Recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
2021 IEEE DSAA Next Generation Data Scientist Award.
2022 ICDM Tao Li Award for excellence in early-career researchers.
Published multiple papers at top venues, including two short papers at The Web Conference 2024—one on tensor-based multi-modal news categorization with Seekr, and another introducing a GPT text detection benchmark using tensor methods.
Presented work at conferences such as SIAM SDM 2024 and ITA 2024; delivered invited talks at GraphEx 2024 and TrustLOG@WWW workshop.
Research Experience
Currently Associate Professor and Ross Family Chair in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of California Riverside.
Conducts broad research in data mining, machine learning, and data science.
In 2024, co-led an NSF-funded project with The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley: 'Trustworthy AI for Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems'.
Co-organized the Data Science Challenge with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the fourth consecutive year.
Co-organized the 2024 Data Science High School Summer Camp at UCR.