2022/01: Four papers are accepted by The Web Conference (WWW) 2022. Congratulations to my students Yushun and Jing.
2022/01: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).
2022/01: One paper is accepted by ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST).
2021/10: One paper on graph counterfactual fairness is accepted by WSDM 2022. Congratulations to my student Jing.
2021/08: I am serving as the Managing Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST).
2021/08: One journal paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
2021/08: Six papers are accepted by CIKM 2021. Congratulations to my students Yushun and Song.
2021/07: Received the Cisco Faculty Research Award for "From Macro to Micro: Fairness-Aware Graph Neural Networks".
2021/06: Received the JP Morgan Chase Faculty Research Award for "Accountable Causal Inference for Financial Applications" .
2021/05: Two papers are accepted by KDD 2021 Research Track. Congratulations to my student Yushun for his first paper in my group.
2021/05: One tutorial on "Data Efficient Learning on Graphs" is accepted by KDD 2021.
2021/05: One paper on "Line Graph Neural Network" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).
2021/04: One paper on "Multi-Cause Causal Effects Estimation" is accepted by IJCAI 2021.
2021/04: Awarded an Undegraduate Supplement Award from UVA GIDI as PI to support undergraduate research ($10,000, 5/1/2021 - 04/30/2021).
2021/04: Awarded UVA 3Cavaliers Seed Grant for the project “Understanding Causality in Complex Systems via Network Guided Causal Inference” as PI ($60,000, 5/1/2021 - 10/30/2022).
2021/03: One patent granted, “Systems and methods for unsupervised streaming feature selection in social media”, US Patent 10,942,939; Date of Patent: 2021-03-09
2021/02: Selected for the AAAI 2021 New Faculty Highlights Program.
2021/02: Invited to serve on the editorial board of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM).
2021/01: One conference paper is accepted by The Web Conference, 2021.
2021/01: Co-organized 1st Workshop on AI for Anomalies and Novelties, co-located with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020.
2021/01: One journal paper is accepted by Information Sciences.
2021/01: One journal paper is accepted by IEEE Intelligent Systems.
2020/10: One journal paper is accepted by IEEE TKDE.
2020/10: Two papers are accepted by WSDM 2021. Congratulations to my student Jing for her first paper in my group.
2020/10: One full paper is accepted by ASONAM 2020.
2020/08: One full paper is accepted by EMNLP 2020.
2020/08: One survey paper is accepted by Information Sciences.
2020/08: Invited to serve as a Senior PC member of IJCAI 2021.
2020/08: Awarded a research grant from NSF for the project “III: Small: Collaborative Research: Demystifying Deep Learning on Graphs: From Basic Operations to Applications” as lead PI.
2020/08: Teaching ECE 6501/CS 6501 Convex Optimization for Engineering & Data Science the coming 2020 Fall Semester.
2020/08: One journal paper is accepted by KAIS.
2020/08: Invited to serve as a Senior PC member of IJCAI 2021.
2020/08: One journal paper is accepted by IEEE TKDE.
2020/07: Our feature selection survey paper is listed as the most cited paper of ACM CSUR within the past 5 years.
2020/07: Normee by the Dean of Graduate College at ASU for the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
2020/07: Invited to serve as a PC member of WSDM 2021, SDM 2021, and the Web Conference 2021.
2020/07: Two conference papers are accepted by CIKM 2020.
2020/05: Awarded UVA Eng-in-Med Faculty Fellow.
2020/05: Awarded COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant from UVA GIDI for the project “Quantifying the Impact of Data Sharing on Outbreak Dynamics” as PI.
2020/05: One journal paper is accepted by ECMLPKDD 2020 Journal Track.
2020/05: One journal paper is accepted by Neurocomputing.
2020/05: One journal paper is accepted by International Journal of Medical Informatics.
2020/04: One journal paper is accepted by ACM CSUR.
2020/04: Two conference papers are accepted by IJCAI 2020.
2020/04: One journal paper is accepted by IEEE TKDE.
2020/03: Invited to serve as a PC member of NeurIPS 2020, ECMLPKDD 2020, IEEE BigData 2020.
2020/02: Invited to serve as a PC member of CIKM 2020, ICWSM 2020.
2020/02: One conference paper is accepted by DASFAA 2020.
2020/01: Invited to serve as a PC member of KDD 2020, SIGIR 2020, and ASONAM 2020.
2019/12: One conference paper is accepted by SDM 2020.
2019/12: Invited to serve as a senior PC member of WebSci 2020.
2019/11: Invited to serve as a PC member of ICML 2020.
2019/11: One conference paper is accepted by AAAI 2020.
2019/10: Won 2019 INFORMS QSR Best Student Paper Finalist and Best Refereed Paper Finalist.
2019/10: Invited to serve as a Senior PC member of IJCAI 2020.
2019/10: One conference paper is accepted by WSDM 2020.
2019/08: One conference paper is accepted by ICDM 2019.
2019/08: One conference short paper is accepted by CIKM 2019.
2019/08: Invited to serve as a PC member of ICLR 2020.
2019/08: Invited to serve as a PC member of The Web Conference 2020.
2019/08: Invited to serve as a PC member of AAAI 2020.
2019/07: Our conference paper is accepted by IEEE VIS 2019 and IEEE TVCG.
2019/06: Invited to serve as a PC member of WSDM 2020.
2019/06: Invited to serve as Sponsor Chair of WSDM 2020.
2019/06: Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation