Misc

Mentored Students

• Jincheng Mei, UAlberta PhD, now Research Scientist at Google Brain

• Zhuangdi Zhu, Michigan State University PhD, will be an Assistant Professor at George Mason University

• Chenjun Xiao, UAlberta PhD, will be an Assistant Professor at CUHK, Shenzhen

• Tongzheng Ren, UT Austin PhD

• Tianjun Zhang, UC Berkeley PhD

Awards

• 2017, NIPS Machine Learning for Molecules and Materials workshop Best Paper Award

• 2016, AISTATS Best Paper Award

• 2011-2012, Ross Fellowship

• 2008, Summa Cum Laude, Nanjing University

Professional Activities

• Organizer of Machine Learning Reading Group at Georgia Tech, 2014-2018.

• Area Chair of NeurIPS2021, ICML2021, ICLR2021, ICML2020, AAAI2020, AAAI2019.

• Program Committee of NeurIPS2019, UAI2019, ICML2019, AISTATS2019, NIPS2018, ICML2018, AISTATS2018, AAAI2018, ICML2017, KDD2017, AISTATS2017, AAAI2017, NIPS2017, ICML2016, AISTATS2016, NIPS2016,  NIPS2015, IJCAI2015, AISTATS2015, ICML 2014, NIPS2014.

• Reviewer of ICLR2019, ICLR2018,  KDD2015, AAAI 2014, SDM 2013,  AAAI 2012, IJCNN2015, IJCNN2014, IJCNN 2013.

• Reviewer of JMLR, SIAM OPT, MLJ, IEEE TPAMI/TIT/TSP/TAC, Neural Computation, Neurocomputing, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, JAIR, , Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.

Teaching Experience

• Brainiversity. Reinforcement Learning, Lecturer, Fall 2020.

• Georgia Institute of Technology. Machine Learning, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2015/Fall2016. 

• Purdue University.  Algorithm, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2013.