For Research Collaborations

Thank you for your interest in working with me! I am open to collaborations on the following broad topics:

• Trustworthy Machine Learning
• Graph Machine Learning
• Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems
• Natural Language Processing

Please fill out this form to let me know your interests.

For Prospective Ph.D. Students

I am actively recruiting Ph.D. students. Below are a few tips regarding the Ph.D. program application.

• Please apply to the Ph.D. program in the School of Inforamtion Sciences at UIUC. The hard deadline is Dec. 1. For early consideration of a Graduate College fellowship, please submit your application materials by Nov. 1.
• Please mention me as a potential advisor in your application.
• Feel free to drop me an email about your application. I may not be able to reply individually but I will read it and make sure that I do not miss your application.

If you want to send me an email, please

• name your email title as “[Prospective Student] Starting Year: Your Name”;
• include your CV and undergrad transcript in the attachment;
• briefly describe your experience, and which of the research topics I work on interests you.