Biography

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Before that, I earned the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, under supervision of Dr. Xia Hu. I have previously worked/interned with Baidu, JD Explore Academy, MSR, Adobe Research, and Intel. I also work closely with Dr. Ben Shneiderman of University of Maryland, and developed a website for Human-Centered AI.

My research interests lie within the extensive domain of trustworthy machine learning, with a particular emphasis on explainability, fairness, robustness, privacy, and security. Additionally, I am intrigued by the intersection of trustworthy machine learning with other applications, including but not limited to NLP (particularly large language models), health informatics, and information retrieval.

I’m actively looking for strong and motivated students. If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to email me. Please check here for more details.

News

05/2023: One paper on shortcut learning of LLMs gets accepted by Communications of the ACM
05/2023: One paper on LLMs representation debiasing accepted by ACL 2023
05/2023: One paper accepted by EUSIPCO 2023
04/2023: Grateful to receive one NJIT Faculty Seed Grant Award
04/2023: One paper accepted by ICML 2023
04/2023: One paper accepted by IJCAI 2023
04/2023: Invited to give a talk on ChatGPT at Jilin University
03/2023: Serving as Editorial Board Member of Journal of Information Analysis
03/2023: Invited to serve on the program committee at NeurIPS 2023
02/2023: Invited to give a talk on ChatGPT and machine translation at Chinese Translation Service Division of The United Nations (UN)
02/2023: Invited to serve on the program committee at ICCV 2023
01/2023: One paper accepted by EACL 2023
01/2023: Invited to serve on the program committee at ACL 2023
12/2022: Invited to serve on the program committee at ICML 2023
11/2022: Invited to serve on the program committee at CVPR 2023
10/2022: Invited to serve on the Senior program committee at IJCAI 2023; and program committee at KDD 2023 and WWW 2023
10/2022: Invited to the TWEB Distinguished Reviewer Board
09/2022: Hosted MLNLP seminar on Trustworthy AI
08/2022: Invited to be a reviewer for Nature Machine Intelligence
08/2022: Invited to serve on the program committee at AAAI and ICLR 2023
06/2022: Invited to serve on the program committee at EMNLP 2022
05/2022: Invited to give a talk on GNN explainability at DataFun on June 25
05/2022: One paper accepted by KDD 2022
05/2022: One paper accepted by ICML 2022
01/2022: One paper accepted by ICLR 2022