I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Technology at York University. I received my Ph.D in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University under the supervision of Prof. Jian Pei. Additionally, I have extensive industry experience, including work with leading companies such as Amazon.

Research Areas: Data Science, Data Valuation, Data Market, Machine Learning

Prospective Students

I am currently recruiting multiple Ph.D. students to join my team starting in Fall 2025. Students with a strong background and keen interest in data science, databases, data engineering, and machine learning are warmly encouraged to apply. I am particularly looking for Ph.D. students passionate about the following research areas:

• Data markets and their applications
• Data valuation in machine learning
• Interpretation of data valuation methods

Prospective students are encouraged to send your CV, transcripts, and a short self-introduction. Please include [Prospective Ph.D. Student] in your email title. Women students and individuals from underrepresented groups in information technology and computer science are especially encouraged to apply. Due to large amount of emails, I may not be able to respond to all inquiries.

If you are an undergraduate, M.S. student, or admitted Ph.D. student at York University and would like to work with me, please email me or visit my office for a chat.

Recent News

• [August 2024] I am thrilled to serve as a local arrangement chair for KDD 2025.

• [July 2024] I am thrilld to serve as a program commitee member for ICDE 2025.

• [Feb 2024] Our tutorial (by Xuan Luo and Jian Pei), “Applications and Computation of the Shapley Value in Databases and Machine Learning” has been accepted by SIGMOD 2024.