Serving as Senior Area Chair for ICML 2026, AISTATS 2026, ICLR 2026, NeurIPS 2025, and Area Chair for AISTATS 2025, CVPR 2025, ICLR 2025
Member of the NeurIPS Organizing Committee for three consecutive years
Paper 'Stochastic ISTA/FISTA Adaptive Step Search Algorithms for Convex Composite Optimization' accepted by Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA), co-authored with Katya Scheinberg (Georgia Tech) and Trang H. Tran (Cornell)
Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2024 on topics including nonconvex-concave minimax optimization, interpretable time-series classification, and federated prompt-tuning under data imbalance
Three papers accepted to ICASSP 2025 on correlated attention in Transformers, dilated convolution for time series, and foundation model-guided few-shot action recognition
One paper accepted to IEEE ICDM 2024 on noise-aware self-supervised learning for time series encoding
Nomination 'Granite Time Series Foundation Models' selected for 2024 IBM Research Outstanding Accomplishments (O-level)