Hien Dang

Welcome, and thank you for visiting! My name is Hien, I am a third-year PhD student at Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Texas at Austin, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Alessandro Rinaldo and Prof. Pratik Patil.

Previously, I worked as an AI resident at FPT Software AI Center, where I was mentored by Prof. Nhat Ho, Prof. Tan Nguyen and Dr. Hung The Tran. I received my bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Science, Vietnam National University.

My research interests lie broadly in statistical machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, and theory of deep learning. Specifically, I am interested in and have worked on:

• Statistical foundation for distillation and learning with synthetic data using tools from high-dimensional statistics, such as exact asymptotics and random matrix theory.
• Learning under data contamination and distribution shifts.
• The structure of neural network representations, particularly phenomena such as neural collapse and posterior collapse.

Here is my Google Scholar and CV.

My email address: hiendang@utexas.edu

Please feel free to reach out for discussions!