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Jul 2026My student Zhihao Dou presented our PTA-GRPO paper on LLM reasoning and planning at ICML 2026 in Seoul, South Korea.
Jul 2026Successfully organized the LLMTrust workshop on trustworthy LLMs for software engineering at FSE 2026, with great participation and discussion.
Jun 2026Our workshop proposal TAS 2026: Trustworthy Agentic Systems got accepted to the AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series, to be held November 5–7, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.
Jun 2026Our paper “ReShift” on backdoor attacks on vision–language models got accepted to ECCV 2026.
Jun 2026Our paper “What Breaks When LLMs Code?” on operational safety failures of agentic code assistants got accepted to ASE 2026 to be held in Munich, Germany. This year the conference received 1,304 submissions and only 115 papers were directly accepted — an acceptance rate of less than 9%.
Apr 2026Our paper on high-level planning guidance RL for LLM reasoning got accepted to ICML 2026 to be held at Seoul, South Korea.
Dec 2025Accepted as a UCITE Learning Fellow at Case Western Reserve University.
Sep 2025Awarded a CWRU CTSC pilot grant on fairness assessment and improvement of AI-enabled systems for dating-violence prevention, in collaboration with University Hospitals.
Jul 2025Gave an invited talk “Engineering Responsible AI: From Fairness to Long-term Impact” at the Robotics and Autonomous Systems (AUTOBOT) Program, College of Aeronautics and Engineering, Kent State University.
May 2025Attended the New Faculty Symposium at ICSE 2025 in Ottawa, Canada.
Jan 2025Featured on the New Books Network podcast — Small Research Goes Big: When Less Represented Topics Find Resonance across an Entire Field — discussing the story behind “The Art and Practice of Data Science Pipelines” on the world’s largest academic audio network.
Nov 2024Our paper on long-term fairness analysis of ML systems got accepted to ICSE 2025 to be held at Ottawa, Canada.
Aug 2024Excited to share that I joined Case Western Reserve University as a tenure-track faculty.
Dec 2023Presented our paper on Safe ML Systems at FSE-SE4SafeML at San Francisco, CA.
Nov 2023Paper accepted in ICSE'24 research track on the risks and opportunities brought by LLM for technical debts.
Aug 2023Our position paper got accepted in the FSE'23 Workshop on Dependability and Trustworthiness of Safety-Critical Systems with Machine Learned Components
May 2023Presented two research papers in ICSE'23 at Melbourne
May 2023Served as onsite judge in ACM Student Research Competition at ICSE 2023
May 2023Joined the ICSE'23 SMeW - Student Mentoring Workshop as a Mentor
May 2023Paper accepted in ESEC/FSE'23 research track.
Feb 2023ICSE paper artifact accepted and got three badges.
Dec 2022Two papers accepted at ICSE'22 research track.
Sep 2022Joined the Program Committee of ICSE 2024 technical track.
Aug 2022I’ve been invited to serve the Board of Distinguished Reviewers for the Journal TOSEM (ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology).
Jun 2022Paper accepted in ESEC/FSE'22 research track.
May 2022Presented ICSE'22 paper on Data Science Pipeline in-person at Pittsburgh, PA.
May 2022Joined ISR at Carnegie Mellon University as a Postdoctoral Researcher
May 2022Received Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University.
Apr 2022Organized the Women in Data Science (WiDS) event at ISU and served as an ambassador of WiDS Global, Stanford University.
Apr 2022Defended my Ph.D. thesis “Understanding and Reasoning Fairness in Machine Learning Pipelines”.
Apr 2022I’ve been awarded ACM SIGSOFT CAPS grant to attend ICSE'22 in-person at Pittsburgh.
Mar 2022Artifact accepted for my ICSE'22 paper on Data Science Pipelines.
Feb 2022Gave an invited talk at the CREATE SE4AI group organized by Concordia University, Polytechnique Montreal, Queen’s University, and University of Alberta.
Dec 2021Paper accepted at ICSE'22 research track.
Aug 2021Present paper on Fair Preprocessing in ESEC/FSE'21.
Jul 2021Awarded ACM SIGSOFT CAPS grant to attend ESEC/FSE'21.
Jun 2021Artifact accepted for ESEC/FSE'21 paper on Fair Preprocessing.
Jun 2021Joined the program committee of the artifact track of OOPSLA'21.
Jun 2021Received publication award from ISU computer science department for publishing in the top-tier venues.
Jul 2020Attending ICSE 2021 conference.
Apr 2021Paper accepted in ESEC/FSE'21 research track.
May 2021Passed the Ph.D. candidacy exam.
Jan 2021Selected for Shadow PC for the MSR'21 technical track.
Nov 2020Attending OOPSLA'21 conference.
Nov 2020Present paper on ML Fairness in ESEC/FSE'20.
Jul 2020Attending ICSE 2020 conference.
May 2020Organizing Mid-West Big Data Summer School.