Received the 2022 SIGIR Test of Time Award Honorable Mention, the 2020 CIKM Test of Time Award, and several Best Paper (Candidate) awards. Research has been supported by an NSF CAREER award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, and multiple grants from Google, Amazon, AFOSR, DARPA, and the NSF.
Research Experience
Published papers in major venues such as KDD, EMNLP, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, AAAI, RecSys, and more. Served as General Co-Chair of WSDM 2020 and as a Senior Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, as well as on the Senior Program Committee of many venues.
Education
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Background
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and a Visiting Researcher at Google DeepMind. Research interests include developing trustworthy, resilient, and responsible machine learning algorithms and systems, particularly in personalization, efficiency, and AI risks in domains like LLMs, recommender systems, conversational systems, and speech.
Miscellany
Personal interests include traveling, playing guitar, coffee, biking, and canoeing.