Short Bio

I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida, where I direct the Real-Time Intelligent Systems Lab. I am also a joint faculty with the Department of Computer Science, and I can advise CpE, CS, or EE Ph. D. student. I have about 15 years of research experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and about 8 years of research experience in real-time and embedded systems. I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016. (advisor: Prof. Sanjoy K. Baruah)
• M. Phil., Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. (advisor: Prof. Jun Wang)
• B. E., Computer Science and Technology (with Honor), Tsinghua University, 2009.
• High School Diploma, National Talented Class in Science Olympiad, Ministry of Education, High School Attached to Tsinghua University, 2005. (~80 selected from >22,500,000 nationwide, all with direct admission to Tsinghua Univ. or Peking Univ., with the exemption from National College Entrance Examination)

Research Interests

• Real-Time Systems
• Neural Networks and Machine Learning
• Applications to Intelligent Systems
• A 12-minute seminar talk about my recent and ongoing research efforts

Honors and Awards

• Best Paper Award, EMSOFT 2020.
• Best Student Paper Award, RTSS 2019.
• Outstanding Paper Award, RTSS 2019.
• Outstanding (Faculty) Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2014-2015.

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Service

• I review about 50 papers a year, as a reviewer for journals (such as TPDS, TNNLS, TECS, TII, TCAD, TCPS, TIME, TNSE, TETCI, etc.) and a PC member in conferences (including RTSS, RTAS, EMSOFT, AAAI, DAC, etc.). Please consider submission and/or attending.