Dr Jangho Yang
Associate
Assistant Professor of Management Sciences at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
Biography
Jangho Yang is an Assistant Professor of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Prior to his employment at UW, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Oxford Martin School and INET, University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research.
His research has focused on the applications of Bayesian statistical modeling to a wide range of economic questions including firm-level dynamics of investment, global innovation frontier, and input-output analysis. He is also interested in information-theoretic economic/econometric modeling. His doctoral dissertation is about statistical equilibrium models of technological change and Bayesian estimations of the innovation possibilities frontier. He has published in economics and multidisciplinary journals such as the Journal of Economic Surveys, Economics Systems Research, Entropy, European Physical Journals Special Topics, and Advances in Complex Systems.
