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Mar 31, 2024 I joined the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024) as a Program Committee Member.
Mar 19, 2024 I serve as the PC Chair for the Big Data and AI for Healthcare workshop at The IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2024).
Jan 10, 2024 I serve as the Student Travel Award Co-Chair for The IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2024).
Oct 28, 2023 Our paper CASTLE: A Cascaded Spatio-Temporal Approach for Long-lead Streamflow Forecasting was accepted for publication in The IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023).
Sep 4, 2023 I joined the Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2024) as a Program Committee Member.
Jul 13, 2023 I joined the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023) as a Program Committee Member.
Jun 12, 2023 I will join the School of Computing at Grand Valley State University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023.
Sep 2, 2022 Our paper Widening the Time Horizon: Predicting the Long-Term Behavior of Chaotic Systems was accepted for publication in The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
Aug 29, 2022 I joined Constant Contact as an Senior Machine Learning Engineer.
Aug 16, 2022 Congratulations to my student Everest Yang on the acceptance of his paper Predicting Flood Streamflow with Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average Models for publication in the Journal of Student Research (JSRHS)! Well done, Everest!
Dec 7, 2021 I will serve as a Program Committee Member for the 28th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2022).
Nov 22, 2021 I completed my Ph.D. thesis defense — and am feeling the joy! However, no success can be an individual accomplishment. Without the full support and encouragement of friends, family, and colleagues, it would be impossible to complete this journey.
Oct 5, 2021 I am serving as a Program Committee Member for the 2022 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’22).
Aug 11, 2021 I am a Program Committee Member of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22).
Mar 10, 2021 Congratulations to my student Everest Yang on receiving an offer and embarking on her college journey at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Computer Science!
Oct 10, 2020 Our paper Mitigating Class-Boundary Label Uncertainty to Reduce Both Model Bias and Variance was accepted for publication in the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
Oct 1, 2020 Our project III: Small: Collaborative Research: Study of Neural Architectural Components in Physics-Informed Deep Neural Networks for Extreme Flood Prediction, where I am the Co-Principal investigator, win an NSF award.
Sep 4, 2020 I am a Program Committee Member of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21).
Jun 3, 2019 With the support of the NSF fellowship, I joined Radial Analytics as an applied machine learning researcher.
May 20, 2019 I joined the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019) as a Program Committee Member.
Oct 23, 2018 I attended the Microsoft AI for Earth Hackathon and Education summit held in Redmond, WA from October 23 – 26, 2018.
Aug 30, 2018 Our paper Galaxy: Towards Scalable and Interpretable Explanation on High-dimensional and Spatio-Temporal Correlated Climate Data was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge.
Jun 8, 2018 Thank you Oracle for the Doctoral Research Fellowship in support of my work in long-term precipitation forecasting.
Jan 25, 2018 Thanks to the AI for Earth Grant for supporting our work on long-lead flood forecasting.
May 21, 2017 Our paper Crime hot spot forecasting: A recurrent model with spatial and temporal information was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge.
Sep 10, 2016 Our paper Long-lead prediction of extreme precipitation cluster via a spatiotemporal convolutional neural network was accepted for publication in the 6th International Workshop on Climate Informatics (CI 2016).
Apr 14, 2016 I served as an Assistant of Publicity Chair for the 6th International Workshop on Climate Informatics (CI 2016)
Feb 15, 2016 Our paper An evaluation of big data analytics in feature selection for long-lead extreme floods forecasting was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge.