Service
Society Activities
Elected as Board Member in Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Division of IIE, 2015~2017
Chair, Best Student Paper Competition in the Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Division of ISERC Annual Conference 2015
Elected as Council Member in Data Mining Subdivision of INFORMS, 2013~present
Newsletter Editor in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability subdivision of INFORMS, 2014~present
Judge of Best Student Paper Competition in Data Mining Subdivision of INFORMS Annual Conferences, and Best Student Paper Competition in the Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Division of ISERC Annual Conference, since 2012
Conference Organizing Activities
Co-Chair for the 1st International Workshop on Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning, in conjunction with 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2016
Co-Chair (with Dr. Mustafa Baydogan and Dr. Asil Oztekin) for the Data Mining and Analytics Workshop at INFORMS 2015
Cluster Chair for Data Mining Cluster at INFORMS Health Care 2015
Organizer of the BigBrain Mini-Symposium at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2015)
Session Chairs for Subdivisions of Quality, Statistics and Reliability, Data Mining, and Health Applications at INFORMS from 2011 ~ present
Editorial Board
Associate Editor, IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2016 - present
Associate Editor, Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 2016 - present
Guest Editor: EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, for the special issue - Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning, 2016
Guest Editor: Brain Informatics, for the Special Issue on Computational Methods for Neuroimaging Data Analysis, 2015-2016
Associate Editor, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2015-2016
Journal and Conferences Reviewers
NIPS, KDD, ICML, SDM, IJCAI, Technometrics, IIE Transactions, Annals of Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetic, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Neuroimage, PLOS one, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, Journal of Manufacturing Systems
Membership
Institute for Operation Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Honors and Awards
Honorable Mention, for paper “High-dimensional Process Monitoring and Change Point Detection using Embedding Distributions in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS)”, IIE Transactions Focused Issue on Quality and Reliability Engineering Best Applications Paper Award Competition, 2016
Feature Article in IIE Magazine, for paper “High-dimensional Process Monitoring and Change Point Detection using Embedding Distributions in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS)”, Oct. 2014
Best Paper Award, IIE Transactions Best Paper – Quality & Reliability Engineering, for “A Transfer Learning Approach for Network Modeling”, 2014
Outstanding Graduate Award, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 2012
University Graduate Fellowship Award, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 2012
Finalist of Best Student Paper Competition in Quality, Statistics and Reliability Subdivision of INFORMS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 2011, paper title: Hypergraph-based Gaussian Process Models with Qualitative and Quantitative Input Variables
Finalist of Best Student Paper Competition in Data Mining Subdivision of INFORMS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 2011, paper title: Brain Effective Connectivity Modeling for Alzheimer's Disease by Sparse Gaussian Bayesian Network
Best Poster Award (2nd Place), in Quality, Statistics and Reliability Subdivision of INFORMS Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 2011
Dissertation Poster Award (2nd Place), Doctoral Colloquium Dissertation Poster Competition of Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Reno, NV, May. 2011
Feature Article in IIE Magazine, for paper “Regression-based Process Monitoring with Consideration of Measurement Errors”, Jan. 2010