Welcome!
Hello everyone! I’m a 3rd year PhD student at University of Toronto working with Prof. Ashton Anderson. My research interests lie in machine learning and data mining, in particular human behavior modeling, knowledge representation learning, 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
- Dec 2024: I passed the PhD Qualifying Exam! A huge thank you to my supervisory committee members - Ashton, Chris, and Colin!
- 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 Human Behavior Modeling with Prof. Ashton Anderson
- 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