Grace Y. Yi is a professor at the University of Western Ontario where she currently holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science. She is recognized as one of the influential women in Statistics.

Professor Yi received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Toronto in 2000 and then joined the University of Waterloo as a postdoctoral fellow (2000-2001), Assistant Professor (2001-2004), Associate Professor (2004-2010), Professor (2010-2019), and University Research Chair (2011-2018). Professor Yi is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). In 2010, Professor Yi received the prestigious Centre de Recherches Mathmatiques and the Statistical Society of Canada (CRM-SSC) Prize, which recognizes a statistical scientist's excellence and accomplishments in research during the first fifteen years after earning their doctorate. Professor Yi was a recipient of the University Faculty Award (2004-2009) granted by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Her work with Xianming Tan and Runze Li won The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award in 2016.

Professor Yi has served the profession in various roles. She is currently a Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Electronic Journal of Statistics (2022-2024) and serves as the Editor of the Statistical Methodology and Theory Section for The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science. Previously, she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Canadian Journal of Statistics (2016-2018) and took on the Presidency of the Statistical Society of Canada for the 2020-2022 term. Professor Yi founded the first chapter of the International Chinese Statistical Association in Canada (established in 2012) and chaired the Lifetime Data Science Section of the American Statistical Association in 2023.