AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention by AMiner (2023)
Best Paper Award at CIKM'21 (2021)
Multiple NSF grants on topics including AI for food insecurity, community resilience for youth, dietary recommendations, and drug trafficking network detection
Papers accepted at top venues including ICML 2025 and NeurIPS 2025 (e.g., MASS, GPM, GIT, GraphTOP)
Served as Area Chair/Senior PC for ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.
Associate Editor for ACM TIST, TMLR, and DMKD
Background
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Connecticut (UConn)
Director of the Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS) Lab
Research interests center around machine learning and data science
Recently focused on foundational, resource-efficient, and safe machine learning algorithms and models, particularly on graph and text data
Applies research to domains including public health/healthcare, social media, information systems, recommender systems, and natural language processing
Publications primarily appear in top-tier AI, machine learning, and data science conferences