About Me

I am very excited to be a co-PI in the NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems!


I am currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. I started there in Jan. 2017 as an Assistant Professor and became an Asocciate Professor in 2024. Before that, I was an ORISE research fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Viral Hepatitis Lab.

I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. My advisor was Prof. José M.F. Moura. I have my MS and BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Stanford University and Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively.

My research interests are broadly related to the area of network science, complex systems, signal processing, statistical machine learning, and dynamical systems. In term of applications, I am currently interested in nonlinear dynamical system, knowledge graph, and biological processes like population genetics modeling and phylodynamics, social processes like the spread of information or behavior.

Academic History

  • 2024-currentAssociate Professor

    Electrical Engineering
    University of Hawaii at Mānoa

  • 2017-2024Assistant Professor

    Electrical Engineering
    University of Hawaii at Mānoa

  • 2016-2017ORISE Research Fellow

    Division of Viral Hepatitis
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • 2010-2015PhD Student

    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Carnegie Mellon University