Research Interests
His research interests lie in Data Science, FinTech, Personalizations, Recommender Systems, Human-Centric Computing, Technology-Enhanced Learning, and so forth. It could be related to the following topics:
- General Areas: Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Web & Learning Intelligence: Personalization, Recommender Systems, Learning Analytics, etc.
- HCI and Users: User Modeling, Human-Centric Computing, Behavior Analysis, etc.
- FinTech: AI in Finance, portfolio optimization, financial recommender systems, etc.
Honors, Grants & Awards
- 2022, PI, ACM SIGCHI Development Fund
- 2022, PI, Industry Grant by Morningstar, Inc.
- 2022, PI, Google Cloud Credit Award for Research
- 2021, Excellence in Research Award by College of Computing at Illinois Institute of Technology
- 2021, ACM RecSys Registration Waiver
- 2021, AWS Educate Credit
- 2021, PI, ACM SIGCHI Development Fund
- 2020, ACM RecSys Registration Waiver
- 2020, PI, Industry Grant #20-0195 (delayed due to Covid-19)
- 2020, PI, NSF grant (#2022227) to support students in ACM UMAP 2020 & 2021
- 2018, PI, NSF grant (#1830908) to support students in ACM UMAP 2018 & 2019
- 2017, Distinguished Student Supervisor Nominees, IIT, Chicago, USA
- 2017, Distinguished reviewer by ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
- 2016-2018, AWS Educate Credit
- 2015-2016, AWS Educate Student Credit
- 2016, Travel Award: UMAP, SAC
- 2015, Travel Award: ICDM, IUI, SAC, UMAP, DSS
- 2015, Best paper award at SOCRS, Chicago, USA
- 2015, Finalist at SRC@ACM SAC, Spain
- 2014, Travel Award: RecSys, SAC
- 2013, Travel Award: KDD, UMAP