About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University, where I serve as the founder and director of RAI (Responsible AI) Lab. Prior to that, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Jundong Li.

[Recruiting PhDs & Interns]: I am actively seeking ambitious students for Ph.D. or research intern roles. Please email me with your CV, transcripts, and brief descriptions of your preferred research topics. Kindly mark the subject with [PhD Application] or [Research Intern Application]. Magic Word: Please add appoggiatura in the email subject to ensure attention and to show that you have read this carefully.

Research Summary: My research interest mainly lies in achieving responsible AI that directly contributes to critical AI infrastructures and enhances collaborative innovations for the industry. I have abundant research works under related topics with a particular focus on relational data, including 40+ published research papers (14 first-author ones) in the following areas [see full list]:

• AI Security: Attack and Defense
• AI Integrity: Value Alignment; Knowledge Editing
• AI Explainability: Model Interpretability; Prediction Justification
• AI/ML+X (Applications): Healthcare; Criminal Justice; Finance

News

• Jan. 2025: FYAP grant awarded. I appreciate the generous support from FSU.
• Jan. 2025: Two papers accepted by ICLR.
• Dec. 2024: We released Political-LLM, a comprehensive guidebook outlining the recent advances in the interdisciplinary area of political science and LLMs. Check our paper and online resources!
• Dec. 2024: Two papers accepted by AAAI.
• Nov. 2024: Received The Collaborative Grant between Computer Science and Psychology. I appreciate the generous support from the Department of Computer Science and Department of Psychology at FSU.
• Oct. 2024: One paper accepted by TMLR.
• Oct. 2024: One paper accepted by BigData.
• Oct. 2024: Two papers accepted by NeurIPS.
• Sept. 2024: Received The College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Faculty Award. I appreciate the generous support from the Dean’s office.
• Sept. 2024: One paper accepted by EMNLP.
• Aug. 2024: We are preparing for seminar series Student Seminars @FSU. Contact us to present!
• Aug. 2024: New position started in the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University.
• Jun. 2024: Dissertation defense passed.
• May 2024: Two papers accepted by SIGKDD.
• May 2024: One paper accepted by ACL.
• May 2024: One paper accepted by ICML.
• Mar. 2024: One paper accepted by TheWebConf.
• Jan. 2024: One paper accepted by PAKDD.
• Jan. 2024: One paper accepted by ICLR.

Invited Talks (Selected)

• 03/2025, UIIC Summit, DistribuTech
• 02/2025, Harvard University, Model Extraction Attacks
• 10/2024, INFORMS, Responsible Graph Machine Learning
• 10/2024, Case Western University, Algorithmic Fairness

Services

• Invited Program Committee Member: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL, AAAI, KDD, CIKM, ECMLPKDD, SDM, etc.
• Invited Reviewer & External Reviewer: SIGKDD, SIGIR, AAAI, ICML, WWW, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, TKDE, TKDD, CIKM, WSDM, ECML-PKDD, PAKDD, BigData, etc.
• Volunteer: SIGKDD 2021, IJCAI 2021, SIGKDD 2020, etc.