Survey paper “Investigating and Mitigating Barren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Circuits: A Survey” accepted by Quantum Information Processing (QIP) journal (Jan 2025)
Paper “Blockchain for large language model security and safety: A holistic survey” accepted (Aug 2024)
Co-organized TRAI workshop and served as session chair at CIKM’24
Reviewer for NeurIPS, AAAI, KDD, CIKM, AISTATS, TKDE, TNNLS, etc.
Panelist for NSF’24 and DOE’24
Mentors Ph.D. and M.S. students; collaborates on top-tier conference/journal publications
Research Experience
Assistant Professor, Boise State University (Jul 2023 – present)
Ph.D. Software Engineer Intern, Uber Technologies, Inc. (Summer 2022)
Algorithms and Advanced Analytics Intern, Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. (Summer 2021)
Research Intern, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Summer 2020)
Foreign Exchange Trading Specialist, China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. (Jan 2014 – Jul 2016)