Notable accomplishments: NIH R01 Award, INNS Doctoral Dissertation Runner-up Award, KAUST Rising Stars in AI, AAAI New Faculty Highlights, Snap Research Fellowship, Most Influential Papers in KDD and WWW by PaperDigest, top finishes in three NeurIPS competitions
Organizer, (senior) PC member, and reviewer for multiple international conferences and journals such as ICLR, KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, AISTATS, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, WSDM, CIKM, TPAMI, TKDE, TKDD, and TNNLS
Publications: High-Dimensional Time Series Forecasting, EpiLearn: A Python Library for Machine Learning in Epidemic Modeling, DeepRobust: A Platform for Adversarial Attacks and Defenses, DANCE: A Deep Learning Library and Benchmark for Single-Cell Analysis, etc.
Research Experience
Currently an Assistant Professor at Emory University, actively seeking highly-motivated students for Ph.D. or Research Intern positions. Research areas include Graph Neural Networks, Time-Series Analysis, AI for Epidemiology, etc.
Education
Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2023, supervised by Prof. Jiliang Tang
B.E. degree from Zhejiang University in 2019
Background
Research Interests: Graph Neural Networks, Time-Series Analysis (e.g., Forecasting and Classification), AI for Epidemiology, Science and Healthcare, Machine Learning Robustness and Interpretability, Large Language Models (LLMs)
Brief: Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Emory University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.