bio
EDUCATION
Post-doc May 2017 - Aug. 2019, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Supervisor: Jiawei Han
Ph.D. May 2017, Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY
Thesis: Truth Discovery from Crowdsourced Data
Advisor: Jing Gao
M.S. 2012, Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
B.S. 2010, Information and Computational Science, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
MAJOR AWARDS
NSF CAREER AWARD
2023 CAREER: Achieving Quality Information Extraction from Scientific Documents with Heterogeneous Weak Supervisions
2023 Chinese Young Female Scholars in AI
2023. By Baidu
2022 Global Top Chinese Young Scholars in AI
2022. By Baidu
2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Database
2022. By AMiner
Participant of Rising Stars Workshop
2018. Rising Stars is an intensive workshop for women graduate students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic careers. A group of 60+ candidates is selected from the submitted applications.
UB CSE Best Dissertation Award
2017. My PhD dissertation titled “Truth Discovery from Crowdsourced Data” won the dissertation award by CSE department, University at Buffalo.
Best CSE Graduate Research Award
2015. This is the first research award for the graduate students in CSE department, University at Buffalo.
UB Presidential fellowship
as one of the recipients in Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the academic year 2012 to 2015. UB Presidential fellowship is a highly competitive fellowship, honoring only one Ph.D applicant in the CSE Department each year.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Conference Senior Program Committee
KDD, AAAI, SDM
Conference Program Committee
CIKM, ACL, WebConf, WSDM, etc
Workshop Organizer
MIS2-TrueFact (Joint meeting of the 4th TrueFact and the 3rd MIS2 workshop), in conjunction with SIGKDD 2022.
Third TrueFact Workshop: Making a Credible Web for Tomorrow, in conjunction with SIGKDD 2021.
Second TrueFact Workshop: Making a Credible Web for Tomorrow, in conjunction with SIGKDD 2020.
First International Workshop on “Truth Discovery and Fact Checking: Theory and Practice” (TrueFact) in conjunction with SIGKDD 2019, Anchorage, Alaska