Shiqing Yu

Shiqing Yu, Ph.D. Research scientist at Facebook, Inc. syu DOT phd AT gmail DOT edu

Person

I am now a research scientist at Facebook, Inc.

I graduated in June 2020 with a PhD from the Statistics department in the Machine Learning and Big Data PhD Track at the University of Washington, Seattle.

I graduated in 2015 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a B.S. in Honors Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science.

Research

I worked with Professors Mathias Drton and Ali Shojaie on graphical models at the University of Washington, Seattle. For details please refer to this page.

Teaching and Programming

For details please refer to this page for my teaching and here for my programming.

Languages

• Languages I speak: see left.

  • Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese/Hakka/Taiwanese Hokkien) (native), English (CEFR C2), Japanese (CEFR C2), Korean (CEFR C1?), French (B2), Danish (A1), German (A1)

• J-Test (Test of practical Japanese 実用日本語検定) A-C levels, Sep 2024, 918/1000, A Level (=CEFR C2)

• TOPIK (The Test of Proficiency in Korean 한국어능력시험) Level 6 (highest), Jul 2024, 252/300, passing line 230/300

• DELF (Diplôme d’études en langue française) B2, Jun 2024, 87.5/100, passing line 50/100

• Kanken (The Japan Kanji Aptitude Test 日本漢字能力検定) Level 2, Jun 2018, 186/200, passing line 155/200)

• JLPT (The Japanese Language Proficiency Test 日本語能力試験) N1 (highest), Jul 2012, 152/180 (95th percentile), passing line 100/200

Contact

• Curriculum vitae

• LinkedIn

• Google Scholar

Others

• ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं

• My hometown

• Places I have visited before (See map here)

• A Martian