Department of Statistics
439 West Hall, 1085 South University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
Phone: 734.763.3519
Fax: 734.763.4676
XuanLong Nguyen
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
456 West Hall
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
1085 South University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
Phone: 734-763-3499
Fax: 734-763-4676
Email: xuanlong@umich.edu
Website: http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~xuanlong/
Research Interests
Distributed statistical inference and maching learning, Graphical, spatial and nonparametric models. Detection, tracking and and estimation in distributed systems, Large-scale ecological modeling and computation, Convex and combinatorial optimization
Courses Taught
Statistics 415, Data Mining and Statistical Learning
Statistics 601, Multivariate and Categorical Data Analysis
Statistics
700, Probabilistic Graphical Models
Education
Ph.D., 2007 (computer science); University of California, Berkeley
MA, 2007 (statistics); University of California, Berkeley
Publications
X. Nguyen and A. E. Gelfand. The Dirichlet labeling process for clustering functional data. Statistica Sinica (To appear)
X. Nguyen, M.J. Wainwright and M.I. Jordan. Estimating divergence functionals and the likelihood ratio by convex risk minimization. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (To appear)
X. Nguyen, M.J. Wainwright and M.I. Jordan (2009). On surrogate loss functions and f-divergences. Annals of Statistics, 37(2), 876--904
X. Nguyen, M. J. Wainwright and M. I. Jordan (2008). On optimal quantization rules in some problems in sequential decentralized detection.
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 54(7), 3285--3295.
X. Nguyen, M. J. Wainwright and M. I. Jordan (2005). Nonparametric decentralized detection using kernel methods. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 53(11), 4053--4066
X. Nguyen, M. I. Jordan and B. Sinopoli (2005). A kernel-based learning approach to ad hoc sensor network localization. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 1, 134--152
Awards
2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Young Author Best Paper Award
2007 Leon O. Chua Award for outstanding research achievement in an area of nonlinear science, UC Berkeley
2004 Best paper award (with M. Wainwright and M. I. Jordan), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Bronze Medal, 33rd International Mathematical Olympiad, Moscow, Russia