Experience

  1. Postdoctoral Researcher

    University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
    Working in the Department of Biomedical Informatics with Dr. Yanjun Gao. Research focus: large biomedical knowledge graphs, clinical NLP, and LLM reasoning.

  2. Graduate Research Assistant

    Utah State University
    Conducted research on anomaly detection, interpretable machine learning, and robustness against backdoor attacks. Published multiple papers in ECML PKDD, PAKDD, IJCNN, IEEE Big Data, etc.

  3. Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Utah State University
    Assisted in teaching & grading for: CS 5665 - Introduction to Data Science, CS 5080 / CS 6665 - Data Mining

Education

  1. Ph.D. Computer Science

    Utah State University
    Dissertation on interpretable and robust anomaly detection, with emphasis on model transparency and security against backdoor attacks. Supervised by Dr. Shuhan Yuan.

  2. M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering

    State University of New York at Binghamton
    Specialized in anomaly detection and data mining.

  3. B.E. Mechanical Engineering

    China University of Petroleum
    Undergraduate research in engineering and applied computing.
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Programming & Tools

Python, SQL, C/C++, Docker, Git, Linux, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas

Cloud & Databases

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, SageMaker), GCP, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite

Machine Learning & System Design

Data preprocessing, feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, distributed training (multi-GPU), explainable AI, model deployment (Flask, FastAPI, Docker), model optimization

Hobbies
Hiking & Exploring Nature
Building Projects & Coding Tools
Board Games & Strategy Games
Awards
IEEE Big Data 2024 Volunteer Lead
IEEE Big Data ∙ December 2024
Served as Volunteer Lead for IEEE Big Data 2024, supporting conference organization and logistics.
Doctoral Forum Travel Award ($1,000)
SIAM SDM 2024 ∙ April 2024
Received $1,000 travel award to attend and present at the SDM 2024 Doctoral Forum.
Graduate Student Travel Award
Utah State University ∙ May 2023
Awarded to support travel for academic conference participation.
Graduate Student Travel Award
Utah State University ∙ May 2022
Awarded to support travel for academic conference participation.
Languages
90%
English
100%
Chinese (Mandarin)