Professional Activity

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
• Program Co-Chair, Brain-Machine Interface Workshop, IEEE SMC 2024–2025.
• Publicity and Social Media Co-Chair, PerCom 2023.
• Jury Member, IEEE Brain Best Paper Award 2023.
• Guest Editor: Algorithms; Frontiers in Signal Processing; Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (Topic: “AI-Powered Smart Healthcare in Smart Cities”).

NeurIPS; ICLR; ICML; KDD; AAAI; SDM; ACM MM; CIKM; ACM BCB; RECOMB; WWW; IJCAI; AI4Science; AISTATS; SMC; ISMB; ICONIP; MobiSP.

Nature Communications; Scientific Reports; IEEE TPAMI; IEEE TKDE; IEEE TCAS-II; IEEE TII; IEEE JBHI; IEEE TCS; ACM TOSN; ACM TOIS; Knowledge-Based Systems.

• AInet Fellow (AI in Medicine) 2021, DAAD.
• Engineering PhD Summit, EPFL 2019 (11 recipients worldwide).
• Student Travel Grant, ACM SIGKDD 2019.
• Google PhD Fellowship 2018 (one of four recipients in Australia), on Human-Computer Interaction.
• University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA), University of New South Wales, 2016–2020.
• Major Award, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2014–2016.

• Director, Charlotte Machine Learning Lab (CharMLab): 6 faculty, 18 PhD candidates, 15 UG/MS students.
• Chair, PhD Review Committee, Department of Computer Science, UNC Charlotte, 2023–2024.
• PhD Qualifying Exam & Proposal & Dissertation Defense Committee for 11 PhD students.