EDUCATION

Post-doc     May 2017 , Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

                     Supervisor: Jiawei Han

Ph.D.           May 2017, Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY

Thesis: Truth Discovery from Crowdsourced Data

Advisor: Jing Gao

M.S.             2012, Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

B.S.              2010, Information and Computational Science, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

 

MAJOR AWARDS

Participant of Rising Stars Workshop
2018.  Rising Stars is an intensive workshop for women graduate students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic careers. A group of 60+ candidates is selected from the submitted applications.

UB CSE Best Dissertation Award
2017. My PhD dissertation titled “Truth Discovery from Crowdsourced Data” won the dissertation award by CSE department, University at Buffalo.

Best CSE Graduate Research Award
2015. This is the first research award for the graduate students in CSE department, University at Buffalo.

UB Presidential fellowship
as one of the recipients in Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the academic year 2012 to 2015. UB Presidential fellowship is a highly competitive fellowship, honoring only one Ph.D applicant in the CSE Department each year.

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Conference Program Committee
CIKM (2017, 2018)

Conference Reviewer and External Reviewer
NIPS (2015, 2016), SIGKDD (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), ICDM (2015, 2016, 2017), CIKM (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), SDM (2015, 2017), SenSys (2015, 2016), VLDB (2016, 2017), AAAI (2016), ICDCS (2015), IJCAI (2015), ICML (2014), ICTAI (2016).

Journal Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD).
ACM Transactions on the Web.
Social Network Analysis and Mining
World Wide Web Journal
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Algorithmica.