Year (until) | Information |
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Present: | I am a Senior Manager (starting as Principal Applied Scientist first) at Amazon Web Services (AWS). |
Present: | I am an associate professor of computer science without term (tenured) at the University of Virginia (on leave since 2022). |
2021: | I was part of the Data and Technology Advancement (DATA) National Service Scholar Program: Data Scientists Advancing Biomedical Research in National Institute of Health, NIA. |
2020 Spring: | I took a Sabbatical in University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Prof. Bin Yu's group. |
2019 Aug: | I was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science , in University of Virginia. I have received the Young Investigator CAREER award from NSF (National Science Foundation, 2015-2020)! |
2013 Aug: | I was a senior researcher @ Machine Learning Department, NEC Labs America. |
2013 May: | I was a research staff member @
Machine Learning Department,
NEC Labs America. |
2008: | I completed my PhD in May of 2008 at the
School of Computer Science in
Carnegie Mellon University working with
Ziv Bar-Joseph and
Judith Klein-Seetharaman. |
2003: | I received my M.S. in May of 2003 from the School of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon University. |
2001: | I received my B.S. with first-class high honors (3 out of 156 graduates) and M.E. (in the accelerated program) in June of 2001 from Computer Science Department, Tsinghua university, Beijing. |
More: | I was a member of Tsinghua Univ. Chorus team and a member of Tsinghua Univ. Skating Team between 1999-2001. |
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--- Winston Churchill
“Life is the art of drawing without an
eraser.” --- John W. Gardner
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit." --- Aristotle
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." --- Michael Jordan