- Over 200 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences on artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, web intelligence, and logic programming
- Program committee member of numerous international conferences
- Served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
- Co-organized the KDDCup2013
- Distinguished Research Award and Distinguished Teaching Award, UW Tacoma, 2025
- Distinguished Thesis Award for Steven Golob's master thesis on membership inference attacks, 2025
- PPMLHuskies announced as a winner of the U.S. PETs Prize Challenge, March 31, 2023
- Engineering & Technology Team Wins iDASH 2019 Competition
- Feature story about privacy-preserving machine learning work on UW Tacoma website
Research Experience
- Professor at the School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington Tacoma (USA)
- Guest professor at Ghent University
- Former research assistant and postdoctoral fellow supported by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders
- Visiting scholar in the BISC group at the University of California, Berkeley (USA)
- Visiting scholar at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University (USA)
- Associate professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics at Ghent University
Education
M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ghent University (Belgium).
Background
Holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, with research interests in privacy-preserving machine learning and AI for healthcare.