Research group

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Email: xiaohuic@usc.edu

Research interest: high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, optimal transport.

Experience:

• Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California, 2023 – Present
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023 – Present
• Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019 – 2023
• Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013 – 2019
• Visiting Faculty, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019 – 2020
• Affiliated Faculty, Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois, 2020 – 2023
• Affiliated Faculty, Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014 – 2023
• Affiliated Faculty, Informatics Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014 – 2023
• Post-doc and research intern, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 2011 – 2012

Education:

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2013
  Advisor: Z. Jane Wang
• Master of Science in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia, 2008
  Advisors: Raphael Gottardo and Kevin P. Murphy
• Bachelor of Science, Zhejiang University, 2006

Honors and Awards:

• Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, 2020
• Associate, Center of Advanced Study, UIUC, 2020
• ICSA Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2019
• NSF CAREER Award, 2018
• Arnold O. Beckman Award, University of Illinois, 2018

Associate Editor:

• Statistica Sinica, 2020 – Present
• Canadian Journal of Statistics, 2019 – Present

Mathematics Ph.D. student at USC.
Email: pengtaol@usc.edu

Research interest: optimal transport, machine learning.

Education:

• B.S. in Mathematics, Shandong University, 2023

Mathematics Ph.D. student at USC.
Email: girshfel@usc.edu

Research interest:  machine learning, generative models.

Education:

• B.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Statistics Ph.D. student at UIUC.
Email: pengxu1@illinois.edu

Research interest: optimal transport, machine learning.

Education:

• M.A. in Statistics, Columbia University, 2018
• M.S. in Financial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
• B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
• B.S. in Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015

Statistics Ph.D. student at UIUC.
Email: rentian2@illinois.edu

Research interest: interacting particle systems, optimal transport, sampling.

Education:

• B.S. in Mathematics, Fudan University, 2019

Statistics Ph.D. student at UIUC.
Email: yubo2@illinois.edu

Research interest: machine learning, clustering, optimization

Education:

• M.A in Statistics, Columbia University, 2021
• B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Zhejiang University, 2019