Myeongjong Kang

PhD student in Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University

About

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I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student at the Texas A&M statistics department, advised by Dr. Matthias Katzfuss. Before coming to Texas A&M, I completed my undergraduate studies in statistics and mathematical sciences at Seoul National University, where I also earned a master’s degree in statistics, advised by Dr. Byeong U. Park.

I am broadly interested in problems in modeling large spatial datasets, with specific interests in developing fast sparse Gaussian process approximation schemes which are applicable for general covariance matrices or those obtained based on discrete or non-Euclidean inputs (e.g., text analysis, natural language processing). I am also interested in computational methods in statistics including optimization, MCMC, and Bootstrap.

Here is my full CV.

Last updated: August 2022

Research

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Gaussian Processes

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Spatial and Spatio-temporal Statistics

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Computational Statistics

Publications

[02] Kang, M., & Katzfuss, M. (2021). Correlation-based sparse inverse Cholesky factorization for fast Gaussian-process inference. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.14591. (Under review)

[01] Kang, M., Kang, I., Kim, I., Cho, S., Lee, K., & Lee. M. (2018). Research on developing a similarity measure among break-in burglary crimes and its applications. The Korean Association of Police Science Review, 20(6), 57-82. (Written in Korean)

Talks

[03] “Correlation-based sparse inverse Cholesky factorization for fast Gaussian-process inference,” 2022, contributed paper session, Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM 2022)

[02] “Fast correlation-based sparse inverse Cholesky factorization for Gaussian processes,” 2021, contributed speed session, Joint Statistical Meetings (Virtual JSM 2021)

[01] “Correlation-based sparse Cholesky factorization for nonisotropic Gaussian processes,” 2020, contributed poster presentation, Joint Statistical Meetings (Virtual JSM 2020)

Teaching

[02] Statistical Methods (STAT 303), Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, Spring 2021.

[01] Statistical Methods (STAT 303), Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, Fall 2020.

[09] Statistical Methods (STAT 302), Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, Spring 2020.

[08] Elementary Statistical Inference (STAT 201), Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, Fall 2019.

[07] Principle of Statistics (STAT 211), Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, Spring 2019.

[06] Principle of Statistics (STAT 211), Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, Fall 2018.

[05] Big Data Special Course, Statistical Research Institute, Seoul National University, February 2017.

[04] Regression Analysis and Lab. (326.313), Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Spring 2016.

[03] Big Data Special Course, Statistical Research Institute, Seoul National University, February 2016.

[02] Sampling Design and Survey Practice (326.214), Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Fall 2015.

[01] 41th SAS Open Course, Statistical Research Institute, Seoul National University, August 2015.

Contact

Myeongjong Kang

Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

3143 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3143

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kmj.stat@gmail.com