- Best Paper Award at WSDM 2024: 'Long Term Value of Exploration: Measurements, Findings and Algorithms'
- Guest Editor for Journal of Machine Learning
- Area Chairs for Neurips, ICML, ICLR, and RecSys
- Invited talks and keynotes at various international conferences and workshops, such as guest lecture at Stanford Graduate School of Business, keynote at 2024 International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, etc.
Research Experience
- Principal Research Scientist at Google Deepmind, leading the Gemini Game effort
- At Google Deepmind, led efforts on building conversational AI systems through RL and personalization
Education
PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, advised by Kilian Weinberger.
Background
Main research interests include reinforcement learning and bandits algorithms and their applications to recommendation and assistive systems. Led the Gemini Game effort at Google Deepmind and previously led efforts on building conversational AI systems through RL and personalization.