About
I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. My research has been supported by NVIDIA, Google, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Currently, I’m interested in three areas:
🧠 Explainable artificial intelligence
Within the field of AI, I am most interested in explainable AI, a subfield dedicated to uncovering the mechanisms behind AI’s successes and failures. I see this as the pursuit of “understanding the logic behind the magic of AI.”
⚕️ Health informatics
Answers to many of today’s medical problems may already exist in the world; we just haven’t found them yet. It will require effort to mine them. I am interested in studying and improving human health through health informatics.
📚 AI and education
After I accidentally invented Process Feedback in 2023, I’ve also been actively researching in the area of AI, education, and educational tools. Thousands of teachers and students around the globe who are actively using it inspire me to continue to research in the area of AI and education.
I would like to express my gratitude to all the remarkable individuals who have supported me in the past or continue to be my source of energy and inspiration. A consistent source of inspiration in my work is Richard Hamming’s seminal talk, You and Your Research.
Select Professional Activities
- 2022 - present, University Ambassador, NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
- 2019 - present, Senior Member, IEEE
Select Awards
- 2024, Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
- 2022, Outstanding Research Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
- 2015, Oral Presentation Student Award (1st place), 12th annual MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Conference, Little Rock, USA.
Office Address
Room 312, 3rd floor in Express Scripts Hall (ESH Building).
Contact
Mailing Address
1 University Blvd. 312 Express Scripts Hall
St. Louis, MO 63121