Professional Summary
Yichen Qin is a Professor of Business Analytics in the Department of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems at the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Johns Hopkins University. His research work has appeared in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics, Statistica Sinica, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Journal of Machine Learning Research, and Neural Information Processing Systems.
For more information, please see his profile at: https://business.uc.edu/faculty-research/obais/faculty/yichen-qin.html
Education
Ph D: Johns Hopkins University 2013 (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
MS: Johns Hopkins University 2012 (Financial Mathematics)
Research and Practice Interests
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yichenqin/ Computational Statistics Robust Statistics Mixture Models Model Selection Network Analysis Clinical Trial Design
Positions and Work Experience
2013 - Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati,
Research Support
Investigators:Magazine, Michael; Qin, Yichen; Eckman, Mark; Steen, Dylan 02-2016 Robert Wods Johnson Foundation Nutritional Eating 395000 Currently Under Review Type:Grant Level:Private
Investigators:Chang, Lenisa; Magazine, Michael; Qin, Yichen; Steen, Dylan; Couch, Sarah 07-15-2017 -01-14-2019 UC Office of Research - Strategic and Collaborative Grant Supermarket and web-based Interventions Targeting Nutrition for CVD Risk reduction 100000 Funded Type:Grant Level:The University of Cincinnati
Investigators:Chang, Lenisa; Magazine, Michael; Qin, Yichen; Steen, Dylan; Couch, Sarah 12-19-2016 -01-05-2018 UC College of Medicine - Junior Faculty Project Evaluation and Integration of Supermarket-based Nutrition Counseling and Point-of-Purchase Dietary Teaching Model Within an Academic Healthcare System 30000 Funded Type:Grant Level:The University of Cincinnati
Investigators:Chang, Lenisa; Magazine, Michael; Qin, Yichen; Steen, Dylan; Couch, Sarah; Eckman, Mark; Saelens, Brian; Wang, Xinhao 12-02-2016 -12-31-2017 UCHealth - Care Innovation Delivery Competition Evaluation and Integration of Supermarket-based Nutrition Counseling and Point-of-Purchase Dietary Teaching Model Within an Academic Healthcare System 30000 Funded Type:Grant Level:Local
Investigators:Chang, Lenisa; Magazine, Michael; Qin, Yichen 03-01-2017 -07-31-2017 Donaghue Foundation Supermarket and web-based Interventions Targeting Nutrition for CVD Risk reduction 600000 Currently Under Review Type:Grant Level:Private
Investigators:Magazine, Michael; Qin, Yichen; Eckman, Mark; Steen, Dylan 11-2015 -10-2016 CCTST Trial Design 2000 Funded Type:Contract Level:The University of Cincinnati
Grant: #R25089 Investigators:Qin, Yichen 05-01-2020 -04-30-2021 UC's URC Faculty Research Cost Support Awards Program Model Selection Uncertainty and Its Quantification Role:PI $7,500.00 Active Level:Internal UC
Publications
Published Abstracts
Shan, Zhe;Zan;Cheng;Qin, Yichen A User Similarity Network Based Approach for Distributed Recommendation Systems .[Abstract]
Rogers, David;Suxing Zeng;Qin, Yichen Cluster-Based Predicitve Models in Online Education .[Abstract]
Other Publications
Li, Y.; Bie, R.; Teran Hidalgo, S. J.; Qin, Yichen; Wu, M.; Ma, S. Assisted Gene Expression-Based Clustering with AWNCut . Statistics in Medicine
Li, Y.; Li, R.; Qin, Yichen; Wu, M.; Ma, S. Integrative Interaction Analysis using Threshold Gradient Directed Regularization . Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
Li, Q.; Tso, G.K.F.; Qin, Yichen; Lovejoy, T. I.; Heckman, T. G.; Li, Y. Penalized Multiple Inflated Values Selection Method with Application to SAFER Data . Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Li, Y.; Luo, Y.; Ferrari, D.; Hu, X.; Qin, Yichen Model Confidence Bounds for Variable Selection . Biometrics
Zhu, Xiaorui; Qin, Yichen; Wang, Peng Simultaneous Confidence Tube for High Dimensional Models .
Qin, Yichen; Priebe, C. E. (2017. ) Robust Hypothesis Testing via Lq-Likelihood .27 , Statistica Sinica
Athreya, A.; Fishkind, D. E.; Levin, K.; Lyzinski, V.; Park, Y.; Qin, Yichen; Sussman, D. L.; Tang, M.; Vogelstein, J. T.; Priebe, C. E. Statistical Inference on Random Dot Product Graphs: A Survey . Journal of Machine Learning Research
Qin, Yichen; Li, Shaobo; Li, Yang; Yu, Yan Penalized Maximum Tangent Likelihood Estimation and Robust Variable Selection .
Li, L.; Li, Y.; Qin, Yichen; Wang, L.; Chen, J.; Yi, D. (2016. ) Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Boosting Tree with Composite Criterion .86 (10 ) , Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
Zhou, N.; Cheng, W.; Qin, Yichen; Yin, Z. (2015. ) Evolution of High Frequency Systematic Trading: A Performance-Driven Gradient Boosting Model .15 (8 ) , Quantitative Finance
Li, Y.; Yu, C.; Qin, Yichen; Wang, L.; Chen, J.; Yi, D.; Shia, B.-C.; Ma, S. (2015. ) Regularized Receiver Operating Characteristic Based Logistic Regression for Grouped Variable Selection with Composite Criterion .85 (13 ) , Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
Zeng, X.; Ma, S.; Qin, Yichen; Li, Y. (2015. ) Variable Selection in Semiparametric Models for the Strong Hierarchical Longitudinal Data .8 (3 ) , Statistics and Its Interface
Li, J.; Yi, D.; Qin, Yichen; Shen, Y.; Li, Y. (2014. ) Feature Selection for Support Vector Machine in the Study of Financial Early Warning System .30 (6 ) , Quality and Reliability Engineering International
Li, Y.; Qin, Yichen; Xie, Y.; Tian, F. (2013. ) Grouped Penalization Estimation of Osteoporosis Data in Traditional Chinese Medicine .40 (4 ) , Journal of Applied Statistics
Qin, Yichen; Priebe, C. E. (2013. ) Maximum Lq-Likelihood Estimation via the Expectation Maximization Algorithm: A Robust Estimation of Mixture Models .108 (503 ) , Journal of the American Statistical Association
Nehren, D.; Fellah, D.; Ruiz-Mata, J.; Qin, Yichen (2012. ) Dynamic Density Estimation of Market Microstructure Variables via Auxiliary Particle Filtering .7 (4 ) , Journal of Trading
Li, Y.; Yi, D.; Zhang, H.; Qin, Yichen (2012. ) Syndrome Evaluation in Traditional Chinese Medicine Using Second-Order Latent Variable Model .31 (7 ) , Statistics in Medicine
Presentations
Invited Presentations
Qin, Yichen (12-2016. ) 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Seville, Spain. Conference. . Level:International
Qin, Yichen (07-2016. ) ERASMUS+ Program, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia. Other. . Level:International
Qin, Yichen (09-2015. ) Auburn University, Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Seminar. .
Honors and Awards
05-2018 Dean"s List of Teaching Excellence Level:College Type:Teaching
12-2017 Dean"s List of Teaching Excellence Type:Teaching
05-2016 Dean"s List of Teaching Excellence Type:Teaching
12-2015 Dean"s List of Teaching Excellence
05-2015 Dean"s List of Teaching Excellence
12-2013 Dean"s List of Teaching Excellence
Service
OBAIS PhD co-coordinator Faculty Advisor Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 2018 -2019
Data Analytics Certificate Faculty Advisor Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 08-2018 -08-2019
Department Research Seminar Coordinator Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 08-2017 -08-2018
Department Merit Appeals Committee Committee Member Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 08-2016 -08-2017
Big Data Initiative Committee Member Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 2015 -2016
Analytics faculty hiring committee Committee Member Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 2013 -2014
Departmental RPT committee Attendee, Meeting Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 2013 -2014
College Grievance Committee Type:University/College Service Level:University 08-2017 -08-2019
Biometrical Journal Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2018 -2019
ASA Cincinnati Student Chapter Officer, Other Officer Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2017 -2019
Environmetrics Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2017 -2018
Studies in Economics and Finance Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2017 -2018
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2016 -2017
Statistica Sinica Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2016 -2017
Statistics and Its Interface Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2016 -2017
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2016 -2017
9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics Session Chair Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2016 -2016
Joint 24th ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium and 13th Graybill Conference Session Chair Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2015 -2015
WIREs Computational Statistics Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2014 -2015
Journal of American Statistical Association Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2013 -2014
Statistica Sinica Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2013 -2014
Pattern Recognition Reviewer, Journal Article Type:Prof. Org. Level:Service to Professional Associations 2012 -2013
Professional Affiliation
07-2016: Speaker http://www.efos.unios.hr/docent-yichen-qin-iz-cincinnati-ja-putem-erasmus-programa-boravio-na-nasem-fakultetu/ University of Osijek, ERASMUS+ Program, Osijek, Croatia
2014: member International Chinese Statistical Association, International
2006: American Statistical Association,
2014 -2015: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences,
2014 -2015: Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
Courses Taught
DATA ANALY METH
DATA ANALY METH
IND STUDY IN BANA
MS CAPSTONE
DATA ANALY METH
DATA ANALY METH
DATAANALYMETH
DATAANALYMETH
MS CAPSTONE
DATA ANALY METH
FORECASTING METHODS
DATA ANALY METH
DATA ANALY METH
IND STUDY IN BANA
Data Analysis Methods
Data Analysis Methods
Forecasting and Time Series Methods
Data Analysis Methods
Forecasting and Time Series Methods
BUS. ANALYTICS I
BUS. ANALYTICS I
FORECASTING METHODS
Business Analytics I
Business Analytics I
Faculty Development Activities
2013 -2017 Faculty Development Onestop Type:Seminar