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
- Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada, Sep 2022 - present
- Working on Computational Social Science with Prof. Ashton Anderson, Apr 2023 - Present
- Worked on Knowledge Graphs and Recommendations with Prof. Scott Sanner, Sep 2022 - Apr 2023
- M.S. in Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Jan 2021 - May 2022
- Worked on Knowledge Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning with Prof. Xiangliang Zhang and Prof. Robert Hoehndorf
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
Experience
Faculty Affiliated Researcher, Vector Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Nov 2022 - Present
- Research Intern, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany, Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
- Worked on Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning and Bioinformatics with Prof. Robert Hoehndorf and Prof. Maria-Esther Vidal
- Research Intern, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
- Worked on Transfer Learning and Recommender Systems with Dr. Yongchun Zhu and Prof. Fuzhen Zhuang
- 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