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. 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 human-computer interaction. In term of applications, I am interested in biological processes like population genetics modeling and phylodynamics, social processes like the spread of information or behavior, and Demand Response management in power system and market.

Academic History

  • 2017-PresentAssociate 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