Students

I welcome students interested in statistics, optimization, machine learning, and their mathematical foundations.

PhD students

Yilei Zhang

PhD student, Statistics, University of Michigan. Co-mentored with XuanLong Nguyen since 2023; works on nonparametric mixture models and Bayesian statistics.

Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan.

Hyeonduk Sim

PhD student, Data Science and Statistics, UT Dallas. Working with me since September 2025.

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Master’s students

Renzhi Liang

Master’s student, University of Bonn. August 2025-April 2026.

Prospective students

UTD PhD students and prospective research interns are welcome to email yun.wei@utdallas.edu with a CV and transcripts.