Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. My research interests include applied statistics for cyber-physical security and resilience, online anomaly detection, reinforcement learning, and complex systems modeling and control. I received my Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (minor in Machine Learning) and M.S. in Statistics from Georgia Tech. I also hold a B.S. in Mechanical (Automotive) Engineering from Tsinghua University.

News

Oct 2026: Congratulations to Navid for passing his general exam and receiving PhD candidacy!
Sep 2026: Congratulations to Junyi for getting her paper accepted for NeurIPS 2026!
Aug 2026: I am excited to receive an NSF M3X grant on Human-Inspired Cyber-Physical Security in Human-Robot Interactions! This is a collaborative research with Dr. Jundi Liu and Dr. Bowen Weng from Iowa State University.
Aug 2026: Congratulations to Navid for getting his paper accepted for Journal of Manufacturing Systems!
Jul 2026: Congratulations to Navid for getting his paper accepted for IEEE TASE!
Jul 2026: Congratulations to Navid for getting his paper accepted for ICMLA 2026!
Jun 2026: Congratulations to Junyi for getting her paper accepted for Technometrics!