Assistant Professor at USC

Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering

I have been a faculty at USC since the August of 2008. Prior to joining USC, I was a postdoctoral researcher at U. of California (Berkeley) with Prof. Michael I. Jordan and Prof. Stuart Russell. I also spend a year at Yahoo! Research as a research scientist. I have a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in biomedical engineering from Southeast University (Nanjing, China). , and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Prof. Lawrence K. Saul (now at UC San Diego)

My research focuses on the theory and application of machine learning. I have worked on a number of research projects including speech and object recognition, manifold learning, optimization algorithms for large margin classifiers and etc. Recently, I have been interested in some problems in computational biology as well as applying machine learning techniques to problems in distributed computer systems and networks.