\/\">research interests<\/a> are methods, theory, and applications in statistics and data science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><b>Contact:<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/files\/2019\/12\/web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-264 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/files\/2019\/12\/web-209x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/files\/2019\/12\/web-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/files\/2019\/12\/web.png 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Room 276 Building 1810<br \/>\n1810 Liacouras Walk<br \/>\nPhiladelphia, PA 19122-6083<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phone:<\/strong> (215) 204-3191<\/li>\n<li><strong>Email<\/strong>: yongtang at temple.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Education:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D in Statistics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iastate.edu\">Iowa State University<\/a>, 2008, Advisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/songxichen.com\/\">Song X. Chen<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>M.S. in Statistics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.nus.edu.sg\">National University of Singapore<\/a>, 2003.<\/li>\n<li>B.S. in Management Science and Computer Science, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustc.edu.cn\"> University of Science and Technology of China<\/a>, 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Default Statcounter code for CYT http:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yongtang\/ --><\/p>\n<div class=\"statcounter\"><a title=\"Web Analytics\" href=\"https:\/\/statcounter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"statcounter\" src=\"https:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/2868835\/0\/3d0164ef\/0\/\" alt=\"Web Analytics\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- End of Statcounter Code --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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