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Apr 2026 Our paper on high-level planning guidance RL for LLM reasoning got accepted to ICML 2026 to be held at Seoul, South Korea.
Dec 2025 Accepted as a UCITE Learning Fellow at Case Western Reserve University.
Jul 2025 Gave 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 2025 Attended the New Faculty Symposium at ICSE 2025 in Ottawa, Canada.
Jan 2025 Featured 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 2024 Our paper on long-term fairness analysis of ML systems got accepted to ICSE 2025 to be held at Ottawa, Canada.
Aug 2024 Excited to share that I joined Case Western Reserve University as a tenure-track faculty.
Dec 2023 Presented our paper on Safe ML Systems at FSE-SE4SafeML at San Francisco, CA.
Nov 2023 Paper accepted in ICSE'24 research track on the risks and opportunities brought by LLM for technical debts.
Aug 2023 Our position paper got accepted in the FSE'23 Workshop on Dependability and Trustworthiness of Safety-Critical Systems with Machine Learned Components
May 2023 Presented two research papers in ICSE'23 at Melbourne
May 2023 Served as onsite judge in ACM Student Research Competition at ICSE 2023
May 2023 Joined the ICSE'23 SMeW - Student Mentoring Workshop as a Mentor
May 2023 Paper accepted in ESEC/FSE'23 research track.
Feb 2023 ICSE paper artifact accepted and got three badges.
Dec 2022 Two papers accepted at ICSE'22 research track.
Sep 2022 Joined the Program Committee of ICSE 2024 technical track.
Aug 2022 I’ve been invited to serve the Board of Distinguished Reviewers for the Journal TOSEM (ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology).
Jun 2022 Paper accepted in ESEC/FSE'22 research track.
May 2022 Presented ICSE'22 paper on Data Science Pipeline in-person at Pittsburgh, PA.
May 2022 Joined ISR at Carnegie Mellon University as a Postdoctoral Researcher
May 2022 Received Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University.
Apr 2022 Organized the Women in Data Science (WiDS) event at ISU and served as an ambassador of WiDS Global, Stanford University.
Apr 2022 Defended my Ph.D. thesis “Understanding and Reasoning Fairness in Machine Learning Pipelines”.
Apr 2022 I’ve been awarded ACM SIGSOFT CAPS grant to attend ICSE'22 in-person at Pittsburgh.
Mar 2022 Artifact accepted for my ICSE'22 paper on Data Science Pipelines.
Feb 2022 Gave an invited talk at the CREATE SE4AI group organized by Concordia University, Polytechnique Montreal, Queen’s University, and University of Alberta.
Dec 2021 Paper accepted at ICSE'22 research track.
Aug 2021 Present paper on Fair Preprocessing in ESEC/FSE'21.
Jul 2021 Awarded ACM SIGSOFT CAPS grant to attend ESEC/FSE'21.
Jun 2021 Artifact accepted for ESEC/FSE'21 paper on Fair Preprocessing.
Jun 2021 Joined the program committee of the artifact track of OOPSLA'21.
Jun 2021 Received publication award from ISU computer science department for publishing in the top-tier venues.
Jul 2020 Attending ICSE 2021 conference.
Apr 2021 Paper accepted in ESEC/FSE'21 research track.
May 2021 Passed the Ph.D. candidacy exam.
Jan 2021 Selected for Shadow PC for the MSR'21 technical track.
Nov 2020 Attending OOPSLA'21 conference.
Nov 2020 Present paper on ML Fairness in ESEC/FSE'20.
Jul 2020 Attending ICSE 2020 conference.
May 2020 Organizing Mid-West Big Data Summer School.