I'm a senior research scientist in Yahoo Research's advertising science group, and focus on deep learning for ad tech and online user understanding in general. Before joining the industry, I was a PhD student at UCLA (Electrical Engineering, advisor Prof. Suhas Diggavi). My research interests include statistics and information theory with applications in machine learning, security and privacy. I'm also interested in applications of machine learning in smart cities and intelligent transportation systems. I have served as a reviewer for applied machine learning papers in major conferences (KDD, WWW, WSDM), and was a technical program committee member for ACM Safe Things Workshop (2017-2019).