Yao Xie is an Assistant Professor and Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Stanford University in 2011. Prior joining Georgia Tech in 2013, she worked as a Research Scientist at Duke University. Her research interests are statistics, signal processing, and machine learning. She received a Best Student Paper Award at Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers in 2005, Finalist of Best Student Paper Award in ICASSP Conference in 2007, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2017.