| 12/5: | Congrats to Tan and Yong Qin to present at Fall 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium. |
| 12/1: | Our review paper has been publishsed at International Journal of Digital Earth. |
| 11/20: | Serve as a Publicity Co-Chair for International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AIiH). |
| 8/1: | Serve as a session chair at KDD'23. |
| 7/19: | Our paper has been accepted for "rapid-fire" oral presentation at ACM-BCB'23 (an average acceptance rate of 29% last 5 years). |
| 7/11: | Congrats to Tan for his poster accepted by KDD'23 SoCal Data Science Day. |
| 7/5: | Congrats to Jorge, Tan, and Yong Qin for receiving undergraduate research fellowship (CSUN-OUR, SURF). |
| 6/16: | Awarded (co-PI) FOA, UNLV ($34,000) |
| 5/20: | Welcome Jorge, Yong Qin, Grace, Tan, Kim, Kelvin to be part of SAIL. |
| 4/11: | Google exploreCSR workshop is open for applications. |
| 1/17: | Welcome Lina, Sabrina, Yash, Kevin, Yul, Jeremiah as part of SAIL! |
| 1/9: | Awarded (Sole) PI: UNLV TTDGRA Grant (3-year RAship). |
| 1/8: | Our paper has been accepted by the journal Applied Sciences. |
| 12/6: | Our paper has been accepted by ICAART 2023. Congratulations, Taif. |
| 10/25: | Serve in one NSF panel. |
| 10/14: | Awarded (Sole) PI: my nominee is a recipient of UNLV Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship. |
| 10/11: | Three posters are accepted to ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing Poster/Demo Sessions! Congratulations to Cicelia, Wenkai, Theo, Louis!! |
| 10/3: | Awarded (Sole) PI of Google exploreCSR award. |
| 9/29: | Our ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition'22 has been accepted as a finalist. |
| 9/27: | Our AAAI-23 AISI submission has advanced to Phase 2 review process. |
| only about 55% of papers advanced to Phase 2, out of over 300 submissions. | |
| 9/26: | Affiliate Faculty Member, Nevada Center for Astrophysics. |
| 8/29: | Welcome Wenkai, Cicelia, Louis, Alla, Vincent, Sumin, Tommy, and Theodore to be part of SAIL! |
| 8/18: | NSF MRI awarded (serve as Co-PI). |
| 6/29: | awardee of Faculty Opportunity Award in the Research Award category, UNLV. |
| 6/9: | awardee of Troesh Center Research Grants, Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Lee Business School, UNLV. |
| 6/1: | selected to participate in the QEM NASA Proposal Development workshop with travel support. |
| 5/16: | welcome Theo, Charles, Alexandre, Louis as visiting students! Bonjour. |
| 4/26: | selected to submit DOE pre-applications. |
| 4/11: | recipient of UFTC Award. |
| 4/5: | serve as a Session Chair in SDM 2022. |
| 4/1: | serve as Program Committee member for PKDD 2022 |
| 1/31: | Letter of Intent to NASA Nevada is selected! |
| 1/4: | People Choice Award, 2022 IEEE Rising Stars Poster Competition. |
| 12/19: | Our paper has been accepted by SDM 2022 (acceptance rate is 27.8%). |
| 12/15: | average evaluation scores for one online course in Fall is 4.78 out of 5. |
| 11/23: | Our submission has been accepted for 2022 IEEE Rising Stars Poster Competition (preso link). |
| 10/29: | Our submission has been selected for AAAI-22 Student Abstract and Poster Program. |
| Congratulations, Guangyu! | |
| 9/28: | serve as a program committee for SDM'22. |
| 9/19: | Invited to speak at CIVILMEET2022. |
| 7/2: | Awardee of a vGHC Faculty Scholarship. |
| 6/7: | Serve in one NSF panel. |
| 5/26: | average evaluation scores for the two online courses in Spring are 4.83 and 4.49 out of 5. |
| 4/19: |  SDM 2021 Best Applied Data Science Paper Award.
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| (SDM is one of the top 4 data mining conferences.) | |
| 4/12: | Awardee SIAM Early Career Travel Award for SDM2021 (funded by NSF) and Tutorial Free Registration. |
| 4/1: | Google exploreCSR workshop + summer research internships are open for applications. |
| 1/29: | Invited to talk at Dr. Upal Roy's lab in the Department of Health & Biomedical Sciences, UTRGV. |
| 1/26: | Congratulations to Sonny (intern in the lab) for next step in Simons Foundation as data analyst intern! |
| (back in 2011, Simons Foundation was one of my dream companies.) | |
| 1/1: | the average evaluation scores for the two courses I taught online in Fall are 4.51 and 4.48 out of 5. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12/21: | Our full paper has been selected by SIAM SDM'21. |
| (acceptance rate of 21.25% with 400 submissions and 85 of them were accepted.) | |
| 12/15: | Our tutorial has been selected by SIAM SDM'21(SDM is a top data mining conference.) |
| 12/02: | Selected for the NeurIPS'20 registration fee reimbursement via the 3rd Robot Learning Workshop (NeurIPS'20 is a top conference in machine learning.) |
| 11/19: | Invited to talk at the department of surgery, UTRGV. |
| 11/17: | Letter of Intent in Pilot Study Program for the Rio Grande Valley Alzheimer’s Disease was selected. |
| (invited to the next step: submit a full proposal.) | |
| 11/02: | Serve as program committee for International Conference on Intelligent Environments -- IE21. |
| 10/21: | Awardee of Google exploreCSR grant. |
| 10/21: | Serve as ACM Student Research Competition program committee for SIGCSE 2021. |
| 10/14: | Our AAAI’21 paper was promoted to the phase II review. |
| ( AAAI is a top AI conference, approximately 62% were promoted to Phase II and 38% were rejected.) | |
| 10/12: | Received Google Cloud COVID-19 research credits. |
| 09/18: | Invited to talk at the Computer Science Seminar, the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus. |
| 09/16: | Abstract is accepted at Infrastructure and Construction Webinar - Urban Planning Session, 2020 |
| 09/10: | Invited to talk at Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, UTRGV. |
| 09/08: | Our paper has been accepted in Sensors. |
| 08/20: | Invited to talk at Neuroscience Seminar, UTRGV. |
| 08/20: | Invited to talk at Human–Computer Interaction Seminar, UTRGV. |
| 08/20: | Invited to talk at Open Problem in Computer Science Seminar, UTRGV. |
| 08/19: | I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis. |
| 08/17: | I received the registration fee waived to attend ACM RecSys'20. |
| 08/01: | I received a student registration award to attend KDD 2020 (and partial KDD2021 registation credit). |
| 07/30: | I serve as a Program Committee for Web Mining and Content Analysis track at WWW'21. |
| 06/10: | I serve as a Program Committee for the International Workshop on Big Data Reduction (IWBDR'20), a worshop of IEEE BigData20. |
| 06/05: | I got the professional development grants (funded by graduate & professional student association). |
| 04/03: | I will join the U of Texas -- Rio Grande Valley as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall 2020. |
2019
11/18/2019: Our paper has been accepted in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments.
05/29/2019: My application to the ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science has been accepted (funded by NSF),SF, CA (June 15th, 2019).
05/15/2019: My poster proposal has been accepted for the General Poster Session at Grace Hopper Celebration 2019, Orlando, FL (Oct 1-4, 2019).
04/18/2019: I serve as a technical program committee of SmartStudents'19, a workshop of SMARTCOMP'19.
03/28/2019: I got the travel grant to attend SDM (funded by Intel and NSF).
03/18/2019: My application to the SDM Doctoral Forum has been accepted, Alberta, Canada (May 2nd - 4th).
03/08/2019: I received the 2nd place in the 3 minutes thesis competition for Ph.D. candidates, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, WSU.
03/04/2019: I will represent the computer science department to compete Three Minutes Thesis in Violand College of Engineering and Architecture.
02/01/2019: I got the scholarship to attend Strata Data Conference in San Francisco, CA (March 25th- 28th).
01/24/2019: I will be a speaker at Analytics and Data Summit 2019 in Redwood, CA (March 12th- 14th).
01/18/2019: I will teach Cpts 121 (Program Desgin and Development C/C++) in Summer 2019 Session I (May 6th - June 14th).
01/07/2019: I accepted the summer 2019 intern offer from Dell, Seattle, WA (June 17th - August 16th).
2017-2018
12/19/2018: I will give a guest lecture about SVM for the class Introduction to Machine Learning ( March 19th).
09/28/2018: I passed the Ph.D. preliminary exam.
08/05/2018: Our paper is accpted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI)
04/05/2018: I got the travel grant to attend Google I/O 2018, May 8th - 10th, Mountain View, CA.
04/02/2018: I am selected to participate in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine 2018 Hackathon, April 13th-15th, WA.
02/21/2018: I passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam.
02/09/2018: Our poster abstract has been accepted for presentation at 2018 GPSA Research Exposition, March 30th.
10/07/2017: I accepted summer 2018 intern offer from Honeywell, Atlanta, GA.