Published over 500 papers in top-tier venues including AI, IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TEC, IEEE TFS, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TIP, IEEE TC, IEEE/ACM ASLP, IEEE TIE, IEEE TVT, ACM TIST, Chinese Science, Journal of Software, Journal of Computer Research and Development, etc., and conferences such as ACL, CVPR, ICCV, ICDE, ICML, IJCAI, KDD, UbiComp, WWW, ICDM, CIKM, EMNLP
Over 300 SCI-indexed and 400 EI-indexed papers
5 ESI Hot Papers and 22 ESI Highly Cited Papers
Over 29,000 Google Scholar citations; H-index: 84
Granted 36 invention patents and 3 software copyrights
Authored/edited 10 books published by Science Press
Edited 12 SCI journal special issues, 1 EI journal special issue, and 18 conference proceedings (published by IEEE, Springer, World Scientific, etc.)
Editor-in-Chief of Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (EI); Associate Editor of ACM TIST (SCI, IF: 3.566); Regional Editor of IJCIS (SCI, IF: 2.251); Editorial board member of Information Fusion (SCI, IF: 17.97), Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University, Journal of Computer Applications, Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applications, and Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Magazine
Awards include: National Teaching Achievement Award (Second Prize), MOE Natural Science Award (Second Prize, Rank 1), Chongqing Natural Science Award (First Prize, Rank 2), Special Prize of China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award, Second Prize of the Fourth China Tibetology Research Zhufeng Award (Rank 2), Third Prize of Tibet Autonomous Region Science and Technology Award (Rank 2), Sichuan Provincial Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards (Second and Third Prizes), Sichuan Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards (Second and Third Prizes), Zhan Tianyou Special Award, Tang Lixin Outstanding Scholar Award, Lu’s Outstanding Young Teacher Award, Hongyu and Lu Scholarships
Supervised students awarded CCF and CAAI Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nominations, 7 ACM Chengdu Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards (and 3 nominations), 4 IEEE Chengdu Outstanding Student Paper Awards, multiple international/national conference best paper awards
Student teams won 1st place in 2015 Tianchi Weibo Interaction Prediction Challenge (¥200,000 prize), 2nd in 2016 IJCAI Social Influence Analysis Competition, 3rd in 2016 Tianchi Guangdong Aviation Big Data Challenge, 2nd in 2018 AI Weather Forecasting Global Challenge, Grand Prize in 2019 National AI Innovation Competition for Universities, ACM-ICPC Asia Gold Medal, and the sole Grand Prize in the 1st “Top Embedded Cup” National C Programming Contest
Graduates employed at Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Sichuan University, Huawei, JD, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, etc.
Research Experience
Led over 20 research projects including National Key R&D Programs and NSFC grants (8 national-level projects)
Taught courses including Data Mining, Computational Intelligence, and Discrete Mathematics
Delivered 36 keynote and 3 tutorial talks at international conferences in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Poland, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand, etc.
Invited lecturer at numerous universities worldwide
Served as General Chair, Program Chair, or Organizing Chair for multiple international conferences
Core member of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Innovation Team on Cloud Service Platforms
Background
Dean of the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University; Professor and Doctoral Supervisor
Director of Sichuan Institute of Industrial Software Technology
Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province; Member of the University Academic Committee
Deputy Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Deputy Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Comprehensive Transportation Big Data Application Technology
Deputy Director of the National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Automatic Verification of System Trustworthiness
Director of the Key University Laboratory of Cloud Computing and Intelligent Technology of Sichuan Province
Principal Investigator of the National First-Class Undergraduate Program in Software Engineering
Fellow and Vice President of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS)
Council Member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI); Chair of CCF Chengdu Chapter
Chair of the Computer Education Steering Committee for Undergraduate Institutions in Sichuan Province
Vice President of the Sichuan Artificial Intelligence Society
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Cloud Computing and Big Data, Granular Computing and Rough Sets
Continuously listed in Elsevier's Most Cited Chinese Researchers and the World's Top 2% Scientists (Career-long Impact) since 2020