Teaching

Open-Source Classnotes

• STAT 3255/5255: Introduction to Data Science
  • Spring 2025
    • Class presentation at 2025 NYC Open Data Week: Risk Analysis of NYC Street Flood
  • Fall 2024
  • Spring 2024
    • Class presentation at 2024 NYC Open Data Week: Landscape of Rodent Sightings in New York City: A Data Science Showcase
  • Spring 2023
    • Class presentation at 2023 NYC Open Data Week: Data Science at UConn with NYC Open Data
  • Spring 2022
    • Class presentation at 2022 NYC Open Data Week: NYC Open Data Case Studies from Introduction to Data Science at UConn
• STAT 3494: Statistical Writing
• STAT 5361: Statistical Computing

Undergraduate Advisee Publications

• Fiore, O., Schifano, E. D., and Yan, J. (2025+): On Devon Allen’s disqualification at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships. The American Statistician, forthcoming.
  
• Zeimbekakis, A., Schifano, E. D., & Yan, J. (2024). On misuses of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test for one-sample goodness-of-fit. The American Statistician, 78(4): 481–487. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2024.2356095
• Houlihan, K. & Yan, J. (2024): How to build a gymnastics team. Significance, 21(3), 10–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae039
• Chandy, M., Schifano, E., & Yan, J. (2024): On sample size needed for block bootstrap confidence intervals to have desired coverage rates. American Journal of Undergraduate Research, 20(4), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.33697/ajur.2024.101 UConn Today story
• Price, M. & Yan, J. (2022). The effects of the NBA COVID bubble on the NBA playoffs: A case study for home-court advantage. American Journal of Undergraduate Research, 18(4), 3–15. https://doi.org/10.33697/ajur.2022.051

Student Awards

• Sydney Louit (2025): Student Paper Award, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences, American Statistical Association.
• Jackson Lautier (2024): Honorable Mention, Arnold Zellner Thesis Award in Econometrics and Statistics, American Statistical Association.
• Luis Sydney (2024): Honorable Mention, Student Paper Award, 2024 Applied Statistics Symposium, International Chinese Statistical Association.
• Lucus Godoy (2024): Honoroble Mention, Student Paper Award, Section on Statistics and the Environment, Ameri can Statistical Association.
• Yingfa Xie (2024): Student Paper Award, Section on Lifetime Data Science, American Statistical Association.
• Zehan Yang (2023): Honorable Mention, Student Paper Award, 2023 Applied Statistics Symposium, International Chinese Statistical Association.
• Yelie Yuan (2023): Honorable Mention, John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award, American Statistical Association.
• Jackson Lautier (2022): Student Paper Award, Special Conference Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of UConn Department of Statistics.
• Zehan Yang (2022): Student Paper Award, Section on Lifetime Data Science, American Statistical Association.
• Jackson Lautier (2022): Student Paper Award, Risk Analysis Section, American Statistical Association.
• Jun Jin (2022): Honorable Mention, Student Paper Award, Risk Analysis Section, American Statistical Association.
• Chaoran Hu (2020): Student Paper Award, Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Sections, American Statistical Association.
• Yan Li (2020): ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award, International Biometric Society.
• Yan Li (2019): IBM Student Paper Award, 33rd New England Statistics Symposium.
• Yishu Xue (2019): ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award, International Biometric Society.
• Wenjie Wang (2017): IBM Student Paper Award, 31st New England Statistics Symposium.
• Gregory Vaughan (2017): Student Paper Award, Mental Health Section, American Statistical Association.
• Steven Chiou (2012): Student Paper Award, Applied Statistics Symposium, International Chinese Statistical Association.
• Yung-wei Chen (2012): Student Paper Award, Social Statistics, Government Statistics, and Survey Research Methods Sections, American Statistical Association.
• Xiaojing Wang (2010): IBM Student Paper Award, 24th New England Statistics Symposium.