Yizao Wang

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Yizao Wang, a Chinese mathematician and statistician, and assistant professor at Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Peking University, Beijing, China, a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, and Ph.D. in Statistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States in 2012. His research interests include Extreme value theory, sum- and max-stable processes and random fields, Central limit theorems for dependent sequences, Machine learning, bandit algorithms and applications to Computer-Go.

Yizao Wang is co-author of the top level Go playing program Mogo, using Monte-Carlo Tree Search which uses patterns in the simulations and improvements in UCT.

=Selected Publications=

2006 ...

 * Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang (2006). Exploration exploitation in Go: UCT for Monte-Carlo Go. pdf
 * Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang, Rémi Munos, Olivier Teytaud (2006). Modiﬁcation of UCT with Patterns in Monte-Carlo Go. 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, pdf
 * Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang (2007). MoGo wins 19x19 Go tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2 » 12th Computer Olympiad
 * Yizao Wang, Jean-Yves Audibert and Rémi Munos (2008). Algorithms for Infinitely Many-Armed Bandits. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pdf, Supplemental material - 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 slides as pdf

2010 ...

 * Yizao Wang, Stilian A. Stoev (2010). On the Association of Sum- and Max- Stable Processes. Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 80, pdf

=External Links=
 * Yizao Wang's Homepage
 * Yizao Wang's ICGA Tournaments
 * Wang, Yizao from computer-go.info
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Yizao Wang
 * Computer Olympiad 2007, Interview with Yizao Wang by Harry Weerheijm, EuroGoTV, YouTube Video

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