He is directing the data science and engineering lab (http:dse.cse.msu.edu) at MSU. He received his Ph.D. of Computer Science at Arizona State University in 2015, and B.S.M.S. from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2008 and 2010, respectively. His research interests include social computing, data mining and machine learning. He was awarded the best paper award of SIGKDD2016 and the Runner Up of SIGKDD Dissertation Award 2015. He was the industry chair of SBP2017, the sponsorship co-chair of SDM2017, the poster chair of SIGKDD2016 and serves as regular journal reviewers and numerous conference program committees. He co-presented three tutorials in KDD2014, WWW2014, and Recsys2014, and has published innovative works in highly ranked journals and top conference proceedings that have received extensive coverage in the media.