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Dennis Shen

  • Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations

Dennis is an assistant professor in the Data Sciences and Operations Department at the USC Marshall School of Business. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Before joining USC, he was a FODSI postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley. He also served as a technical consultant for Uber Technologies and TauRx Therapeutics. 

Dennis's research interests lie at the intersection of causal inference, high-dimensional statistics, and machine learning. He has received several recognitions for his work, including the INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award (2nd to his esteemed colleague, Somya) and MIT George Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence & Decision-making. 

Dennis Shen
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Areas of Expertise

Causal Inference
Data Algorithms
Econometrics
Healthcare Analytics
Machine Learning
Statistical Inference

Programs

Data Sciences + Operations PhD

Departments

Data Sciences + Operations

NEWS + EVENTS

NEWS + EVENTS

COURSES

Spring 2025
  • BUAD-310
    Applied Business Statistics
    Statistical methods for business analysis; data exploration and description; sampling distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression; model building. Extensive computer applications. (Duplicates credit in BUAD 312 and the former ITP 251.)
Spring 2024
  • BUAD-310
    Applied Business Statistics
    Statistical methods for business analysis; data exploration and description; sampling distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression; model building. Extensive computer applications. (Duplicates credit in BUAD 312 and the former ITP 251.)