Currently, a tenure-track assistant professor at the Florida State University Department of Computer Science.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2021; M.S., Computer Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, 2012; M.S., Minor, Mathematics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, 2012; B.S., Applied Mathematics & Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2010. During my Ph.D., I was advised by Prof. Judea Pearl, a recipient of the A.M. Turing Award.
Background
Primary research areas include causal inference, artificial intelligence, and causality-based decision-making, focusing on building causal models that estimate the effects of treatments (interventions) and evaluate what would have happened if an individual had received a specific treatment (counterfactuals). Passionate about modeling decision-making that incorporates knowledge of treatment effects and counterfactuals, as well as the application of causal-loss functions in machine learning models.