Google Scholar Profile

Research Interest

• Affective Computing

• Brain-Computer Interface

• Computational Intelligence

• Machine Learning

Education

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA May 2009

• M.Eng, Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore June 2005

• B.E, Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China July 2003

Major Honors & Awards

• Best Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems    2018

• Early Career Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society    2017

• 13th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference     2015

• German-American Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering    2015

• Early Career Award, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS)  2014

• Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems    2014

• Heidelberg Laureate Forum (Abel/Fields/Turing), Heidelberg, Germany     2013

• Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society     2012 

• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems     2005

Other Honors & Awards

• 1st Place, IEEE WCCI Competition: Open Source Intelligence Discovery for Cybersecurity Threat 2018

• 3rd Place, Shenzhen Int'l Competition for Medical and Health Big Data Innovative Application    2018

• Hanxiang Early Career Award Honorable Mention, Chinese Psychological Society    2018

• Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP)    2017

• Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Brain Initiative     2016

• Most Influential Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing      2015

• CIO 100 Award (Fleet Optimizer for GE Capital), CIO Magazine    2014

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  2014

• Above and Beyond Awards (10 times), GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY 2010-2014

• CIO 100 Award (TrueSense for GE Water), CIO Magazine    2012

• Viterbi Best Thesis Award Nominee, University of Southern California     2009

• Walter Karplus Summer Research Grant, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society     2007

• Travel Grant, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, London, UK     2007