Prior to joining UIC in 2015, he worked as a Research Staff Member at IBM Research. Yuheng obtained his Ph.D in Computer Science at Arizona State University. His research interests are on the intersection of Social Computing and Data Mining, with a particular focus on analyzing, characterizing and predicting large-scale, time-varying, heterogeneous human behaviors manifested in their online footprints at both individual and collective levels. His research has won several paper awards and frequently featured in major media, including ABC, PBS, the Seattle Times, the Huffington Post, WIRED magazine and so on.