Ron Yurko

Assistant Teaching Professor

Bio

I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses on developing methods at the interface of inference and machine learning, oriented towards problems in sports analytics and natural language processing. I am also the Director of the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center (CMSAC) and the Director of the department's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. I previously received my Ph.D. in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, and have industry experience in both finance and professional sports.

Areas of Research

• Sports Analytics
• Natural Language Processing & Large Language Models
• Biostatistics & Epidemiology
• Public Policy & Social Sciences
• Statistical Pedagogy & Educational Research
• Statistical Machine Learning
• High-Dimensional Statistics