Research interests: 

My research interests include reinforcement learning, machine learning, statistical signal processing and information theory.

Current research projects include:

• Machine learning and Reinforcement learning

• Robust machine learning and statistical inference

• Quickest change detection and sequential analysis

Short Bio:

I am an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York from 2018 to 2024. I was a postdoc at Coordinated Science Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Jul 2016 to Aug 2018, supervised by Prof. Venugopal V. Veeravalli. I completed the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in May, 2016, supervised by Prof. Yingbin Liang. I received the B. E. degree (with honors) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. I received the NSF CRII Award (2020), NSF CAREER Award (2024), DARPA YFA Award (2024), the 2023 AAAI Distinguished Paper Award and UB Exceptional Scholar: Young Investigator Award (2024). I am currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research. I have also served as Area Chair for Neurips and ICLR.

To Prospective Students 

• PhD students: Students with strong backgrounds in machine learning, signal processing, mathematics, and statistics are encouraged to email me about potential positions in our group. Please include your resume, undergraduate/graduate transcripts.

• Research Opportunities for Undergraduate/Master Students: Both master and undergraduate students at ASU are encouraged to discuss with me if you are interested in my research.

• Visiting scholars/students are also highly welcome.

Honers and Awards

• DARPA YFA Award (2024)

• NSF CAREER Award (2024)

• UB Exceptional Scholar: Young Investigator Award (2024)

• AAAI Distinguished Paper Award (2023)

• NSF CRII Award (2020)