Statistical methodology and machine learning algorithms. In particular, problems involving high dimensionality and where one can explore such structures as sparsity and continuity. Recent focus has been on clustering.
Large scale computational statistics for problems with combinatorial structures such as sequences, trees and networks.
Applied statistics (modeling, inference and algorithmic development for
real-world problems that involve uncertainty). Past applied work
includes
analysis of web logs for automatic detection of malicious web traffic
isolation and recognition of patterns over high dimensional continuous data
stream
analysis of remote sensing imagery for land-cover applications.
Data mining, computational biology, large scale social network mining,
computer vision, wireless and computer networking.