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Peng Xu

Research Interests

  • Optimal Transport
  • Quantum Machine Learning

Education

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

Awards and Honors

  • 2023 Doctoral Student Teaching Award

Courses Taught

  • Teaching Assistant:
    • Spring 2024: STAT 107 (Data Science Discovery)
    • Fall 2023: STAT 107 (Data Science Discovery)
    • Spring 2023: STAT 430 (Unsupervised Learning)
    • Fall 2022: STAT 542 (Statistical Learning)
    • Spring 2022: STAT 428 (Statistical Computing)
    • Fall 2021: STAT 428 (Statistical Computing)
    • Summer 2021: STAT 200 (Statistical Analysis)
    • Spring 2021: STAT 428 (Statistical Computing)
    • Fall 2020: CS 598 (Practical Statistical Learning)

Recent Publications