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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- September 2025: Elected as an Executive Member of CCF Expert Committee on Big Data.
- August 2025: Papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 and CIKM 2025.
- June 2025: Best Paper Award at IEEE DCOSS 2025 for RestoreML on test time training.
- May 2025: Paper on synthetic preference data generation accepted at ACL 2025.
- May 2025: Paper on polynomial graph filters for scalable GAD accepted at KDD 2025.
- January 2025: Paper on agentic continual pre-training accepted at NAACL 2025.
- December 2024: Paper on synthetic sensing data generation accepted at Infocom 2025.
- September 2024: Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2024 and Sensys 2024 respectively.
- July 2024: Tutorial proposal 'Towards Efficient Temporal Graph Learning: Algorithms, Frameworks, and Tools' accepted by CIKM 2024 Tutorial Track.
- May 2024: Hosted a challenge 'Characterizing User Behavior in Social Networks: Propagation, Prediction, and Sensemaking' in IEEE BigData Cup 2024.
- March 2024: Two papers accepted by SIGIR 2024.
- January 2024: One paper accepted by WWW 2024.
- September 2023: Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
- May 2023: Launched 'Anatomy of Conflict Tools', featuring end-to-end real-time social network analysis capabilities.
- May 2023: One paper accepted by ACL 2023.
- January 2023: One paper accepted by WWW 2023.
Research Experience
- July 2025 - Present: Beihang University, Tenure-Track Professor, Beijing, China.
- Aug 2024 - June 2025: Amazon SFAI, Applied Scientist II, CA, USA, Research topic: LLM Post-Training and Alignment.
- Jan 2024 - Aug 2024: CS@UIUC, Postdoctoral Research Associate, IL, USA.
- Jan 2023 - Aug 2024: SRC Research Scholars Program, Research Scholar, IL, USA, Research topic: Efficient Graph Learning on Large-scale Graphs.
- July 2019 - Dec 2023: CS@UIUC, Research Assistant, IL, USA.
- May 2022 - Oct 2022: Amazon Search (A9), Applied Scientist Intern, Search and NLP group, Palo Alto, CA, USA, Research topic: Cross-lingual Transfer.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2023, advised by Prof. Tarek F. Abdelzaher, and mentored by Prof. Jiawei Han and Prof. Hanghang Tong.
- Bachelor's degree from the Computer Science Department at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2019, conducted research under the guidance of Prof. Xinbing Wang and Prof. Weinan Zhang.
Background
Research Interests: Trustworthy and efficient AI in open and dynamic environments, at the intersection of language, graph, and time-series data. Developing multimodal foundation models and systems that harness structured knowledge for reliable perception, reasoning, and decision-making, with applications in recommender systems, agents, and AI for science.