Personal Profile

Dr. Youqian Gao is an Assistant Professor at Shenzhen Audencia Financial Technology Institute (SAFTI), Shenzhen University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His primary research interests include statistical consistency and theory-driven machine learning methods. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Education

• 2021–2025 Ph.D. in Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• 2018–2021 M.S. in Statistics, Xiamen University

• 2014–2018 B.A. in Economics, Xiamen University

Research Interests

Statistical consistency, statistical learning, representation learning, transfer learning

Publications

Gao, Y., and Dai, B. (2025). Word-Level Maximum Mean Discrepancy Regularization for Word Embedding. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–14.