Xiaotong T. Shen is the John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. His areas of interest include machine learning and data mining, high-dimensional analysis, graphical models, large margin methods, personalization, recommender systems, natural language processing and text mining, and nonconvex minimization. His current research effort is devoted to the further development of structured learning, collabrative learning, and scalable analysis. The targeted application areas are biomedical sciences, artificial intelligence, and engineering.

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