🤝 Services
My work includes institutional leadership at USC. Professional service follows
research on Auditable AI Systems, including detection in data, verification of output,
auditing of action, and modeling of risk. It also covers related machine learning areas where reliable
deployment and high-stakes use matter.
Student Qual/Thesis Committee Request (update as of 1/13/2026):
I have already served on more than 10 student committees for Spring 2026.
I am unable to take on any new student committees.
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Institutional Leadership
- Founder & Maintainer, 博士栈 CSPhD.org: a non-profit community for CS/AI/EE/Stats PhDs (since 2022, several thousand members, a searchable board of 500+ PhD/RA/postdoc openings), supporting students from before enrollment to the faculty job market.
Conference/Workshop Organizing Roles
- Co-organizer, Geometric and Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models (GSR-VLM) Workshop at AAAI 2027
- Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, AAAI 2027
- Future Faculty Highlights Co-Chair, IEEE BigData 2026
- Publicity Co-Chair, WSDM 2027
- Workflow Co-Chair, KDD 2023
- Co-organizer, SURGeLLM: Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in LLMs era Workshop at ACL 2026
- Co-organizer, AgentSkills '26: The First Workshop on Agent Skills at CAIS Conference 2026
- Co-organizer, AI for Financial Fraud Detection & Prevention Workshop at the 6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance
Funding Proposal Review Roles
Journal Editorial Roles
Journal Review Roles
- Core ML/AI Journals:
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR),
Machine Learning,
TPAMI,
TKDE,
Neurocomputing,
Artificial Intelligence Review (AIRE)
- Data/Mining and Information Systems:
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI),
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS),
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS),
INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC),
Big Data
- Systems and Interdisciplinary Venues:
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J),
IEEE Intelligent Systems,
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC),
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB),
IEEE Network Magazine
Conference/Workshop AC and Reviewer Roles
- NeurIPS 2021, NeurIPS 2022, NeurIPS 2023, NeurIPS 2025 (AC), NeurIPS 2026 (AC)
- ICLR 2025 (AC), ICLR 2026 (AC)
- ICML 2024, 2025 (AC), 2026 (AC)
- AISTATS 2024, 2025 (AC)
- AAAI 2021, AAAI 2022, AAAI 2023,
AAAI 2021 Demonstrations, AAAI 2022 Demonstrations,
AAAI 2025 (SPC), AAAI 2026 (SPC)
- MLSys 2024,MLSys 2026
- KDD 2020, KDD 2021, KDD 2022, KDD 2023, KDD 2026
- ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2026
- IJCAI 2022, IJCAI 2023
- MICCAI 2020, MICCAI 2021, MICCAI 2022
- KDD Workshop on Outlier Detection and Description (ODD), 2021,
KDD Workshop on Anomaly and Novelty Detection (ANDEA), 2021 & 2022,
IJCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Anomalies and Novelties (AI4AN), 2020 & 2021