She was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research in 2006-2010. She received her Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. Her research interest is data mining and machine learning with applications to social media, biology and climate science. She has received several awards, including NSF CAREER Award, Okawa Foundation Research Award, ACM Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award in SIAM Data Mining Conference, Yahoo! Faculty Award and the winner of several data mining competitions, such as KDD Cup and INFORMS data mining competition. She has published over 10 referred articles on temporal causal models for time series data in top conferences, such as KDD, ICML, ICDM, SDM and AAAI, and given invited talks on the topic in many institutions and industrial research labs. R8 (Tutorial 8) Tutorial Material