Education
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Ph.D., Université de Sherbrooke
Doctorat en informatique (AI and Health Informatics)
Supervisors: Dr Shengrui Wang and Dr Alain Vanasse (MD, PhD)Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 2019
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M.Sc., Fujian Normal University
Master's in Computer Science
Fuzhou China, 2013
Thesis: Research on Subspace Classification Methods and Their Applications
Experience
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Principal Scientist, DeepCox
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2024
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Chercheur, Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 2022
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Engineer (Bioinformatics), Gene Precision Oncology
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2021 - 2022
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta / Amii
Directors: Dr Russell Greiner and Dr Nidhi Hegde
Support: Dr Anne Snowdon @ University of Windsor / SCAN HealthEdmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2020 - 2021
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Case Western Reserve University
Director: Dr Yanfang Ye @ University of Notre Dame
Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2019 - 2020
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Assistant de recherche, Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 2014 - 2019
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Intern, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenzhen China, 2012 - 2013
Awards & Honors
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2021 CIKM Best Paper Award (First Author)Ranked 1st among 1251 submissions
30th ACM CIKM named my paper RxNet: Rx-refill graph neural network for overprescribing detection as the Best Paper among the 1251 submissions
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2019 PAKDD Best Application Paper Award (First Author)Ranked 1st among 567 submissions
23rd PAKDD named my paper Time-dependent survival neural network for remaining useful life prediction as the Best Application Paper. My work ranked 1st among the 567 submissions
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2019 Concours prix étudiants pour articles (Best Students' Paper Prize)Ranked 2nd among all medical articles
I have been awarded the Best Students' Paper Prize (le concours prix étudiants pour articles scientifiques) by CRCHUS, CdRV, and CR-CSIS at the Sherbrooke biggest hospital (CHUS), for my work Feature-weighted survival learning machine for COPD failure prediction in 2019
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2019 Prix de la meilleure thèse de doctorat (Best Doctoral Thesis Award)Ranked 1st @ Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke
Faulté des Sciences named my thesis Large-scale data classification and longitudinal data mining for survival analysis as the Best Doctoral Thesis across the five departments of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physical, for 2019
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Université de Sherbrooke, 20192019 Liste d'honneur aux supérieures (Graduate Honor List)My name appears on the Graduate Honor List for 2019
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Fujian Normal University, 20132013 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award Fujian Normal University named my Master’s thesis Research on subspace classification methods and their applications as the Outstanding Master’s Thesis for 2013
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Fujian Normal University, 20132013 Outstanding Graduate Student I have been awarded Outstanding Graduate Student by the Fujian Normal University for 2019
Presentations
ADMA 2023 DEXA 2023 AINA 2023 IJCAI 2022 CIKM 2021 PAKDD 2019 CAp 2017 AINA 2017 ICDM 2016 AAAI 2016
Review Services
Conference PC Member
AAAI (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) KDD (2022, 2023) ICDM (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025) ECML/PKDD (2020, 2022, 2023) ACL (2024) PAKDD (2024, 2025) AINA (2017, 2023: session chair)
Journal Reviewer
ML (2024) AIM (2023) ESWA (2021-2023) KAIS (2024) CC (2023) SciRep (2022-2024) IEEE Netw Mag (2023) JMH (2023) DAPR (2018-2024) Comp Netw (2023) NPJ MHR (2024) BMC ED (2024) BMC MRM (2024) IJEM (2024) ASEJ (2021) IEEE TITS (2022) IEEE TBD (2019) IEEE TKDE (2019) IEEE TNSE (2019) Heliyon (2024) JKSU-CIS (2019) IJCOPDJ (2019) COPD (2019)