- DOE Early Career Research Program (ECRP) Awardee in 2023
- Sole winner of the Hong Kong 2015 Young Scientist Award in Physical/Mathematical Science
- Recipient of multiple NSF grants
- SIGMOD 2025 Distinguished Reviewer Award
- IEEE PacificVis 2025 Honorable Mention
- 2024-2025 Luddy Faculty Fellow Award ($25,000)
- ICDE 2024 Best Demo Runner-Up Award
- Senior Member of ACM
- Senior Member of IEEE
- Reviewer for multiple international conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, CVPR, ICCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICDE, ACL, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGSPATIAL, SIGIR, IPDPS, SSTD, etc.
Research Experience
- Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington
- Supervised multiple PhD students and involved in various research projects
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2014
- B.S. in Computer Science, Fudan University, 2009
Background
- Associate Professor
- Research interests include parallel and distributed systems for big data analytics, data management, data mining, and machine learning
- Currently looking for PhD students interested in big data systems, data mining, and machine learning