Experiences

Honors & Awards

  • 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

  • Fenves Travel Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2016/Spring 2017

  • Dean’s Fellowship, College of Engineering, 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