Currently a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he was a Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Rutgers University, Research Director at Tencent and Baidu Inc., and a Research Scientist at Yahoo Inc. and IBM.
Education
Received a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University; an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1996; and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1999.
Background
Research interests include machine learning algorithms and theory, statistical methods for big data and their applications. He is a fellow of ASA, IEEE, and IMS, and has been on the editorial boards of leading machine learning journals and program committees of top machine learning conferences.