Working Experience

  • Research Assistant, Spring 2017 - Present

Themes: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computational Biology

    • Developing deep learning approaches for pixel-level predictions on biological images

Key techniques: U-Nets, CNNs, GANs, Attention mechanism, Skip connections

    • Investigating the interpretability of deep neural networks for both images and text models

Key techniques: Feature visualization, Optimization, Saliency map, Policy gradient, Discriminative learning, Reinforcement learning


  • Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Facebook, Summer 2020

    • Topic: Building Efficient Lightweight Baselines for Offline Explorations

Key techniques: Data sampling, Feature reduction


  • Summer Research Intern, NEC Labs America, Summer 2019

    • Topic: Multi-modal Information Retrieval via Deep Active Canonical Correlation Analysis

Key techniques: Deep CCA, Active learning, spectral clustering

Teaching Experience

  • Guest lectures at Texas A&M University CSCE 636, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020

Topic: Deep Learning interpretation by visualization

Service Experience

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)

  • The ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

  • ACM Computing Surveys

  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

  • Bioinformatics

Program Committee Member

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , 2019

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2020, 2021

  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2020, 2021, 2o22

  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2020, 2021

  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) , 2020, 2021