John's

Professional Memberships

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

Lifetime member

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Lifetime member

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Member, 2022-now

Conference Organization

ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Committee

ACM SIGMOD 2023

Proceedings Chair

ACM SIGMOD 2022

Availability & Reproducibility Committee

ACM SIGMOD 2021, 2022, 2023

"Best Demo" Award Committee

VLDB 2019

Conference Program Committee (PC) Member

Databases & Data Analytics

ACM SIGMOD

2021, 2023, 2024

VLDB

2019 (Demo Track), 2023

IEEE ICDE

2019 (Demo Track), 2020, 2022, 2023

Data Mining

ACM SIGKDD

2023

Artificial Intelligence

IJCAI

2020 (Senior PC), 2021 (Senior PC), 2022, 2023

AAAI

2022, 2023

Machine Learning

ICML

2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

ICRL

2021, 2022, 2023

NeurIPS

2021, 2022

Invited Reviewer for Journals

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE)

The Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDBJ)

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT)

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD)

Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)

Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal (DAPD)

Pattern Recognition

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Journal

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS)

Technometrics

Quantitative Finance

Journal of Information Science

Information Sciences

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH)

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

IEEE Access

Sensors

University Service

OSU CSE Graduate Admissions Committee

2022, 2023

OSU Data I/O Hackathon Judge

2022

Leadership and other activities

2020-2022

UChicago Match Program

Participated in advising programs for students from underrepresented, low income, or first generation backgrounds. I advised and offered paid research positions to Odyssey Scholars, Empower Scholars, and Metcalf Fellows.

2019-2022

UChicago Provost’s Postdoc Advisory Board

Communicated issues and coordinated efforts for improving international affairs (e.g., VISAs), diversity and inclusion initiatives, and entrepreneurship conflicts with IP.

2019-2022

UChicago PSD Postdoc Representative

Represented CS postdoctoral researchers at the Physical Sciences Division (PSD).

2016, 2018

Organized social events, helped in Ph.D. orientations, and reviewed M.S. applications.