Kevin R. Moon

Kevin R. Moon received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University, the MS degree in mathematics and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, respectively. He is an assistant professor with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University (USU). Prior to joining USU in 2018, he was a postdoctoral scholar (2016-2018) with the Genetics Department and the Applied Mathematics Program, Yale University. His research interests are in the development of theory and applications in machine learning, information theory, deep learning, and manifold learning. More specifically, he is interested in dimensionality reduction, data visualization, ensemble methods, nonparametric estimation, information theoretic functionals, neural networks, and applications in biomedical data, finance, engineering, and ecology.