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Oct 05, 2025 šŸŽ¤ Invited talks at AMS Fall Southeastern Meeting: ā€œLearning Topological Signatures: TDA and ML at Scaleā€!
Jun 09, 2025 šŸš€ I’ve joined National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) as a Research Scientist on the ā€˜s Data, Analysis, and Visualization team! I’m excited to continue working on ML, TDA, and visualization for critical materials and energy systems.
Jan 19, 2025 🌟 Our paper ā€œLearning production functions for supply chains with graph neural networksā€ has been accpeted for an oral presentation at AAAI 2025 (top 5%)!
Nov 04, 2024 šŸŽ“ I defended my dissertation, ā€œMetric Learning on Topological Descriptorsā€! Special thanks to my thesis committee and all the wonderful people who have supported me throughout my PhD.
Aug 08, 2024 šŸŽ‰ We got the Best Paper Award at VIS 2024 (top 1%)! I’m honored to be giving a plenary talk right after the opening ceremony.
Jul 29, 2024 🌟 Our paper ā€œRapid and Precise Topological Comparison with Merge Tree Neural Networksā€ has been accpeted by IEEE VIS with an acceptance rate of 22.26%! The paper will be published in the special issue of the IEEE TVCG jounral. Looking forward to seeing everyone in St. Pete Beach.
Jul 15, 2024 šŸ›Ž I’m participating in the ICML Topological Deep Learning Challenge 2024! I’m proposing a novel topological lifting approach based on node attributes to convert a graph into a hypergraph. Check out our implementation details here.
Apr 10, 2024 ✨ New Paper! We introduce Merge Tree Neural Networks (MTNN), a leanred neural network model specifically designed for merge tree comparison. MTNN dramatically enhances the speed and quality of similarity computations, and speeds up the prior state-of-the-art by more than 100x on the benchmark datasets while maintaining an error rate below 0.1%, more details on [paper].
Dec 15, 2023 šŸ›Ž I’m attending NeurIPS 2023! I’m serving on the program committee for Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps) this year!
Oct 15, 2023 šŸŽ¤ I’m attending IEEE VIS 2023! Check out our works in TopoInVis and EnergyVis. In TopoInVis, we propose a method to visualize topological importance [slide] , and in EnergyVis, we use Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to detect extreme climate events at scale [slide].
Sep 15, 2023 šŸ† Selected as a Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2023 scholar!