Honors & Services
Recognition and contributions to the academic community
Honors & Awards
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fellowship2025
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Cancer Grand Challenges Shortlist Team Biologia Ex Machina — Cancer Research UK & NCI; final decision March 20262025
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OpenAI Research Grant Award One of 11 teams selected worldwide2024
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NeurIPS Oral Presentation Top 2% of submissions2023
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Top Reviewer Award, NeurIPS2023
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Best Paper Award, SoCal NLP Symposium2023
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Third-Place Honor, Inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge2022
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Graduate Research Award (Mike Liu Scholarship), CSE, OSU2022
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Rising Stars in Data Science, University of Chicago CDAC2021
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Graduate Student Research Poster Award (Top 5), CSE, OSU2021
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SIGIR Student Travel Grant2021
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SIGKDD Student Travel Award2019
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Excellent Bachelor Degree Thesis Award, Shandong Province, China2016
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Excellent Graduate Thesis Award, UPC, China2015
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China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China Visiting Student Program at Polytech Nice Sophia, Nice, France2015
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National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China Top 0.2%2014
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Soong Ching Ling Foundation (SCLF) Scholarship, China2013
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National Scholarship for Encouragement, China2012
Academic Services
Workshop Organization
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Primary Organizer
LAW 2025: Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning and Planning @ NeurIPS 2025
Co-organizers: Alane Suhr, Jacob Andreas, Jianwen Xie, Kelsey Allen, Tianmin Shu, Zhiting Hu, Ziqiao Ma, Jessy Lin, Melanie Sclar Speakers: Eric Xing, François Chollet, Chelsea Finn, Sherry Yang, Danijar Hafner, Ying Nian Wu
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Primary Organizer
Biologia Ex Machina 2026: Toward Trusted AI Collaborators for Biological Discovery
(submitted workshop proposal)
Co-organizers: Marinka Zitnik, Rose Yu, Trey Ideker, Qingyun Wang
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Co-organizer
AI/LLM Agents for Social Simulation: Challenges and Opportunities
(submitted workshop proposal)
Co-organizers: Xuan Wang, Dawei Zhou, Lifu Huang, Naren Ramakrishnan, Chris North, Le Wang, Yun Huang
Area Chair / Senior PC Member
NLPCC 2023
Program Committee Member
ICML 2023–25
NeurIPS 2023–25
ICLR 2024–26
COLM 2024–25
ACL 2018, 21, 23–24
EMNLP 2021–25
NAACL 2021–22, 24
NAACL SUKI Workshop 2022
ACL ARR 2021–25
KDD 2019–20, 23–24
AAAI 2023–24
NLPCC 2020–22, 24
Neural Networks
Communications of the ACM
External Reviewer
KDD 2019–20
ACL 2018
ICDM 2018