Amundson Lectures (2020)
Speaker: Roman Vershynin
Professor at the University of California, Irvine
About the Speaker: Roman Vershynin is a Professor of Mathematics working at the University of California, Irvine. His
primary area of expertise is high dimensional probability. He is interested in random
geometric structures that appear across mathematics and data sciences, in particular
in random matrix theory, geometric functional analysis, convex and discrete geometry,
geometric combinatorics, high dimensional statistics, information theory, learning
theory, signal processing, numerical analysis, and network science.
Roman Vershynin received an equivalent of M.S. from Kharkiv National University in
Ukraine in 1996 and Ph.D. from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2000. Prior to his
appointment at the University of California, Irvine, he was a faculty at the University
of Michigan (2008—2017), the University of California, Davis (2003-2008) and a postdoctoral
fellow at the University of Alberta in Canada (2001-2003) and Weizmann Institute of
Science in Israel (2000-2001). He is an Editor of Mathematical Statistics and Learning
(2016—present) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications
(2010—present) and Acta Mathematica Hungarica (2019—present); in the past he served
on the editorial board of Michigan Mathematical Journal (2016—2017). His honors include
the Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship in 2005, an invited talk at the International
Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad in 2010 and Bessel Research Award from Humboldt
Foundation in 2013. He is the author of the textbook "High dimensional probability. An introduction with applications in Data Science", the winner of 2019 Prose Award for Mathematics.
For more information about this speaker, please visit: https://www.math.uci.edu/~rvershyn/cv.html
