Education

University of Toronto
Ph.D., Computer Science, 2021
Thesis: Learning to Build Probabilistic Models with Limited Data
Advisor: Richard Zemel

University of Toronto
M.Sc., Computer Science, 2014

Yale University
B.Sc. cum laude, Biomedical Engineering, 2010

Honors & Awards

ICML Outstanding Paper Award, 2025
DataX Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University, 2023
TMLR Expert Reviewer Certification, 2023
NeurIPS Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2025, 2021, 2019
ICIP Finalist for Best Student Paper Award, 2017
ICVSS Best Presentation Award, 2014

Mentorship

Current Mentees
Liyi Zhang, CS Ph.D. student at Princeton.
Yan (Roger) Weng, CS Undergrad at Princeton.
Joshua Cheng, Mathematics Undergrad at Princeton.

Former Mentees
Gianluca Bencomo, CS Ph.D. student at Princeton. Now founder at Efference.
Bhishma Dedhia, ECE Ph.D. student at Princeton. Now a member of technical staff at Traversal.
Grace Liu, CS Master's at Princeton. Now a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon.
Feng (Shelley) Xia, CS Master's at Princeton. Now a machine learning engineer at TikTok.
Tom Zollo, CS Master's at Columbia. Now a Ph.D. student, also at Columbia.

Industry Experience

SK Telecom, Research Intern, 2018
Twitter, Research Intern, 2016

Service

Area Chair
ICLR, AutoML

Action Editor
TMLR

Journal Reviewer
JMLR, TMLR, CVIU

Conference Reviewer
NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, CVPR, CoLLAs

Professional Memberships

Sigma Xi, 2025-present
Tau Beta Pi, 2010-present