Hongliang Bu and Shen, Yunyi* "Identify local limiting factors of species distribution using min-linear logistic regression." arXiv (2023). [download]
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science (Minor in Astronomy), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-?
- S.M. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-2023
- M.Sc. in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019-2021
- M.Sc. in Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018-2021
- B.Sc. in Integrated Science/Physical Biology, Peking University, 2014-2018
Publications
Preprints
Shen, Yunyi, and Deshpande, Sameer K. "On the posterior contraction of the multivariate spike-and-slab LASSO." arXiv (2022). [download]
Shen, Yunyi, Solis-Lemus, Claudia* and Deshpande, Sameer K*. "Sparse Gaussian chain graphs with the spike-and-slab LASSO: Algorithms and asymptoticss." arXiv (2022). [download]
Shen, Yunyi, and Solis-Lemus, Claudia*. "CARlasso: An R package for the estimation of sparse microbial networks with predictors." arXiv (2020). [download]
Shen, Yunyi, and Solis-Lemus, Claudia*. "The Effect of the Prior and the Experimental Design on the Inference of the Precision Matrix in Gaussian Chain Graph Models." arXiv (2021). [download]
Shen, Yunyi, and Solis-Lemus, Claudia*. "Bayesian chain graph LASSO Models to Learn Sparse Networks with Predictors." arXiv (2020). [download]
Journal Articles
Mallinger, J., Goodwin, K., Kirschbaum, A., Shen, Y., Gillam, E., Olson E.*. (2023). Species-specific responses to white-nose syndrome in the Great Lakes region. Ecology and Evolution, 13:e10267 [download]
Shen, Yunyi*, Olson, Erik, and Van Deelen, Timothy. R. (2021). Spatially Explicit Modeling of Community Occupancy using Markov Random Field Models with Imperfect Observation: Mesocarnivores in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Ecological Modelling 459C (2021) 109712. [download]
Shen, Yunyi, Liu, Mingzhang, Shen, Xiaoli* and Li, Sheng*. "Using an integrative mapping approach to identify the distribution range and conservation needs of a large threatened mammal, the Asiatic black bear, in China." Global Ecology and Conservation 2021. [download]
Yu, J., Shen, Y., Song, X., Chen, X., Li, S.*, & Shen, X*. (2019). Evaluating the effectiveness of functional zones for black muntjac (Muntiacus crinifrons) protection in qianjiangyuan national park pilot site. Biodiversity Science, 27(1). [download]
Software
linconGaussR
Repository: CRAN, 2021
Sampling multivariate Gaussian under linear constraints
robustcov
Repository: CRAN, 2021
Collection of robust (sparse) precision matrix estimators
CARlasso
Repository: CRAN, 2021
Conditional Autoregressive LASSO and extensions
ReCAP
Repository: Github, 2020
Animal population reconstruction from multiple data sources
IsingOccu
Repository: Github, 2019
Spatial explicit community occupancy model
Skills
- Statistics, applied machine learning
- Programming Languages
- R, Python, C++, Matlab
- Linux
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