1. 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

   Thèse: Large-scale Data Classification and Longitudinal Data Mining for Survival Analysis (Classification des Données à Grande Échelle et Exploration de Données Longitudinales pour l’Analyse de Survie)

2. M.Sc., Fujian Normal University

   Master's in Computer Science

   Fuzhou China, 2013

   Thesis: Research on Subspace Classification Methods and Their Applications

1. Principal Scientist, DeepCox

   Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2024

2. Chercheur, Université de Sherbrooke

   Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 2022

3. Engineer (Bioinformatics), Gene Precision Oncology

   Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2021 - 2022

4. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta / Amii

   Directors: Dr Russell Greiner and Dr Nidhi Hegde
   Support: Dr Anne Snowdon @ University of Windsor / SCAN Health

   Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2020 - 2021

5. Postdoctoral Scholar, Case Western Reserve University

   Director: Dr Yanfang Ye @ University of Notre Dame

   Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2019 - 2020

6. Assistant de recherche, Université de Sherbrooke

   Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 2014 - 2019

7. Intern, Chinese Academy of Sciences

   Shenzhen China, 2012 - 2013

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 2019 Liste d'honneur aux supérieures (Graduate Honor List)

   Université de Sherbrooke, 2019

   My name appears on the Graduate Honor List for 2019

6. 2013 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award

   Fujian Normal University, 2013

   Fujian Normal University named my Master’s thesis Research on subspace classification methods and their applications as the Outstanding Master’s Thesis for 2013

7. 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student

   Fujian Normal University, 2013

   I have been awarded Outstanding Graduate Student by the Fujian Normal University for 2019

ADMA 2023 DEXA 2023 AINA 2023 IJCAI 2022 CIKM 2021 PAKDD 2019 CAp 2017 AINA 2017 ICDM 2016 AAAI 2016

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)