Published multiple papers in top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, etc. Received several awards including the 2017 MobiSys Best Paper Award, 2015 ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award, 2014 UIUC Distinguished Alumni Award, and more. IEEE Fellow (2019).
Research Experience
Associate Professor at Duke (2011), joined UIUC in Fall 2013, became a Professor at UIUC in 2017. Visited MSR Redmond, Intel, and Samsung AI. Member of the Signals and Inference Research Group @ Illinois (SiNRG).
Education
Ph.D. from CS/UIUC in 2006.
Background
Gilmore Family Endowed Professor, Amazon Scholar, in the Department of ECE and CS at UIUC. Research areas include generative models, blackbox optimization, inverse problems, NeRFs, audio denoising, and source separation.
Miscellany
Teaches courses like Deep Generative Models, Real-world Algorithms for IoT and Data Science, Communication Networks, and Computing for Non-Engineers.