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Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 2023-present

Computing Small Volume Confidence Set for Arbitrary Distributions
Theory Seminar, Purdue University, Oct 9, 2025
Error Tolerant E-Discovery Protocol
- IDEAL talk series, April 12, 2024
- Illinois Institute of Technology, Feb 29, 2024
Random Cuts are Optimal for Explainable k-Medians
EnCORE Workshop on Old Questions and New Directions in Theory of Clustering, 2024
Explainable k-means: Don’t Be Greedy, Plant Bigger Trees!
- SoCG Workshop on Recent Developments in Geometric Clustering, June 13, 2023
- IDEAL Workshop on Machine Learning, Interpretability, and Logic, Apr 14, 2023
- University of Science and Technology of China, May 26, 2022
- IDEAL Workshop on Clustering, Northwestern University, Apr 23, 2022
Higher-Order Cheeger Inequality for Partitioning with Buffers
- Theory Seminar, University of Michigan, Jan 6, 2023
- Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop, Jan 5, 2023
Near-Optimal Algorithms for Explainable k-Medians and k-Means
Fudan University, Dec 18, 2021
Reducing the Spread of Infection in SIR Epidemic Models
Northwestern University, Dec 2, 2020
Improved Guarantees for k-Means++ and k-Means++ Parallel
Yahoo Research, Nov 5, 2020

Reviewer: ICML 2021/2022/2023/2024/2025, NeurIPS 2021/2022/2023/2024/2025, AAAI 2022/2023/2024/2025/2026, ICLR 2022/2023/2024/2025, SODA 2023/2024, FOCS 2023, ICALP 2023, JAIR, TCS
Volunteer: STOC 2020, FOCS 2021

Top Reviewer, Neurips 2025
Outstanding Reviewer, ICLR 2024
Terminal Year Fellowship, Northwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering, 2022
PhD Student Research Award, Northwestern University, Computer Science Department, 2022

Yahoo Research (work with Balazs Szorenyi and Mohammad Mahdi Khalili), 2022 Summer

Teaching Assistant:
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Northwestern University, 2019/2020/2021 Winter & 2021 Fall