# Professor Xi Chen is named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for his achievements in science

1 Faculty News January 3, 2017 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/profile/xi-chen-1/) -- "[Chen](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/xi-chen) studies machine learning, high-dimensional statistics and operations research. These lead to new learning methods and approaches for big data analysis, with applications for business, medicine, and more."

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