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I am currently a PhD candidate and HKPFS awardee at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) advised by Prof. Pan Hui. Previously, I was a visiting researcher at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yong Li, and a visiting researcher at Knowledge Lab, University of Chicago, advised by Prof. James Evans.

I am actively looking for a PostDoc position starting after Jan 2025. Please email me if you are interested in my profile!

Research Interest

My research interests lie in data science, urban science, computational social science, and graph neural networks. Currently, I mainly focus on human mobility networks, urban inequality, segregation, and urban resilience.

News

• [Aug 2024] Our work, Large Language Model-driven Meta-structure Discovery in Heterogeneous Information Network, is published in KDD’24.
• [Aug 2024] Our work, VulnerabilityMap: An Open Framework for Mapping Vulnerability among Urban Disadvantaged Populations in the United States, is published in IJCAI’24.
• [Apr 2024] I am admitted to the Summer Institute of Computational Social Science at UPenn (SICSS-Penn)!
• [Apr 2024] Our submission on mobility network resilience is accepted to IC2S2’24 in Philadelphia!
• [Jan 2024] Our work, Counterfactual mobility network embedding reveals prevalent accessibility gaps in U.S. cities, is published in Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
• [Dec 2023] Our work, How enlightened self-interest guided global vaccine sharing benefits all: a modeling study, is published in Journal of Global Health.
• [Nov 2023] I was selected (one of the 24 shortlisted participants worldwide) to attend the Asian Deans’ Forum 2023 - The Rising Stars Women in Engineering Workshop at UTokyo.
• [Aug 2023] I presented a poster about my NatHumBehav work at The First Research Summit for Urban Science (RSUS’23) in Beijing.
• [Jun 2023] Our work, Getting Back on Track: Understanding COVID-19 Impact on Urban Mobility and Segregation with Location Service Data, is published in ICWSM’23.
• [Aug 2022] Our work, Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity is now online in Nature Human Behaviour.

Selected Awards

• KDD Student Travel Award, 2024
• HKUST Conference Travel Grant, 2024
• Rising Stars Women in Engineering, Asian Deans’ Forum, 2023
• ICWSM Student Travel Grant, 2023
• HKUST Overseas Research Award, 2022
• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS), 2020-2024
• Shanghai Outstanding Bachelor Graduate, 2020
• China National Scholarship, 2019
• China National Scholarship, 2018
• China National Scholarship, 2017

Academic Service

• Conference Reviewer: TNSE (20), TheWebConf (22), IC2S2 (22, 24), IMWUT (22), WSDM (23), KDD (24)
• Journal Reviewer: Journal of Social Computing
• Session Chair: ICWSM (23), RSUS (23)

Languages

• Chinese (Native, both Putonghua & Teochew)
• English (Proficient)
• Korean (Beginner)