- Multiple papers accepted by SIGSPATIAL'25, KDD, ACL, TKDE, ICDM, NeurIPS, etc.
- Served as program committee member for various international conferences such as KDD, IJCAI, PAKDD, etc.
- Best Paper Award of IEEE ICDM 2021
- Senior Member of the IEEE, 2021
Research Experience
- July 2023 - Present: Professor of Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HIT-SZ)
- Previously: Tenured Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in the Department of Business Analytics, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
- Affiliated faculty member with the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics (IGPI) and the Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences (AMCS) programs
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2014, advised by Prof. Shashi Shekhar
- M.S. in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology, 2009
- B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology, 2007
Background
Research interests include business analytics, informatics, and computational science. Previously a tenured Associate Professor and Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow in the Department of Business Analytics at the Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, and served as the director of graduate studies (DGS) during the 2022-2023 academic year. Since July 2023, he has been a Professor of Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HIT-SZ) in China.