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Last updated on Oct 21, 2022

[2022.08] I joined Microsoft as a researcher at Knowledge and Language Team of Azure Cognitive Services Research Group.
[2022.08] I passed my doctoral defense! 🎓
[2022.07] ICML registration award for top 10% reviewer (virtually attending ICML2022)!
[2022.06] One paper accepted at ECML-PKDD 2022.
[2022.02] Continuing serving program committee at NeruIPS 2022, ECML-PKDD 2022, IJCAI/IJCAI AI for Good Track.
[2022.01] One paper accepted at WWW 2022.
[2022.01] Serving as Reviewer of ACL Rolling Review (ARR 2022).

[2021.12] Gave an invited tech talk at Coupang (Search and recommendation team), hosted by Dong Wang and Winter Wang.
[2021.11] Attending CIKM 2021 (thanks to SIGWEB and CIKM) and EMNLP 2021 online. Look forward to learning more KG research and discussion!
[2021.10] Serving PC member of WWW, AAAI and ICLR 2022.
[2021.10] Gave a seminar talk at UCLA ScAi ML Seminar about AlphaFold roadmap from DeepMind.
[2021.08] Gave a seminar talk at MSAI Graph Learning Session named “Knowledge Graph with Ontology and Applications.”
[2021.07] Invited as PC board member of IJCAI-ECAI (2022-2024).
[2021.07] Offered ICML 2021 Participation Grant.
[2021.06] Start my summer (remote) internship as a research intern at Microsoft Research, collaborating with scientists and researchers at MSAI.
[2021.05] One paper accepted at KDD 2021 (Applied Data Science Track).
[2021.05] PC member of CIKM 2021 and NeurIPS 2021.
[2021.05] Volunteer at ICLR 2021. [Volunteer Certificate]
[2021.04] One paper accepted at ISMB/ECCB 2021.
[2021.03] Continuing serving as PC member of ECML-PKDD 2021.
[2021.02] PC member of Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for the Web SSL@WWW2021.
[2021.01] PC member of IJCAI 2021. [Reviewer Certificate]

[2020.12] PC member of ICML 2021.
[2020.11] PC member of SDM 2021.
[2020.10] Attending CIKM 2020 online.
[2020.10] PC member of IJCAI 2021.
[2020.09] Our Bio-JOIE paper won Best Student Paper Award on ACM-BCB 2020!
[2020.09] SIGIR student travel grant received for CIKM 2020, supported by SIGIR Travel Grants program. Thanks!
[2020.09] PC member of AAAI 2021 and ICLR 2021.
[2020.08] Received KDD’2020 Student Registration Award from NSF and SIGKDD. Thanks!
[2020.07] One applied research track paper accepted at CIKM 2020.
[2020.07] One regular paper accepted at ACM BCB 2020.
[2020.07] Attending ACL’20, ICML’20, ISMB’20 online.
[2020.06] Start my summer (remote) internship as a research intern at IBM Research AI (Big Data Integration/Scalable Knowledge Intelligence).
[2020.05] Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST).
[2020.04] PC member of KDD 2020 (Research Track).
[2020.04] PC member of the AACL-IJCNLP 2020.
[2020.04] PC member of the 3rd CDEC Workshop, IEEE BigData 2020.
[2020.03] PC member of ECML-PKDD 2020 (Applied Data Science Track/Demo Track).
[2020.02] Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

[2019.12] Passed oral qualification exam (OQE) and officially advanced to candidacy.
[2019.12] Reviewer of TKDD.
[2019.11] External reviewer of ICDE 2020.
[2019.11] PC member of ICML 2020 (thanks for the Reviewer Certificate).
[2019.08] External reviewer of WSDM 2020.
[2019.06] PC member of SoCal NLP Symposium 2019.
[2019.06] Start my summer internship as an applied scientist intern with Product Graph/Substitute Team at Amazon Seattle (with Tong Zhao, Xin Luna Dong and Christos Faloutsos)
[2019.06] Received KDD 2019 Travel Award.
[2019.06] External reviewer of EMNLP 2019, ICDM 2019, ECML PKDD 2019.
[2019.06] PC member of the 2nd CDEC Workshop, IEEE ICDM 2019.
[2019.06] Attending ICML’19 on June 11-13. See you at Long Beach!
[2019.04] One research track paper accepted at KDD 2019. See you in Anchorage, Alaska!

[2018.11] One journal paper accepted at Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (TRB).
[2018.07] PC member of the 1st CDEC Workshop, IEEE ICDM 2018
[2018.06] Start my summer research internship at NEC Labs America (Princeton) with my mentor Lu-An Tang.