Early Career Award, The 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'19)
Best Paper Award, Proc. of 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'16), 2016
Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, 2016 - 2017
DS Lee Foundation Fellowship, 2015 - 2016
Best Demo Paper Runner-Up, Proc. of 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'13), 2013
Best Student Paper, Proc. of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007
Best Student Paper, Proc. of 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2007
Research Experience
Associate Professor at School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University; Founding Director of Pinnacle Lab for Analytics, 2013-2019; DBS-SMU Life Analytics Lab, 2015-2016.
Education
Ph.D. (2009), Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), co-advised by Prof. Jiawei Han and Prof. Jeff Erickson.
Background
Current research interests include large-scale constraint-based sequential, graph pattern mining and information/social network analysis, with applications on web, management information systems, business intelligence and bioinformatics. With a theoretical computer science background, also interested in algorithm design and complexity analysis for real-life problems in data mining and database systems.
Miscellany
Has served as the organizing committee chair, program committee member, and workshop co-chair for multiple international conferences; involved in organizing several workshops and symposiums.