Yan Hao

About me

When I am not working, I'm a huge fan of English soccer. I am a LaTeX enthusiast and enjoy following sports and doing sports analytics for fun. My favorite teams are: Shandong Taishan FC, which is my hometown football team, Arsenal FC, and Dortmund FC. Besides, I'm quite interested in etymology. I get to know etymology during my GRE preparing. Now I just casually dive into it during my spare time.

Recent books I've read and highly recommend

Historical Nonfiction

• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard Lyman Bushman
• Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex and Colonel Roosevelt, all by Edmund Morris
• The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats, by Daniel Stone
• 1491, 1493, and The Wizard and the Prophet, all by Charles C. Mann

Economics

• Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith
• The Years That Matter Most, by Paul Tough

Science

• The Master Algorithm, by Pedro Domingos
• Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths