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, knowledge representation learning and reasoning, neural-symbolic reasoning, and recommendation 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

• Nov 2023: LQAC received an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award at ISWC 2023
• Oct 2023: I was invited to review for ACM TheWebConf 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-Findings 2023
• 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 Information Processing and Management (IP&M)
• Aug 2022: I was invited to review for 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, May 2023 - Present
  • Worked on Knowlegde 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

Work experience

• 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:
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  Information Processing and Management (IP&M)
  AAAI 2024, TheWebConf 2024, IJCLR-NeSy 2022
• Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Computer Programming, University of Toronto, 2022
• Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, University of Toronto, 2022