{"id":457,"date":"2024-08-14T13:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ccls\/?page_id=457"},"modified":"2024-08-14T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T20:34:43","slug":"sean-ren","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ccls\/sean-ren\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--signup-form dark\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--signup-form\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"text-image-container\">\n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Sean (Xiang) Ren, Ph.D.\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>USC Viterbi School of Engineering<\/em><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:xiangren@usc.edu\">xiangren@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Xiang Ren an Associate Professor in Computer Science and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair at USC, where he&#8217;s the PI of the Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery (INK) Research Lab. Xiang also hold appointment as a Research Team Leader in Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and serve as a member of the USC NLP Group, USC Machine Learning Center and ISI Center on Knowledge Graphs. Outside of his USC work, Xiang spends time at Allen Institute for AI (AI2) working on machine common sense. Previously he was a Data Science Advisor at Snapchat. Prior to USC, Xiang did his PhD work in computer science at UIUC. 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