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[[FILE:Yizao.jpg|border|right|thumb|153px|link=http://homepages.uc.edu/~wangyz/| Yizao Wang <ref>[http://homepages.uc.edu/~wangyz/ Yizao Wang's Homepage]</ref> ]]

'''Yizao Wang''',<br/>
a Chinese mathematician and statistician, and assistant professor at Department of Mathematical Sciences, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cincinnati University of Cincinnati]. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_University Peking University], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing Beijing], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China China], a M.Sc. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_mathematics Applied Mathematics] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique École Polytechnique], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaiseau Palaiseau], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France], and Ph.D. in Statistics at [[University of Michigan]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan Ann Arbor], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan Michigan], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States] in 2012. His research interests include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_value_theory Extreme value theory], sum- and max-stable processes and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_field random fields], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem Central limit theorems] for dependent sequences, [[Learning|Machine learning]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit bandit algorithms] and applications to [[Go|Computer-Go]].

Yizao Wang is co-author of the top level [[Go]] playing program [http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=515 Mogo], using [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]] which uses patterns in the simulations and improvements in [[UCT]] <ref>[http://www.lri.fr/~teytaud/mogo.html MoGo: a software for the Game of Go]</ref>.

=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://homepages.uc.edu/~wangyz/ Yizao Wang's Homepage - Publications]</ref><ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/w/Wang:Yizao.html DBLP: Yizao Wang]</ref>
==2006 ...==
* [[Sylvain Gelly]], [[Yizao Wang]] ('''2006'''). ''Exploration exploitation in Go: UCT for Monte-Carlo Go''. [http://www.lri.fr/%7Egelly/paper/nips_exploration_exploitation_mogo.pdf pdf]
* [[Sylvain Gelly]], [[Yizao Wang]], [[Rémi Munos]], [[Olivier Teytaud]] ('''2006'''). ''Modification of UCT with Patterns in Monte-Carlo Go''. [http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00117266 INRIA]
* [[Yizao Wang]], [[Sylvain Gelly]] ('''2007'''). ''Modifications of UCT and Sequence-Like Simulations for Monte-Carlo Go''. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, Honolulu, USA, 2007, [http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/%7Eyizwang/publications/wang07modifications.pdf pdf]
* [[Sylvain Gelly]], [[Yizao Wang]] ('''2007'''). ''MoGo wins 19x19 Go tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#30_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2]] » [[12th Computer Olympiad#Go|12th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Yizao Wang]], [[Jean-Yves Audibert]] and [[Rémi Munos]] ('''2008'''). ''Algorithms for Infinitely Many-Armed Bandits''. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, [http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/%7Eyizwang/publications/wang08algorithms.pdf pdf], Supplemental material - [http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/%7Eyizwang/publications/wang08algorithmsSupp.pdf pdf]
* [[Vincent Berthier]], [[Amine Bourki]], [[Matthieu Coulm]], [[Guillaume Chaslot]], [[Christophe Fiter]], [[Sylvain Gelly]], [[Jean-Baptiste Hoock]], [[Rémi Munos]], [[Julien Pérez]], [[Arpad Rimmel]], [[Philippe Rolet]], [[Olivier Teytaud]], [[Paul Vayssière]], [[Yizao Wang]], [[Ziqin Yu]] (et al.) ('''2009'''). ''Computer-Go is not only for Go''. Korea, August 2009 [http://www.lri.fr/~teytaud/korea.pdf slides as pdf]
==2010 ...==
* [[Yizao Wang]], [[Mathematician#SAStoev|Stilian A. Stoev]] ('''2010'''). ''On the Association of Sum- and Max- Stable Processes''. Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 80, [http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/%7Eyizwang/publications/wang10association@SPL.pdf pdf]

=External Links=
* [http://homepages.uc.edu/~wangyz/ Yizao Wang's Homepage]
* [http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/person.php?id=508 Yizao Wang's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Wang%2C+Yizao Wang, Yizao] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=169701 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Yizao Wang]
* <span id="Video"></span>[[12th Computer Olympiad#Go|Computer Olympiad 2007]], Interview with [[Yizao Wang]] by [[Harry Weerheijm]], [http://senseis.xmp.net/?EuroGoTV EuroGoTV], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
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