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We are a dynamic research group at the USC Marshall Business School. The statistics group consists of 17 full-time faculty. The group’s main research interests span the frontiers of modern theoretical and applied statistical methodology in large-scale, high-dimensional, and complex data settings. The prominent directions include statistical machine learning and inference, optimization, personal decision-making, causal inference, theoretical understanding and uncertainty quantification of deep learning, privacy learning, graphical models, functional data analysis, statistical networks analysis, predictive inference and shrinkage methodology, conformal inference, and applications in economics, financial econometrics, marketing, finance, and other business disciplines.
News
26 Sep 2024
Dennis Shen has been invited to present at the Marshall Assistant Professor Research Day in Fall 2024.
5 Sep 2024
Yingying Fan just received an invitation to deliver a distinguished lecture at the 2024 Symposium on Statistics and Risk Management, which will be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 2024.
5 Sep 2024
Jinchi Lv and Yingying Fan are invited to the Annals of Statistics invited paper session for Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2025 which will be held in Nashville in August 2025 to present their recent work ARK: Robust Knockoffs Inference with Coupling.
5 Sep 2024
Lorena Martin has been selected as a 2024-2025 Marshall Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Fellow.
13 June 2024
Gourab Mukherjee just won the USC-IISc Collaborative Network Award
13 June 2024
Rashmi Ranjan Bhuyan received three awards from the Marshall PhD office: the Marshall PhD Fellowship, the Marshall Ford Award, and the Marshall Ph.D. Student Outstanding Researcher Award.