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Education

Postdoc Fellow    Columbia University                         2019-2021

      The Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

      Advisor: Dr. Liam Paninski and Dr. John Cunningham

Ph.D.                      Princeton University                        2015-2019

                               Computational and Quantitative Neuroscience, Statistics and Machine Learning

                               Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Pillow

M.S.                       University of Southern California   2011-2014 

                               Computer Science

B.S.                        Harbin Institute of Technology       2007-2011

                               Electronics and Information Engineering

Institute Affiliation

Machine Learning Center

Neuro Next Initiative @ GT

Center of Excellence in Computational Cognition (CoCo)

Bioengineering

Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS)

Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)

Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)

Selected Professional Service

Area Chair. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Area Chair. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Area Chair. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Area Chair. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Selected Awards & Recognition

2025 Kavli Fellow by National Academy of Sciences

2023 Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine initiated by the National Academies

2023 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience

2022 DARPA Riser

2018 Rising Star in EECS by MIT

Funding and Support

DARPA INSPIRE

NIH The BRAIN Initiative U01, R34

NSF IIS: Robust Intelligence

Sloan Foundation