Resume
Research Interests
- Trustworthy Machine Learning; High-Dimensional Data Analysis; Bio-Inspired Machine Learning; Smart Grid
Professional Experience
- 2022 - Current: Assistant Professor, ECE, Illinois Institute of Technology
- 2020 - 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher/Lecturer, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- 2019 - 2020: Research In-Residence, IBM Research AI.
- 2014 - 2015: Research Intern, China Southern Power Grid.
- 2012 - 2012: Research Intern, ABB China.
Education
- 2016 - 2020: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
- 2013 - 2016: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
- 2009 - 2013: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. B.S. in Electrical Engineering.
Teaching Experience
- Instructor, ECE 572: Secure Machine Learning Design and Applications, Illinois Institute of Techology, Spring 2023.
- Instructor, EECS 452: Digital Signal Processing Design Laboratory, University of Michigan, Winter 2022.
- Guest Lecture, Trustworthy Machine Learning, CS 291A: Special Topics on Adversarial Machine Learning, UC Santa Barbara, 2022.
- Guest Lecture, RAILS: Robust Immune-inspired Learning System, CSE 891: Adversarial Machine Learning, Michigan State University, 2022.
- Guest Lecture, Introduction to Trojan Attack and Detection of Trojan Neural Networks, CSE 891: Adversarial Machine Learning, Michigan State University, 2022.
- Guest Lecture, Introduction to Trojan Attack and Detection of Trojan Neural Networks, CSE 891: Adversarial Machine Learning, Michigan State University, 2021.
- Privacy Protection and Information Extraction, Guest Lecture, Chongqing University, 2020.
Awards
- IBM/RPI AI Horizons Scholarship, 2019.
- Rensselaer’s Founders Award of Excellence, 2019.
- IBM Mass Lab 2019 Intern Showcase Best of Show 3rd Place, 2019.
- Comprehensive Fellowship of Tsinghua University, 2015.
- Guanghua Fellowship, 2014.
- Advanced Sports Individual of Tsinghua University, 2014.
- First Class Award of the 3rd Digital System Design and Innovative Competition of Tsinghua University, 2012.
- Technological Innovation Scholarship of Tsinghua University, 2012.
- First Class Award in National Biology Olympiad, 2008.
Invited Review & Program Committee Member
- Journal:
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
- Frontiers in Big Data
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- Neurocomputing
- CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
- Conference:
- 1st Workshop on New Frontiers in Adversarial Machine Learning at ICML’22
- ICLR 2022
- NeurIPS 2021
- ICML 2021
- AAAI 2021
- AAAI 2021
- 3rd Workshop on Adversarial Learning Methods for Machine Learning and Data Mining at KDD 2021
- ICML 2020
- Workshop on Adversarial Learning Methods at KDD 2020
- ICPAI 2020
- IEEE GlobalSIP 2018
- IEEE SmartGridComm 2018
- IEEE ISAP 2017
Mentoring Experience
- Guide Graduate/Undergraduate Students in AI Research, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2022 - Current.
- Guide Graduate/Undergraduate Students in AI Research, University of Michigan, 2020 - 2022.
Miscellaneous
- Champion of the RPI Student World Cup, 2018.
- Captain of the Department Soccer Team (triple crown), 2013-2015.
