Service & Activities

Virtual Chat

I hold a 30-minute virtual chat each week for current Ph.D. students. If you are facing Ph.D.-related difficulties, especially advisor–trainee tensions, I am happy to talk them through with you and share what I learned from my own past experience. If this would be helpful, please reach out by email.

Reviewing & Program Committee

Conferences

• MICCAI 2026, Reviewer

Workshops

• ICLR, MLGenX (2024, 2025, 2026); Gen2 (2026); ES-Reasoning (2026)

• NeurIPS, AI4Science (2025); SPIGM (2025)

• ICML, AI4Science (2024, 2026); SPIGM (2026)

• CVPR, MMRAgI (2026)

Talks & Professional Visits

• Society of Biomolecular Imaging and Informatics (SBI2) 2024 & 2025, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, poster on LivecellAction and short talk on LivecellX (self-funded; attended in person).

• CytoData 2023, Allen Institute, poster session (self-funded, with a competitive travel award from the Allen Institute).

• Multi-Consortia Coordinating (MC2) Center for Cancer Biology, online presenter; one-hour talk on LivecellX.

• Cancer Biology Program Trainee Progress Report, 30-minute research presentation.

• ACL-IJCNLP 2017, Taipei, oral presentation of Learning to Explain Non-standard English.

Awards & Honors

• 2017, Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, nomination.

• 2015 & 2016, ACM ICPC Southern California Regional, Team Sylveon, 12th place.

• 2013, National Olympiad in Informatics (Shanghai), First Prize in all rounds.

• 2015–2017, UC Santa Barbara Dean’s Honors.

Involvement

• Member, ACM Chapter at UC Santa Barbara, 2015–2017.

• Contributor to open-source scientific software, including Dynamo (single-cell RNA dynamics).