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Oct 2026Named to the World's Top 2% Scientists list (Stanford/Elsevier) for the third year.
Sep 2026Five papers accepted at NeurIPS 2026: Phase-wise tuning, MESCoder and RSU (multi-framework UI-to-code generation and repair), AnchorGen (diffusion language planning for chest X-ray reports), and Harbor (agentic evaluation infrastructure, Evaluations and Datasets Track).
Sep 2026Serving as Area Chair for the EACL 2026 Industry Track.
Aug 2026H-FedSN is accepted at NPJ Artificial Intelligence.
Aug 2026EGT-KG is accepted to EMNLP 2026 Industry Track.
May 2026Received the Google HE Faculty AI Fellowship.
May 2026DCM and MulFCoder, our multi-framework UI2Code papers, are accepted to ICML 2026.
May 2026Three papers accepted in the ACL 2026 cycle: LLM-Guided Tsetlin (Findings), FROST and Are LLMs Economically Viable (Industry Track).
Apr 2026Distribution-aware Re-representations is accepted to SIGIR 2026.
Apr 2026Trustworthy Agent Network is accepted to the KDD 2026 Blue Sky Track.
Jan 2026GRO-RAG is accepted to ICLR 2026.
Jan 2026Our culturally aware harmful meme detection paper is accepted to WWW 2026.

Awards & Honors

2026Google HE Faculty AI Fellowship
2025Best Paper Nomination, EMNLP Industry Track
2024, 2025, 2026World's Top 2% Scientists (Stanford / Elsevier)
2024Best Paper Candidate, ACM BuildSys
2023NSF Travel Award, ICPP
2022Flash Talk Award, UVA Link Lab
2016Excellent Graduation Thesis (5 of 242), Department of Physics, Jilin University
2015Outstanding Winner, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)
2013, 2014National Scholarship (Top 1%), Jilin University
2014Outstanding Intern Award, Manulife Financial Center

Paper Awards

EMNLP 2025Best Paper Nomination · Truth, Trust, and Trouble: Medical AI on the Edge
ACM MM 2025Oral Presentation, top 4% · Prototype-Guided Representation Projection
CHIL 2023Oral Presentation, 13.3% · SRDA: Mobile Sensing based Fluid Overload Detection
BuildSys 2024Best Paper Candidate · ScreenSense: Screen Activity Detection