Professional Activities

Mentorship

  • Data Science Clinic

    • How Do Fictional Characters Feel? Analyzing Characters’ Emotional Status in YA Novels : in collaboration with Prof. Taraneh Matloob, University of Northern Iowa;    Autumn 2023 - Winter 2024

    • Codebase Optimization and Summarization with Large Language Models : in collaboration with MorningStar Inc.;    Spring 2024

    • Developing a chatbot to serve inquiries on Thermal Energy Networks : in collaboration with Building Decarbonization Coalition;    Autumn 2024 - Winter 2025

    • AI-Enabled Grievance Redressal : in collaboration with The Data, Policy & Innovation Centre (DPIC) at University of Chicago;    Autumn 2025

    • Community Sentiment Analysis for Renewable Energy Development : in collaboration with Invenergy;    Autumn 2025

  • Data Science for Social Impact Summer Experience

    • Summer 2024
      • Food Categorization for Center for Good Food Purchasing
      • Quotation Extraction – The mBio Project
      • Finetuning Transformers for Text Summarization of Form 8Ks - Banktrack
    • Summer 2025
      • Text Classification for Commercial Debt Tracking
      • Q/A Bot for Parsing Country-Specific Agricultural Regulations
      • Topic Classification of Grievances Against Palm Oil Producer
      • Named Entity Recognition on Congressional Donation Records
      • Bias or Stereotype Detection in Online Humorous Content

Invited Talks

  • 2024: Labor in Data Science and AI at the 2024 Academic Data Science Alliance Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI
  • 2024: Natual Language Processing - What’s going on? What lies ahead?, UChicago Data Science Society, Chicago, IL
  • 2023: Globally Aware Contextual Embeddings for Named Entity Recognition in Social Media Streams at the 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Anaheim, CA
  • 2022: Boosting Entity Mention Detection for Targetted Twitter Streams with Global Contextual Embeddings at the 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

Teaching Workshop

I participated in the multi-semester UChicago Preceptor Professional Development Workshop with Prof. Anne Close at the City Colleges of Chicago and other DSI Preceptors. During these workshops, we critically reflect upon our ongoing teaching duties, review instructional pedagogy and evidence based teaching practices.

  • Fall 2023: Introduction to the Talents of Teaching

  • Spring 2024: Bringing the Talents of Teaching into the Classroom

  • Fall 2024: Developing a Reflective Teaching Practice

  • Spring 2025: Developing a Teaching and Service Philosophy

Service to the Profession

  • Requested Reviewer:

    • 2026 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
    • 2025 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

  • External Reviewer:

    • 2022 ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
    • 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
    • 2020 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
    • 2019 ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
    • 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)