{"id":232,"date":"2024-06-19T16:20:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/math-data-science\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2024-11-15T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T23:52:38","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/math-data-science\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n\n                \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Core Faculty\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/the-xiaohuichen.github.io\/\" \n         target=\"_blank\"                 class=\"\" \n      >Xiaohui Chen<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Program co-director<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Mathematics<br \/>\n<em>Research interest<\/em>: high-dimensional statistics, machine learning and optimal transport.<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:xiaohuic@usc.edu\">xiaohuic@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spotlight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Xiaohui Chen and his co-investigators have been awarded a grant by the USC Office of Research and Innovation (OORI) <a href=\"https:\/\/research.usc.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/usc-oori-awards-four-faculty-led-projects-under-genai-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Research Program<\/a> for his proposal on Quantum Empowered Generative Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/the-xiaohuichen.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Xiaohui Chen\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/math-data-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2024\/06\/Chen.png\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/stasminsker.github.io\/\" \n         target=\"_blank\"                 class=\"\" \n      >Stanislav Minsker<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Program co-director<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Mathematics<br \/>\n<em>Research interest<\/em>: high dimensional and robust statistics, statistical learning theory, concentration of measure inequalities.<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:minsker@usc.edu\">minsker@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spotlight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Stanislav Minsker <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2045068&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSF CAREER grant<\/a> for his work on \u201cRobust and Efficient Algorithms for Statistical Estimation and Inference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/stasminsker.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stanislav Minsker\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/math-data-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2024\/08\/Minsker-768x1024.webp\"\n          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interest<\/em>: distributional approximation and Stein\u2019s method, high dimensional statistics, concentration inequalities, sampling schemes in epidemiology, statistical efficiency, optimal stopping.<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:larry@usc.edu\">larry@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spotlight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Larry Goldstein recently co-chaired the conference \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ims.nus.edu.sg\/events\/steins-method-the-golden-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stein\u2019s Method: The Golden Anniversary<\/a>\u201d celebrating Stein\u2019s groundbreaking work on the central limit theorem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/larry-goldstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Larry Goldstein\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n      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