Dr. Yuan Gan (袁淦)

B.Sc., M.Phil. (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ph.D. (Columbia University in the City of New York)

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Office:	P6706 YEUNG
Phone:	34425956
Fax:	34420613
Email:	ganyuan@cityu.edu.hk

Research Interests

Theoretical Machine Learning
Representation Learning
Active Learning
Time Series Analysis
Computational Ecology

Dr. Yuan currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Department of Biostatistics at City Univeristy of Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia Univeristy, under the supervision of Prof. Samory Kpotufe and Prof. Tian Zheng. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Phil. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Prof. Chun Yip Yau. His research interest lies broadly in the intersection of statistics and theoretical machine learning, including active learning, representation learning, time series analysis, dimension reduction etc.

Publications Show All Publications Show Prominent Publications

Journal

Yuan, Gan. & Yau, Chun Yip. (2026). Generalized Multivariate Threshold Autoregressive Models with Linearly Partitioned Threshold Space. Annals of Statistics. Accepted.
Boeschoten, Laura. E. , Ankori-Karlinsky, Roi. , Arellano, Gabriel. , Brown, Alyssa. J. , Fang, Dingyi. , Leitold, Veronika. , Morton, Douglas. , Yuan, Gan. , Zheng, Tian. , Zimmerman, Jess. K. & Uriarte, María. (2026). Tree growth after a major hurricane reflects predisturbance vigor rather than canopy damage. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(16).
Yuan, Gan. , Xu, Mingyue. , Kpotufe, Samory. K. & Hsu, Daniel. J. (2025). Efficient Estimation of the Central Mean Subspace via Smoothed Gradient Outer Products. SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science. 7(3). 1241 - 1264.
Ankori‐Karlinsky, Roi. , Jackson, Toby. D. , Yuan, Gan. , Zimmerman, Jess. K. , Morton, Douglas. C. , Zheng, Tian. & Uriarte, Maria. (2025). Wind acclimation in a subtropical forest: trees on wind‐exposed slopes are shorter with smaller crowns. New Phytologist. 247. 1643 - 1654.
Yuan, Gan. , Zhao, Yunfan. & Kpotufe, Samory. (2024). Regimes of No Gain in Multi-class Active Learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 25(129). 1 - 31.
Tang, Chengliang. , Yuan, Gan. & Zheng, Tian. (2022). Weakly supervised learning creates a fusion of modeling cultures. Observational Studies. 7(1). 203 - 211.

Conference Paper

Kpotufe, Samory. , Yuan, Gan. & Zhao, Yunfan. (2022). Nuances in Margin Conditions Determine Gains in Active Learning. The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR. 151. (pp. 8112 - 8126).

Last update date : 15 Apr 2026