my profile

Sui Tang

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Affiliated with Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
The Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation (CCDC)
The Center for Responsible Machine Learning
University of California, Santa Barbara
552 University Rd, Isla Vista, CA 93117
Email: suitang@ucsb.edu

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a position I've held since 2024 after initially joining UCSB in 2020.

I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University in 2016 under the guidance of Professor Akram Aldroubi. Prior to my appointment at UCSB, I worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where I was a member of Professor Mauro Maggioni's research group.

I am interested in solving problems in the mathematical foundations of Data Science. My current research projects are motivated by the need to exploit dynamical data sets in complex physical systems to perform inference with provable performance and build generalizable and interpretable predictive models, where I used and developed techniques from Statistical/Machine Learning, Harmonic Analysis, Approximation Theory, and Probability. My research can be categorized to the following two areas: My research efforts have been generously supported by grants from the Simons Foundation, the Hellman Family Foundation, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). I am particularly honored to be the recipient of NSF CAREER Award 2340631, which currently funds my research. Additionally, I hold a visiting scientist position at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, where I participated in the program "Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling". You can view my talk at the Simons Institute workshop, highlighting my recent work on stochastic systems of interacting particles.

Postdoc position@UCSB: : If you are interested in working with me, please apply for the visiting assistant professor position at UCSB via mathjobs and send me an email of your CV.

RA position(for both undergraduate and graduate)@UCSB: : If you are interested in exploring mathematics of cutting edge AI, please send me an email of your CV and transcript. The prerequisite are Math 201ABC or PSTAT197ABC or PSTAT 207, and 231.

Independent Study(for both undergraduate and graduate)@UCSB: : I am interested in modern data science topics. If you have interest in exploring a topic by paper reading or book reading, please feel free to send me an email of your CV and transcript, including a description of what kind of topics you want to explore.

Current teaching

Graduate students

  • Charles Kulick, 2022- present
  • Dongyang Li, 2023-present
  • Harry Yu (master@UCSB, co-advise with Dr. Yu Guo), 2022-2023. Placement: Graduate student@Purdue
  • Jason Miller (PHD in applied math@JHU,co-advise with Dr.Mauro Maggioni), 2019-2020. Placement: Quantitative Research/Machine Learning at Tower Research
  • Undergraduate students

  • Kathryn Lv, 2025-present
  • Zhida Wang, 2025-present
  • Siji Chen, 2023-present. Placement: PhD @ Applied Math, Princeton
  • Yao Qing, 2022-2024. Placement: PhD @ linguistic, UT Austin
  • Hanying Feng, 2022-2023. Placement: Graduate student@ Harvard
  • Yangyi Zhang, 2021-2022. Placement: Graduate student@Columbia
  • Tim Chung, Dongyang Li (Placement: Graduate student@UCSB), Shelby Malowney (Placement: AUSGAR Technologies Inc), Ritwik Trehan (Placement: Strategyn Inc), 2021 REU UCSB
  • Jiahui Cheng, 2019-2020. Placement: Graduate student @Gatech
  • Cassandra Lem, 2020 Fall. Placement: graduate student @MSU
  • Noa Nabeshima, 2020 Fall
  • Publications: Google Scholar

    Recent travels/talks