Statistics of extreme values; tail inference, Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence, kernel PCA, Metric embeddings as related to computational problems and algorithms, Factorization of matrices, heavy tails, Applications of mathematical programming, angular measure, perturbation bounds, regular variation, Hilbert spaces with reproducing kernels (= (proper) functional Hilbert spaces, including de Branges-Rovnyak and other structured spaces), reproducing kernel Hilbert space