Recipient of the Fulbright Predoctoral Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State in 2015 and the Starr/Fieldhouse Research Fellowship from Illinois Tech in 2019. Member of IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE HKN, SIAM, and AAAS.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral researcher in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, advised by Dr. Prasanna Balaprakash. Currently, a Senior Applied Scientist with the IC3-AI team at Microsoft, focusing on advancing reinforcement learning technologies for bandwidth control in real-time communications.
Education
Received M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2016 and Ph.D. in 2021, both under the supervision of Dr. Lin Cai.
Background
Research interests span reinforcement learning, offline RL, safe RL, multi-fidelity RL, statistical machine learning, and data-driven optimization of next generation networks. Was a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and now a Senior Applied Scientist with the IC3-AI team at Microsoft.
Miscellany
Skills include programming languages (Python, C/C++, Matlab, etc.), software development tools (Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio Code, Git), and experience with embedded systems and network management.