Welcome!

Hello everyone! I’m a second year Ph.D student at University of Toronto working with Prof. Ashton Anderson. My research interests broadly lie in machine learning and data mining, in particular data-driven social science, human behavior modeling, knowledge representation learning and reasoning, and recommender systems. Besides research, my passion for sports has always been an integral part of who I am, with basketball, badminton, and billiards ranking high on my list of favorites. Always eager to connect with fellow sports enthusiasts and academicians, I look forward to getting to know you all!

News

  • Oct 2024: I was invited to review for ICLR 2025 and AISTATS 2025
  • Sep 2024: Maia-2: A Unified Model for Human-AI Alignment in Chess was accepted by NeurIPS 2024 [preprint], try it out on Lichess (join A/B test) @ [Lichess Bot], see you in Vancouver!
  • Aug 2024: I was invited to review for TheWebConf (WWW) 2025
  • Jul 2024: I officially formed my PhD supervisory committee, which includes Prof. Ashton Anderson as my supervisor, along with Prof. Chris Maddision and Prof. Colin Raffel as committee members.
  • Jul 2024: I was invited to serve in the program committee of AAAI 2025
  • Jul 2024: I was invited to review for KDD 2025
  • May 2024: I was invited to review for NeurIPS 2024
  • May 2024: One paper was accepted by ACL 2024 Findings
  • Apr 2024: Two extended abstracts were accepted by IC2S2 2024, see you in Philly!
  • Mar 2024: One paper was accepted by ISMB 2024 and Bioinformatics
  • Jan 2024: I was invited to review for KDD 2024
  • Nov 2023: LQAC received an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award at ISWC 2023
  • Oct 2023: I was invited to review for TheWebConf (WWW) 2024
  • Sep 2023: I was invited to review for the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
  • Sep 2023: I received the ISWC 2023 Travel Award, see you in Athens!
  • Aug 2023: I was invited to serve in the program committee of AAAI 2024
  • Aug 2023: I was invited to review for the ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • Jun 2023: One paper was accepted by ISWC 2023
  • May 2023: One paper was accepted by ACL 2023 Findings
  • Apr 2023: Two papars were accepted by SIGIR 2023
  • Mar 2023: I was invited to review for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Nov 2022: One paper was accepted by Elsevier Information Processing and Management (IP&M)
  • Aug 2022: I was invited to review for Elsevier Information Processing and Management (IP&M)
  • Jun 2022: One paper was accepted by ECML-PKDD 2022
  • Apr 2022: One paper was accepted by IJCAI 2022
  • Oct 2021: One paper was acccepted by WSDM 2022
  • May 2020: One paper was accepted by KDD 2020

Education

Experience

  • Faculty Affiliated Researcher, Vector Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Nov 2022 - Present

  • Research Intern, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany, Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
  • Research Intern, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
  • Research Intern, Baidu Research, Beijing, China, Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
    • Worked on City Computing and User Modeling with Dr. Jingbo Zhou and Prof. Hui Xiong at Business Intelligence Lab
  • Visiting Student, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

Professional Service

  • Reviewer/PC Member:
    AISTATS 2025,
    ICLR 2025,
    NeurIPS 2024,
    KDD 2024/2025,
    WWW 2024/2025,
    AAAI 2024/2025,
    IJCAI 2024,
    IJCLR-NeSy 2022
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
    ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
    Elsevier Information Processing and Management (IP&M)
    Elsevier Information Fusion
    Elsevier Information Systems
  • Teaching:
    Introduction to Computer Programming, University of Toronto, 2022 Fall
    Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, University of Toronto, 2023 Winter