Welcome to Yaotian Wang's personal website!

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University, working under the supervision of Professor Ying Guo. Before joining Emory, I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Pittsburgh in 2023, where I worked with Professor Tingting Zhang.

My research interests lie mainly in the multidisciplinary areas of statistical methodology, human brain mapping, and computational neuroscience. The overarching goal of my research is to advance our understanding of how the brain’s functional organization gives rise to diverse cognitive functions and how it changes across the lifespan, and to use this knowledge to improve the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders. To achieve these goals, I develop efficient and robust statistical modeling approaches for large-scale brain imaging data, enabling the investigation of functional organization in both normal and pathological brains, lifespan development and aging, and brain–behavior relationships. Methodologically, my work spans four major areas of statistical research: high-dimensional data analysis, Bayesian methods, blind source separation, and AI methods.

I am currently on the 2025–2026 academic job market.