Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Data Min-ing with applications to Computer Vision, Information Retrieval, Social Net-work Analysis, Health Informatics, and Big Data Analytics

Education

2007-2011, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2004-2007, M.Eng. in Computer Science, Nanjing University
2000-2004, B.Sc. in Computer Science, Nanjing University

Professional Experience

2019-present, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
2017-2019, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2015-2017, Research Associate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2012-2015, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
2011-2012, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2011, Visiting Scholar, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Honors

Overseas High-Caliber Personnel (Level B), Shenzhen 2019
Best Paper Award, PAKDD Conference 2019
Young National Distinguished Scholar, China 2019
Distinguished Senior Program Committee Member, IJCAI Conference 2018
Outstanding Reviewer, ICML Conference 2018
Best Student Paper Award, WI Conference 2013
Advanced Individual, Shenzhen Virtual University Park 2013
Research Travel Award, HKUST 2012
SENG PhD Research Excellence Award, HKUST 2011
Overseas Research Award, HKUST, 2011
Best Paper Award, UAI Conference 2010
Research Travel Awards (NIPS, UAI, AISTATS) 2010
Champion, Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition, IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter 2010
Research Travel Award, HKUST 2009
Second Runner-Up Award, Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition, IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter 2009
Postgraduate Scholarship, HKUST 2007~2011
Best Paper Award, Jiangsu Province Computer Society, China 2005
Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship, Nanjing University 2001~2004

Grants

Poisson-Regression-based Model Prediction on The Number of Infected Cases for Epidemics (PI, NSFC-61305071, China, January 2014 - December 2016)
Dynamic Diusion Networks Based on Context Information (PI, FRG2/13-14/039, HKBU, June 2014 - May 2015)
`New Class Discovery' and Its Applications (Co-I, NSFC-61473087, China, January 2015 - December 2018)
Analysis and Design on Obtaining Labels for Data by Crowdsourcing (Co-I,NSFC-61673202, China, January 2017 - December 2020)
Study on the Genotype-Phenotype-Molecular Mechanism Correlation of Corneal Dystrophies based on Precision Medicine (Co-I, NSFC-81870630, China, Jan-
uary 2019 - December 2022)

Journal Reviewer

Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Machine Learning
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B
IEEE Transactions on Big Data
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Neural Computation
National Science Review
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
Pattern Recognition
Physica A
Knowledge and Information Systems
Pattern Recognition Letter
Information Sciences
Neurocomputing
Applied Intelligence

Conference (Senior) PC Member

IJCAI (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
AAAI (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
UAI (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
NIPS/NeurIPS (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
ICML (2014, 2016, 2018)
AISTATS (2017, 2019, 2020)
ICLR (2018, 2019, 2020)
KDD (2015, 2016, 2017)
ICPR (2014, 2016)
ACML (2013, 2017, 2018, 2019)
PRICAI (2014, 2016, 2018, 2019)
NAACL-HLT (2019)
EMNLP-IJCNLP (2019)
ICDM (2015)
SDM (2013)
CIKM (2017)