Academic Experience
Assistant Professor, 2022 - Present,
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University.
Research Aide, May 2020 - Jan 2021,
Argonne National Laboratory.
Research Assistant, 2017 - 2022,
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Education
Ph.D. in Machine Learning and minor in Computer Science (Advisor: Yao Xie), 2017 - 2022.
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
B.S. & M.S. in Computer Science, 2010 - 2017.
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT).
Awards & Honors
Gen-AI Fellows, Fall 2024.
Spotlight, Deep Generative Models for Health (DGM4H) Workshop at NeurIPS 2023, Fall 2023.
Finalist of 2023 QSR Best Student Paper Competition, Awarded to Student Author (Zheng Dong), Fall 2023.
Finalist of Data Mining Best Applied Paper, 2023 INFORMS DMDA Workshop, Fall 2023.
Winner, 2023 YinzOR Poster Competition, Awarded to Student Author (Wenbin Zhou), Summer 2023.
Winner, 2022 INFORMS Data Mining Best Applied Paper, Fall 2022.
Runner-up, 2022 INFORMS Poster Competition, Fall 2022.
Best Student Paper Nominee at 2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, Fall 2022.
The Best of AOAS at 2022 JSM, Fall 2022.
Finalist of 2021 INFORMS Wagner Prize, Fall 2021.
Excellent Poster Award at Georgia Statistics Day, Fall 2021.
Finalist of Data Mining Best Applied Paper, 2021 INFORMS DMDA Workshop, Fall 2021.
George Leadership Development Fellows, Summer 2021.
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention), ICML Time Series Workshop 2021, Summer 2021.
ML@GT Fellows, Spring 2021.
Runner-up, 2020 INFORMS Data Mining Best Applied Paper, Fall 2020.
Second Place, Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition, INFORMS, Fall 2019.
Best Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention), Georgia Statistics Day, Fall 2019.
Best Student Poster Award, Georgia Statistics Day, Fall 2018.
Best Poster Presentation & Travel Award, ASA at 2018 Forecasting from Complexity Workshop, Spring 2018.
2018 Smart 50 Award, Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo, Spring 2018.
Best Business Prospect Award (First Place), Volkswagen Data Science Hackathon, Summer 2015.
Second Place, Freescale Cup 2013 Worldwide Championship and China Regional Finals, Summer 2013.
Professional Service
Chair Elect (2024-2025), Council Member (2023-2025), Cluster Chair (2025) of INFORMS Data Mining Society.
Associate Editor of Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.
Area Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS).
Journal Referee of Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Journal Referee of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B.
Journal Referee of Operations Research.
Journal Referee of Management Science.
Journal Referee of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Journal Referee of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
Journal Referee of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Journal Referee of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.
Journal Referee of INFORMS Journal on Data Science.
Journal Referee of INFORMS Journal on Computing.
Journal Referee of Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
Journal Referee of ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems.
Conference Reviewer for KDD, AISTATS, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, FAccT