IEEE Fellow (2021, for contributions to graph mining); IEEE ICDM 2022 10-Year Highest Impact Paper Award; Springer Knowl. Inf. Syst. (KAIS) on 'Best-ranked paper of ICDM 2022'; Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (2022); Excellent Paper Award, IEEE Big Data Mining and Analytics (2021); Best Student Paper Runner-up (IEEE). Served as PC co-chairs for multiple top conferences.
Research Experience
Leading the IDEA Lab@UIUC, focusing on projects such as safe graph neural networks, diffusion history reconstruction, optimal deep graph learning, fair network learning, network correspondence, teams in big networks, and network robustification.
Education
No specific educational background information provided.
Background
Professor & University Scholar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research interests include large scale data mining, machine learning, and AI, especially for graph and multimedia data with applications to social networks analysis, healthcare, cyber-security, cyber-physical systems, agriculture, and e-commerce.
Miscellany
Teaches several courses including CS512: Data Mining Principles, CS514: Advanced Topics in Network Science, CS412: Introduction to Data Mining, and more.