Yian Ma is an assistant professor at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego. Prior to UCSD, he spent a year as a visiting faculty at Google Research. Before that, he was a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, hosted by Mike Jordan. Yian completed his Ph.D. at University of Washington. His current research primarily revolves around scalable inference methods for credible machine learning, with application to time series data and sequential decision making tasks. He has received the Facebook research award, the Stein fellowship, and the best paper awards at the Neurips and ICML workshops.