I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario (Western University), and an affiliated faculty member in the Vector Institute. Before joining Western, I was a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, with Eric Eaton, and Princeton University, with Kenneth Norman. Before that, I received my Ph.D degree from McGill University under the supervision of Joelle Pineau, my M.Sc. degree from the University of Macau under the supervision of Dr. Feng Wan, and my B.Eng. degree from Tianjin University. Currently, I am primarily working on trustworthy machine learning, which is essential for building an intelligent agent in the real world with any amount of versatility. On the application side, I am interested in applying these techniques to computer vision/graphics, natural language processing, biomedical engineering, neuroscience, etc.
[Apr 2025] Six papers (including one spotlight) have been accepted to ICML 2026. Congrats to Ganxi, Gezheng, Jiale, Mohammad (1st year PhD), Qiuhao, and Zihao!
[Apr 2025] Hui received the Robert and Ruth Lumsden Graduate Award from Western University. Congrats to Hui!
[Mar 2026] I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026.
[Feb 2026] Qiuhao has defended his thesis and will be joining the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral associate. Congrats to Qiuhao!
[Feb 2026] Gezheng has defended her thesis and will remain in my group as a Fields postdoctoral fellow. Congrats to Gezheng!
[Feb 2026] Calvin received the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA). Congrats to Calvin!
[Jan 2026] Four papers have been accepted to ICLR 2026. Congrats to all Ruiyi, Song, Zhihao, and Zihao!
[Jan 2026] I serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS).
[Jan 2026] Gezheng received the Fields Postdoctoral Fellowship from Western University. Congrats to Gezheng!
[Nov 2025] Our collaborative project, Pin-AI, received four years of funding from NSERC and CIHR as part of the Canada-France artificial intelligence program.
[Nov 2025] I will serve as an Area Chair for ICML 2026.
[Nov 2025] Three papers from our group have been accepted to AAAI 2026. Congrats to Hao and Ruiyi!
[Oct 2025] I serve as an Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
[Oct 2025] Ruizhi Pu has defended his thesis and will be joining Southeast University as an assistant professor. Congrats to Ruizhi!
[Sep 2025] One paper from our group has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025. Congrats to Zhihao and Jiale, both 1st year PhD students.
[Aug 2025] I will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026.
[Aug 2025] I will serve as an Area Chair for AISTATS 2026.
[Aug 2025] Mohammad received the Western Doctoral Excellence Award from Western University. Congrats to Mohammad!
[Jul 2025] Yan received the Western Postdoctoral Fellowship from Western University. Congrats to Yan!
[Jul 2025] Ganyu has defended his thesis and will be joining Huawei Canada as a research scientist. Congrats to Ganyu!
[Jun 2025] One paper has been accepted by Bernoulli. Congrats to Hui!
[May 2025] Two papers from our group have been accepted to ICML 2025. Congrats to Ruiyi and Ganyu!
[Apr 2025] Gezheng received the Robert and Ruth Lumsden Graduate Award from Western University. Congrats to Gezheng!
[Apr 2025] One paper has been accepted to IJCAI 2025. Congrats to Pengcheng!
[Apr 2025] One paper has been accepted by TMLR. Congrats to Pengcheng and Li!
[Feb 2025] Two papers from our group have been accepted by CVPR 2025. Congrats to Pengcheng and Hao!
[Feb 2025] I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.
[Feb 2025] One paper [1] has been accepted by IEEE TPAMI. Congrats to Yuting!
[Jan 2025] One paper [1] has been accepted by IEEE TPAMI. Congrats to Gezheng and Li!
[Jan 2025] Four papers [1, 2, 3, 4] from our group have been accepted to ICLR 2025. Congrats to Ruiyi, Gezheng, Hui, Qiuhao, and Ganyu!
[Jan 2025] Changjian Shui will be joining the University of Ottawa as an assistant professor. Congrats to Changjian!
[Dec 2024] I serve as an Action Editor for Neural Networks.
[Dec 2024] Four papers [1, 2, 3, 4] from our group have been accepted to AAAI 2025. Congrats to Ruizhi, Pengcheng, Hao, and Maxwell!
[Nov 2024] I will serve as an Area Chair for ICML 2025.
[Sep 2024] Two papers from our group have been accepted to NeurIPS 2024. Congrats to Qiuhao and Hui!
[Sep 2024] I will serve as an Area Chair for AISTATS 2025.
[Aug 2024] I will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2025.
[May 2024] One paper from our group has been accepted to ICML 2024. Congrats to Gezheng!
[Apr 2024] I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024.
[Apr 2024] Zhimin and Jincheng received the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence from the Vector Institute. Congrats to Zhimin and Jincheng!
[Apr 2024] One paper from our group has been accepted to IJCAI 2024. Congrats to Nima!