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