JEFF 2011
  • Professor, School Of Computing

Professional Service

  • AIStats. Program Committee (about 5-10 papers to review and discuss). 09/2020 - 11/2020
  • ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS). PC Member (in charge of about 16 papers, reviewed 10+ personally). 09/2014 - 02/2015
  • ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). PC Member (in charge of about 40+ papers, reviewed 25+ personally). 07/2014 - 10/2014
  • Fall Workshop in Computational Geometry (FWCG). PC Member. 07/2014 - 08/2014
  • Workshop on Massive Data Algorithmics (MASSIVE). PC Member. 06/2014 - 08/2014

Honors & Awards

  • Computing Innovation (CI) Fellow. CCC-CRA-NSF, 08/2009
  • Best Student Paper. International Conference on Automation, Languages and Programming (ICALP), 06/2008
  • Graduate Research Fellowship. NSF, 08/2004
  • James B. Duke Fellowship. Duke University Graduate School, 09/2003

Internal Service

  • Internal Department Review for Department of BioMedical Informatics. 10/2022 - 01/2023. University service.
  • Faculty Hiring in Machine Learning. Chair, 01/2018 - 05/2018. Department service.
  • Faculty Mentor to Utah Data Science Club. * Organized kick-off panel with 6 data scientists, attended by 100 people (August 2017). * Help advise on organizing contact for speaking and advertising. * Created and maintain mailing list for Utah data science jobs. 08/2017 - present. College service.
  • Admissions Committee. 01/2015 - 04/2015. Department service.
  • Hiring Committee -- Foundations of Data Science. 10/2014 - 05/2015. Department service.

Community Partnership

  • Speaker at MIT Alumni (and friends) Club (on Data Science). 08/2017 - 08/2017

Affiliations

  • Center for Extreme Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization (CEDMAV), member, 08/2012 - present