Delivered a New Faculty Highlights talk at AAAI’24; Received the NSF CRII Award; Recognized in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List; Leibniz Fellowship; Distinguished SPC award for IJCAI’23; Best paper awards/candidates at ECML PKDD’25, FAccT’23, ICDM’23, DAMI, and ICDM’21.
Research Experience
Currently an Assistant Professor at Florida International University; Formerly a Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University; Worked at multiple global research centers and institutions, including L3S Research Center, University of Milano-Bicocca, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Télécom Paris, George Mason University, and National Institutes of Health.
Education
Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University; Previously Assistant Professor at Michigan Technological University.
Background
Research interests: designing machine learning algorithms that provide theoretical performance guarantees and align with human values and societal goals. Particularly interested in combining the aspect of gaining machine learning knowledge with an orientation towards making machine learning usable and useful for high-stakes decision-making, such as healthcare, digital forensics, finance, climate, policy, and law.
Miscellany
Personal interests: spent four years in Beijing and Tianjin before studying abroad in Newfoundland, where it used to snow in June (no longer due to global warming).