Hi!
I am a 3rd-year student at the MIT EECS department. My advisor is Prof. Constantinos Daskalakis.
My research interest is mainly in theoretical machine learning, especially high-dimensional statistics and causal inference.
Rui Yao (姚睿)
rayyao at mit dot edu
MIT EECS Department
32G-585
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge
MA, USA
Publications
Peer-reviewed-
Learning Gaussian DAG Models without Condition Number Bounds.
Constantinos Daskalakis, Vardis Kandiros, Rui Yao, on ICML 2025
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Efficient Truncated Linear Regression with Unknown Noise Variance.
Constantinos Daskalakis, Patroklos Stefanou, Rui Yao, Manolis Zampetakis, on NeurIPS 2021
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Fixed Point Computation: Beating Brute Force with Smoothed Analysis.
Idan Attias, Yuval Dagan, Constantinos Daskalakis, Rui Yao, Manolis Zampetakis
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Estimating Ising Models in Total Variation Distance.
Constantinos Daskalakis, Vardis Kandiros, Rui Yao
Awards
EECS Awards- Morais (1986) and Rosenblum (1986) Fund UROP Award. For “Efficient Truncated Linear Regression with Unknown Noise Variance”. Supervised by Prof. Costis Daskalakis.
- 82nd (2022) Putnam competition. Ranked 7th out of 2975 contestants
- 80th (2020) Putnam competition. Ranked 6th out of 4229 contestants
- 2018 IMO Silver Medalist. Ranked 49th out of 594 contestants