Experiences

Honors & Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, 2025

• ASME SHM Best Journal Paper Award, 2023

• ASME SHM Best Journal Paper Award, 2022

• ASME Ephrahim Garcia Best Paper Award Nomination, 2022

• Professor of the Month, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, 2022

• MIT CEE Rising Star, 2019

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2018

• Liang Ji-Dian Graduate Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018

• NeurIPS Adversarial Vision Challenge, Robust Defense Track, 1st Place, 2018

• NeurIPS Adversarial Vision Challenge, Targeted Attack Track, 1st Place, 2018

• NeurIPS Adversarial Vision Challenge, Untargeted Attack Track, 3rd Place, 2018

• Dowd Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2017

• Dean’s Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015

• Veolia Research Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2013

Teaching

• CIV 350 Numerical Analysis for Civil Engineering, Spring 2023

• CIV 551 Sensing and Machine Learning for Smart Cities, Spring 2021/2022/2023

• CIV 550 Introduction to Smart Infrastructure Systems, Fall 2021/2022

Academic Services

• Publicity Chair, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys) 2021

• Ph.D. Forum Chair, ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (ACM BuildSys) 2020

• Chair, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing workshop on Continual and Multimodal Learning for Internet of Things 2019, 2020.

Program Committee:

• ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (ACM BuildSys), 2022.

• ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2020.

• IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), 2020.

• ACM Ubicomp workshop on Combining Physical and Data-Driven Knowledge in Ubiquitous Computing, 2020.

• ACM BuildSys workshop on Device-Free Human Sensing, 2019.

Reviewer for:

• ACM Ubicomp; ACM SenSys; AAAI; IJCAI; IEEE BigComp; American Control Conference (ACC); IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML); Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP); Journal of Sound and Vibration; Structural Control and Health Monitoring

• Grant reviewer, NSF