Selected as one of the Top 80 AI Chinese Female Young Scholars by Baidu Academic; Runner-up for Best Student Paper Award at ICDM 2021; Best Paper Award at SMP 2022; Annual Outstanding Paper Award from the Journal of Automation; Principal Investigator for 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 1 National Key R&D Program project; Editorial Board Member of Neural Networks (a top SCI journal); Area Chair of NeurIPS 2024; Senior PC member of AAAI 2019, AAAI 2021, IJCAI 2021, and AAAI 2022.
Research Experience
July 2023 to present, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University; July 2021 to June 2023, Distinguished Associate Professor (Special Researcher) and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University; July 2017 to June 2021, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University; July 2014 to June 2017, Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University.
Education
2019.09~2020.08: Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago; 2014.12~2015.08: Post-Doc Researcher at Dresden University of Technology, Germany; 2012.09~2013.10: Visiting PhD student at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA; 2010.09~2014.06: PhD in College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China; 2007.09~2010.07: MS in College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China; 2003.09~2007.07: BS in College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China.
Background
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Social Network Mining. Recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Excellent Young Scientists Fund.
Miscellany
Currently recruiting master students for 2025 and welcoming undergraduate students to join the lab; Located at Building 55, Peiyang Park Campus, Tianjin University.