Resume
Academic Achievements
- IJCAI Early Career Spotlight (2025)
- ICBS Frontiers of Science Award (2024)
- NSF CAREER Award (2024)
- AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention by AMiner (2023)
- Best Paper Award at CIKM'21 (2021)
- Multiple NSF grants on topics including AI for food insecurity, community resilience for youth, dietary recommendations, and drug trafficking network detection
- Papers accepted at top venues including ICML 2025 and NeurIPS 2025 (e.g., MASS, GPM, GIT, GraphTOP)
- Served as Area Chair/Senior PC for ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.
- Associate Editor for ACM TIST, TMLR, and DMKD
Background
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Connecticut (UConn)
- Director of the Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS) Lab
- Research interests center around machine learning and data science
- Recently focused on foundational, resource-efficient, and safe machine learning algorithms and models, particularly on graph and text data
- Applies research to domains including public health/healthcare, social media, information systems, recommender systems, and natural language processing
- Publications primarily appear in top-tier AI, machine learning, and data science conferences