Aug 2025: Joined Falk College of Sport at Syracuse University.
May 2025: Instructor of the year award for the Department of Business Analytics.
Feb 2025: Led student teams to 1st Place at the National Collegiate Sports Analytics Championship. U Iowa student teams placed first in both undergraduate and graduate divisions.
Feb 2024: Mentored students to a National Championship at the National Collegiate Sports Analytics Championship. U Iowa students won both the undergraduate and graduate divisions individually.
Aug 2023: Joined the Department of Business Analytics at the University of Iowa.
Jan 2023: Poster Finalist in Research Paper Competition, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Jan 2023: Finalist in Boston Glory Data Modeling Challenge, Organized by Boston Glory, American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL)
Oct 2022: 1st Place in Reproducible Research Competition at Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference.
June 2021: Optimization paper accepted at the Journal of Machine Learning
Mar. 2021: Optimization paper accepted at the journal Optimization Methods and Software
Aug. 2020: Starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Indianapolis.
July 2020: Successfully defended my dissertation.
June 2020: Paper titled " Promoting Transparency with Model-Agnostic Linear Competitors" accepted at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020.
Jan. 2020: Presented the interpretable machine learning work at Joint Mathematical Meetings 2020.
Nov. 2019: Awarded Travel Grant for Joint Mathematical Meetings 2020 at Denver, Colorado.
Oct. 2019: Received the Best Paper Award Runner-up at 2019 INFORMS Third Data Science Workshop.
Sep. 2019: Nominated for Best paper award at 2019 INFORMS Third Data Science Workshop.
Aug. 2019: Accepted to give an oral presentation at 2019 INFORMS Third Data Science Workshop.
Aug. 2019: Invited to present at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2019.
Aug. 2019: Attended summer graduate school Mathematics of Machine Learning organized by MSRI, Microsoft, and University of Washington in Seattle.