Research


Sponsors


Generative AI

Projects: OpenTI, ICLR'26a, EACL'26a (Instructional Agents), EACL'26b, EACL'26c, ACL'25a, ACL'25b, KDD'25a, KDD'25b, IJCAI'25 (DeepShade), SDM'25a, SDM'25b, KDD'26a (ShadeBench), ICML'26a, ICML'26b

Generative AI expresses the possibility of human-like AI. We investigate its potential and pitfalls.

Sim-to-real Transfer

Papers: Survey, KDD'26b, ICLR'26b, AAAI'26, RLC'25, ICCPS'25a, AAAI'24aAAAI'24b, ITSC'24 (SynTrac), CDC'23a,CASE'23

Training in simulation would fail to perform similarly in the real world. We investigate how to transfer from simulation to the real world.

Learning to Simulate

Papers: KDD'26a (ShadeBench) ECML-PKDD'24aPADS'23ERA'23KDD'22AAAI'21ICDE'21ECML-PKDD'20

Realistic simulators are a step closer towards policymaking for the real world. We investigate how to build realistic simulators from real-world data.

Simulator/Environment Building/Datasets

Project websites: Terminal Simulation, CityFlowER, Honor of Kings (王者荣耀)LibSignalCityFlowEpidemicProduct Allocator

Simulators are the foundation of reinforcement learning. We built a bunch of simulators for various applications, including MOBA Games, transportation, epidemics, and product allocation.

Trustworthy Deep Learning

Papers: ACL'26a, ACL'26b, ACL'26c, EACL'26b, EACL'26c, SIGKDD Explorations'25, COLM'25, KDD'25a, KDD'25c, ICML'25a, ICML'25b, AAAI'24aAAAI'24c, ICDM'23CDC'23a, CIKM'23, KDD'23, IJCAI'23, ERA'23AAAI'23IAAI'22IJCAI'21aIJCAI'21bUSENIX Security'21 (Adversarial Policies)

The project investigates different aspects of trustworthy deep learning, including robust modeling for deep learning models with physics, reinforcement learning with offline data, and adversarial policy training.

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Papers: Survey (Arxiv)Survey(KDD Explorations)AAAI'24aCDC'23aCDC'23bCASE'23IJCAI'23AAAI'23AAAI'20KDD'19CIKM'19aCIKM'19bKDD'18

The project systematically investigates "smart" traffic light control systems using deep reinforcement learning and evaluate its effectiveness on both synthetic and real-world traffic data.

Spatio-temporal Data Mining

Papers: ICCPS'25b, ECML-PKDD'24b, ICDM'23ERA'23a, ERA'23bAAAI'21NeurIPS'20 WorkshopAAAI'19TKDD'19WWW'19PAKDD'18CIKM'16

This project investigated the spatial-temporal prediction problems with applications in smart cities.