Faculty

Program co-director
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Research interest: high-dimensional statistics, machine learning and optimal transport.
Email: xiaohuic@usc.edu

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Professor Xiaohui Chen and his co-investigators have been awarded a grant by the USC Office of Research and Innovation (OORI) Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Research Program for his proposal on Quantum Empowered Generative Artificial Intelligence.

Program co-director
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Research interest: high dimensional and robust statistics, statistical learning theory, concentration of measure inequalities.
Email: minsker@usc.edu

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Professor Stanislav Minsker is supported by the NSF CAREER grant for his work on “Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Statistical Estimation and Inference.”

Professor of Mathematics
Research interest: distributional approximation and Stein’s method, high dimensional statistics, concentration inequalities, sampling schemes in epidemiology, statistical efficiency, optimal stopping.
Email: larry@usc.edu

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Professor Larry Goldstein recently co-chaired the conference “Stein’s Method: The Golden Anniversary” celebrating Stein’s groundbreaking work on the central limit theorem.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Research interest: random {matrices, tensors, graphs, hypergraphs}, community detection, tensor completion, neural networks, differential privacy.
Email: yizhezhu@usc.edu