Published over 200 peer-reviewed papers; received several awards including Best Paper Awards at ACM SIGKDD, IEEE ICDM, and IEEE VAST conferences, and was a finalist of the INFORMS Franz Edelman Award Competition in 2011; serving on the editorial boards of ACM TIST, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, and Nature AI Journals; Senior Member of the IEEE and Distinguished Member of the ACM.
Research Experience
Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Education
Ph.D. from Cornell University; M.S. from Michigan State University
Background
Primary research interests: Generative AI and Trustworthy Machine Learning, aimed at creating robust, fair, and explainable models for Scientific Discovery and Real-World Impact.