Yiu Yin YUNG

News

• [Upcoming 2026] 🎉 I will deliver an oral presentation for my paper Moment Martingale Posteriors for Semiparametric Predictive Bayes during the ISBA World Meeting 2026.

Education

• PhD in Biostatistics
  Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
  2026-2029
  Affiliated to Queens' College
• MPhil in Statistics
  Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong
  2024-2026
  
• BSc in Statistics
  Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong
  2019-2024

Publications

• Moment Martingale Posteriors for Semiparametric Predictive Bayes.
  Yung, Y. Y., Lee, S., & Fong, E. (2025). arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18148.
  

Experience

• Teaching Assistant
  Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong
  
  — STAT3621 Statistical Data Analysis (Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
  — STAT6011 Computational Statistics and Bayesian Learning (Autumn 2025)
  — STAT4610 Bayesian Learning (Autumn 2024)
• Pricing Intern
  Swiss Reinsurance, Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
  

Awards

• MRC BSU Studentship and UKRI International Fee Bursary
  Cover full international tuition fees and a living allowance for my PhD studies.
• Postgraduate Scholarship and Tuition Waiver
  Cover full tuition fees and a living allowance for my MPhil studies.
• Saw Prize in Statistics
  Awarded for achieving the highest average exam marks in the papers taken for Statistics courses, among graduates of the same cohort whose first major is Decision Analytics, Risk Management, or Statistics.

Languages & Hobbies

Some Close Friends of Mine

• Taole Sha
• Jake Liu