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Curriculum Vitae.
Eighteen years, four universities, two continents — the whole record, one document.
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Years Active (2008–2026)
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Invited Talks
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Theoretical Foundations
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Approximate Posterior Inference
Bayesian Nonparametric Statistics
Probabilistic Topic Modeling
Domain Applications
Web Search & Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing
Social Networks & Urban Human Computing
Learning-to-Rank
Modern Architectures
Word Embeddings
Deep Neural Networks
Multi-modal Machine Learning
August 2024 - Present
Associate Professor (Teaching and Research)
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
May 2022 - July 2024
Lecturer (Teaching and Research)
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Finalist: Vice Chancellor's Awards 2024 (Teaching)
January 2020 - April 2022
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and AI
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Awarded: Outstanding Early-Career Researcher 2021 →
November 2014 - July 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) / Microsoft Research Asia
August 2009 - July 2014
Ph.D. in Information Systems
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Thesis: Latent Probabilistic Topic Discovery for Text Documents Incorporating Segment Structure and Word Order.
Finalist: Best Research Awards (entire Hong Kong)
September 2004 - July 2008
Bachelor of Technology in CSE
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT)
Ranked among top 10% | Superb (S) Grade ThesisA selection of invited lectures and panel appearances across academia and industry.
July 2019
Summer School Lecturer
Department of Intelligent Computing and Sensing Laboratory, Peking University, Beijing
The only academic selected from the entire UK/EU region — ahead of senior lecturers and professors nominated alongside me- ▹ 2025 — University of Sheffield, Panel Talk
- ▹ 2023 — Thomson Reuters London Research Labs
- ▹ 2023 — Thomson Reuters India Research Labs
- ▹ 2022 — AACL Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Panel Discussion Member
- ▹ 2021 — BT AI Global Festival (Online)
- ▹ DavisAI Seminar Talk
- ▹ Invited talk on my GCRF project at CURE: Global Challenges (GCRF)
- ▹ October 2018 — Digital Humanities Workshop, CHASE Group
- ▹ October 2018 — BenevolentAI
- ▹ March 2018 — Centre for Language and Linguistics, University of Kent (with Prof. Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow)
- ▹ March 2018 — Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London
- ▹ November 2017 — School of Mathematics, Cardiff University
- ▹ December 2017 — SEEM Seminar Series, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- ▹ June 2017 — "Probabilistic Topic Models" Workshop Talk, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University
Peer review and editorial service across the top venues in AI, NLP, and information retrieval.
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Reviewer Distinctions
Editorial Roles
- ▹ Associate Editor: AI Communications
- ▹ Guest Editor: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems — Special Issue on Computational Social Systems for COVID-19 Emergency Management and Beyond (2020)
- ▹ Guest Editor: Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics — Multi-scale Assessment of Research Priorities over Acknowledgement and Funding Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Senior Programme Committee
5 venues
Senior Programme Committee
5 venues
ICASSP 2025
IJCNN 2025
ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2025, 2026
ECAI 2023, 2024, 2025
AAAI 2024, 2025, 2026
Programme Committee Member
24 venues
Programme Committee Member
24 venues
AICCSA 2014
HICSS 2015
RussIR 2016
WWW 2017, 2018 / WebConf 2024
SIGKDD 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
NAACL 2021
SIGIR 2017–2024
IJCAI 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024
CIKM 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024
UKCI 2017
COLING 2018, 2020 / LREC-COLING 2024
AAAI 2019, 2020, 2021
ECIR 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024
EMNLP 2019–2023
AACL-IJCNLP 2020, 2023
WSDM 2021, 2022, 2024
EACL 2021
ACL 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
NeurIPS 2022, 2023
ICML 2023, 2024
ECML-PKDD 2023
SDM 2024
SIGCHI 2024
ICLR 2021, 2022, 2024
External / Sub-Reviewer
9 venues, 2012–2017
External / Sub-Reviewer
9 venues, 2012–2017
Journal Reviewing
19 journals, 3 distinctions
Journal Reviewing
19 journals, 3 distinctions
Transactions on the Web (TWEB) — Distinguished Review Board
WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery — Reviewing Certificate
Computer Speech & Language — Outstanding Reviewer
Entropy
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Information Retrieval Journal
The Computer Journal
Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Information Processing and Management (IP&M)
Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS)
Neural Networks
Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
Information — Reviewer Board
Computational Linguistics — Reviewer Board
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Artificial Intelligence Communications
Programming & Scripting Languages
C
C++
Python
R
MATLAB
SED
AWK
Perl
Linux Shell Scripting
Productivity & Tooling
LaTeX
MS Office
LibreOffice
Vim
Operating Systems
Linux & variants
Microsoft Windows
Sun Solaris