About Me
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia, co-supervised by Prof. Bhushan Gopaluni (Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering) and Prof. Fengqi You (AAAS/AIChE/FRSC Fellow) at Cornell University.
I received my Ph.D. (2024) in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of British Columbia, advised by Prof. Bhushan Gopaluni and Prof. Yankai Cao. Before that, I was a Postdoc (2024–2025) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Prof. Richard D. Braatz (Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, IEEE/IFAC/AAAS/AIChE Fellow). I obtained my B.S. and M.S. from Beijing University of Chemical Technology advised by Prof. Youqing Wang, and was a joint M.S. student at the University of Duisburg-Essen with Prof. Steven X. Ding.
My research focuses on trustworthy machine learning and its industrial applications, spanning causal discovery, process monitoring & fault diagnosis, soft sensor modeling, and fault-tolerant control. My work has been applied to refinery digital twins, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, lithium-ion battery management, and smart energy systems.
Research Interests
Causal Discovery & Inference Machine Learning Process Monitoring Fault Diagnosis Soft Sensor Modeling Fault-Tolerant Control Alarm Management Digital Twins
News
2026.06 Paper accepted at CVPR 2026 (CCF-A): "A Polynomial Chaos Framework for Causal Discovery in Nonlinear Uncertain Systems"
2026.05 Paper accepted at WWW 2026 (CCF-A): "Sparse Causal Latent Features for Robust Multimodal Learning under Distribution Shifts"
2026.04 Paper accepted at ICLR 2026 (CCF-A): "Learning Dynamic Causal Graphs Under Parametric Uncertainty via Polynomial Chaos Expansions"
2026.01 Paper accepted at AAAI 2026 (CCF-A): "A Natural-Gradient Approach for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Parameter Uncertainty"
2025.11 Started Postdoc at UBC / Cornell University with Prof. Gopaluni and Prof. Fengqi You
2025 Appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (SCI Q1 Top, IF=9.9)
2025 Appointed Youth Editor of Control Engineering Practice and The Innovation Informatics
2025 Received Outstanding Reviewer awards from IEEE TIM and Control Engineering Practice
2024 Won Second Prize at the 2024 IEEE/CAA JAS Conference on Automation for Industry 5.0
2024.03 Started Postdoc at MIT with Prof. Richard D. Braatz
2024.02 Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation at UBC
