Organizing Committee
Members
- Daniel Bartl (National University of Singapore )
- Shahar Mendelson (Texas A&M University)
- Jonathan Scarlett (National University of Singapore )
- Roman Vershynin (University of California, Irvine)
Contact Information
Contact person: Jonathan Scarlett scarlett(AT)comp.nus.edu.sg
Overview
This is a summer school targeted primarily at PhD students (and also open to others such as Masters and post-docs), covering the foundations of mathematical tools and techniques in modern data science. The first 5 days (Week 1) will consist of tutorial-style introductions to selected topics in this domain, and the final 3 days (Week 2) will consist of two-part talks covering introductory/tutorial content followed by recent research. This school is the third in the series following Darwin 2024 and Switzerland (Bernoulli Center) 2025.
Activities
Format of Summer School:
- First 5 days (Week 1): Speakers delivering multi-session lectures/tutorial.
- Final 3 days (Week 2): A larger number of speakers giving single-session talks with an ‘introduction/mini-tutorial’ component and a ‘recent research’ component.
- Both weeks: Discussion sessions and possible poster sessions
Speakers of Mini-Courses in Week 1:
- Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (University of Milan, Italy) [Topic: Sequential decision-making]
- Shuangping Li (Yale University, USA) [Topic: Statistical physics of random computational problems]
- Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California, USA) [Topic: Moment and deviation inequalities for random matrices]
- Ankur Moitra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Shay Moran (Technion, Israel) [Topic: PAC learning and beyond]
- Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira (IMPA, Brazil) [Topic: Optimal mean estimation and robust statistics]
- Alexandre Tsybakov (CREST-ENSAE Paris, France) [Topic: Online learning]
Speakers on Week 2:
- Arnab Bhattacharrya (University of Warwick, UK) [Topic: Causal discovery]
- Sinho Chewi (Yale University, USA) [Topic: Sampling]
- Kevin Jamieson (University of Washington, USA) [Topic: Bandits and reinforcement learning]
- Holden Lee (Johns Hopkins University, USA) [Topic: Sampling algorithms and diffusion models]
- Jasper Lee (University of California Davis, USA) [Topic: All-purpose mean estimation]
- Yuanyuan Lin (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) [Topic: Generative learning-based nonparametric statistics]
- James Saunderson (Monash University, Australia) [Topic: Sparsification]
- Claire Vernade (University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany)
- Van Vu (Yale University, USA) [Topic: Matrix perturbation bounds and their applications]
- Pengkun Yang (Tsinghua University, China) [Topic: Functional estimation]
- Pierre Youssef (New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) [Topic: Random matrices and deep neural networks]
| Date | Abstract | |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1: Mini-Courses | 22–26 Jun 2026 | N/A |
| Week 2: Research Talks | 29 Jun–01 Jul 2026 | N/A |
Location
Institute for Mathematical Sciences
National University of Singapore
Block S17, Level 3
10 Lower Kent Ridge Road
Singapore 119076