Resume
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the KDD 2025 Dissertation Award for dissertation titled 'Computational Methods for Human Networks and High-Stakes Decisions'
- Awards include KDD Best Paper Award, Google Research Scholar Award, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Meta PhD Fellowship, EECS Rising Stars, and Rising Stars in Data Science
- Work featured by over 650 news outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post
- Two papers accepted to ACL 2025 main conference: one on large-scale user studies for human-AI interaction evaluation, another on predicting public opinion with LLMs
- Paper on LLM-generated social networks accepted to ICWSM 2025, revealing realistic structural features but overestimation of political homophily
- Published in Nature Communications (2024) on vaccine-seeking behavior using graph ML and anonymized search logs
- Perspective article on AI for infectious disease modeling published in Nature (2025)
- Oral presentation at AAAI'25, panelist at CHI'25, plenary talk at IC2S2, and presentations at ICML and other venues