Dan Yao

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Hello, I am Dan Yao. Nice to meet you here!

Currently I am doing a postdoc with my PhD supervisors Dr. Yoann Altmann and Prof. Stephen McLaughlin at Heriot-Watt University .

The best way to reach me is by email at D.Yao@hw.ac.uk.

Research interests

  • Variational Inference
  • Scalable Approximate Bayesian Methods
  • Expectation Propagation
  • Single-photon Lidar

Education

  • 2022.04 - present, Postdoctoral Researcher , University Defence Research Collaboration, Edinburgh, UK
  • 2018.10 - 2022.04, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering , Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
  • 2015.09 - 2018.06, M.Sc, Electrical Engineering , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 2011.09 - 2015.06, B.S, Geographic Information System (GIS) , Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China