He received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at June 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Jiawei Han. From July 2004 to January 2008, he was an assistant professor at the University of Iowa. Since January 2008, he has been an assistant professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). His research interests include data mining, database, information retrieval, machine learning, support vector machines, and bioinformatics. He is an associate editor in Neurocomputing and served a NSF panel at 2006. He has served in program committees of IEEE ICDM, ACM CIKM, and SIAM Data Mining, ACM SAC.
2004 Nominated from UIOWA for the Microsoft Junior Faculty Award
2003 The 2003 UIUC Data Mining Research Gold Award
2003 IBM Research Student Scholarship Award from ACM SIGKDD'03 (International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
2003 AAAI Student Scholarship Award from IJCAI'03 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
2003 Student Scholarship Award from CIKM'03 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
2002 IBM Research Student Scholarship Award from ACM SIGKDD'02