About
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the Auburn University. Prior to that, I received my Ph.D. degree in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My current research interests lie in several reasearch areas, including Trustworthy Machine Learning, Parallel, Distributed, and Federated Learning, Natural Language Processing, Graph Machine Learning. Our lab has built close collaborative relationships with Microsoft, Amazon, and Sony Research. Our research contributions have been published in top venues of machine learning (ICML, NeurIPS), artificial intelligence (AAAI, IJCAI, TIST), natural language processing (ACL, EMNLP), data mining (KDD, ICDM, SDM, TKDD, DMKD, KAIS), high performance computing (HPDC, SC, TPDS), database systems (VLDB, ICDE, CIKM, TKDE, TODS, VLDBJ), Web (WWW, TWEB), and networking (JSAC, TOIT).
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
An Efficient Algorithm for Mining both Closed and Maximal Frequent Free Subtrees Using Canonical Forms
Year: 2005
Citations: 6
Venue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and
Latest Recorded Paper
Explainability-guided defense: Attribution-aware model refinement against adversarial data attacks
Year: 2026
Citations: 1
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.00968
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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