Yao Xie

Yao Xie is an Assistant Professor and Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, which she joined in 2013. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Stanford University in 2011, M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) . From 2012 to 2013, she was a Research Scientist at Duke University. Her research areas include statistics, signal processing, and machine learning, in providing theoretical foundation as well as developing computationally efficient and statistically powerful algorithms for big data in various applications such as sensor networks, imaging, and crime data analysis. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2017 and her crime data analytics project received the Smart 50 Award at the Smart Cities Connect Conferences and Expo in 2018.