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 Brain and Mind Institute and the Vector Institute. I also hold joint/adjunct positions in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences and the School of Biomedical Engineering at Western. 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.

• [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 by AAAI 2026. Congrats to Hao and Ruiyi!

• [Oct 2025] I will serve as an Associate Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). 

• [Oct 2025] Ruizhi Pu has successfully 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 by NeurIPS 2025. Congrats to Zhihao and Jiale, both first-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.

• [Jun 2025] One paper has been accepted by Bernoulli. Congrats to Hui!

• [May 2025] Two papers from our group have been accepted by ICML 2025. Congrats to Ruiyi and Ganyu!

• [Apr 2025] One paper has been accepted by 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 by 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 will serve as an Associate Editor for Neural Networks. 

• [Dec 2024] Four papers [1, 2, 3, 4] from our group have been accepted by 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 by 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 by ICML 2024. Congrats to Gezheng!

• [Apr 2024] I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024.

• [Apr 2024] One paper from our group has been accepted by IJCAI 2024. Congrats to Nima!