Winner of NIH NHLBI Big Data Analysis Challenge Award
Recipient of NSF CRII Award
Selected as Rising Star in EECS
James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship awardee
May 2025: Paper 'Adaptive Reward Design for Reinforcement Learning' accepted at UAI 2025
May 2025: Paper 'Counterfactual Explanations for Continuous Action Reinforcement Learning' accepted at IJCAI 2025
Jan. 2025: Two papers accepted at AAAI 2025: 'Quantitative Predictive Monitoring and Control for Safe Human-Machine Interaction' and 'Towards Computational Foreseeability'
Background
Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia
Member of Link Lab – Center of Excellence in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Research focuses on assuring the safety and trustworthiness of CPS
Prominent CPS examples include automated vehicles, medical devices, and smart cities
Current research directions: safety guarantees for AI-enabled CPS and building trustworthy human-CPS interactions