Projects

Information retrieval, responsible AI, and information theory

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Information Theory

The definition and measurement of information is fundamental to methods for information retrieval, text mining, and machine learning.

Privacy-Preserving Library Analytics

A local small-model system for interpretable analysis of library survey data while keeping sensitive institutional data under local control.

Deep Delight

Machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, training and fine tuning with DLITE loss.

Search & Retrieval

Decentralized search and retrieval on the web scale. Efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability.

Awards and Honors

Instructor of the Week, Drexel

Outstanding Online Faculty, Drexel

Vannevar Bush Best Paper, ACM JCDL

CAS Student Award, ASIS&T

Best Paper Nominee, AAAI ICWSM

The First Place Award, IEEE InfoVis

Experience

Industry to Academia

 
 
 
 
 

Associate Dept Head for Grad Affairs

Information Science, Drexel University

Sep 2021 – Aug 2025 Philadelphia, PA
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

Information Science, Drexel University

Sep 2016 – Present Philadelphia, PA
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Information Science, Drexel University

Sep 2010 – Aug 2016 Philadelphia, PA
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant & Adj. Instructor

The University of North Carolina

Sep 2007 – Aug 2010 Chapel Hill, NC
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Indiana University

Sep 2004 – Aug 2007 Bloomington, IN
 
 
 
 
 

Technical Director

ManguIce Ltd.

Sep 2002 – Dec 2003 Shanghai, China
 
 
 
 
 

Project Manager

eBay China

Mar 2002 – Aug 2002 Shanghai, China
 
 
 
 
 

Software Development Manager

Lycos Asia

Oct 1999 – Mar 2002 Shanghai, China
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Great Wall eInfoNet

Mar 1998 – Sep 1999 Shanghai, China

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