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Recent News (2025-2026)

• 06/2026: Our paper “Physics-Aware Variational Autoencoder for Urban Travel Demand Calibration” was accepted by TMLR as is, in collaboration with Google Maps and Google Research.
• 05/2026: Serving as an Area Chair for the KDD 2026 D&B Track.
• 05/2026: Our paper “Trustworthy Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction via Reliability-Aware Multi-Engine Fusion” was accepted to the AI4Sciences Track at KDD 2026!
• 05/2026: Our paper “TemporalBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Based Agents on Contextual and Event-Informed Time Series Tasks” was accepted to the D&B Track at KDD 2026!
• 05/2026: Honored to be recognized as an ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer, placing among the top reviewers for this year’s conference.
• 05/2026: I am honored to have been awarded the USC Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
• 04/2026: One paper on LLM retrieval security, query-agnostic black-box attacks, accepted by ICML!
• 04/2026: One position paper on verifiable Physiological Waveform Reasoning with foundation models and agentic LLMs accepted by ICML!
• 04/2026: One paper on numerical embeddings for LLM time-series forecasting, multi-wavelet number embeddings, accepted by IJCAI!
• 03/2026: TS-Reasoner, our domain-oriented time series inference agent, was accepted by TMLR!
• 01/2026: One paper on human-in-the-loop multi-agent LLM systems accepted by ICLR!
• 01/2026: One paper on physics-informed diffusion transformers for time series foundation models accepted by ICLR!
• 01/2026: One paper on Offline RL accepted by AISTATS!
• 01/2026: Invited talk “Frontiers of Physics-Informed Time Series Foundation Models.” Host: Peking University, School of AI for Science.
• 01/2026: Invited talk “TSFoundation: From Foundation Models to Agents Orchestration.” Host: DataDog AI Research Lab.
• 12/2025: 🚀 TSOrchestra, our agentic-guided foundation model forecasting framework from USC Melady Lab, reached Rank #1 on the Salesforce GIFT-Eval leaderboard (MASE & CRPS)!
• 10/2025: Invited talk on Advancing Time Series Analysis with Unified Foundation Models at Rice University - CS Department!
• 10/2025: Invited talk on Advancing Time Series Analysis with Unified Foundation Models at Prairie View A&M University - Center of Excellence in Research and Education for Big Military Data Intelligence!
• 09/2025: Invited talk on Time Series Foundation Models at Caltech - Academia-Industry X!
• 07/2025: Invited talk on Time Series Foundation Models at UCSD & Abel.AI!
• 03/2025: Invited talk on New Frontiers in Time Series Foundation Models at University of British Columbia!
• 10/2024: Invited talk on Time Series Foundation Model in QuantLLM Community!
• 10/2024: Invited talk on Time Series Foundation Model in Lehigh University!
• 09/2024: Invited talk on Time Series Foundation Model in Emory University!
• 09/2024: One paper on Simulator Calibration with Google Research accepted by NeurIPS!
• 06/2024: Started summer internship at Cubist as a Quantitative Researcher!
• 04/2024: Time Series Foundation Model - TEMPO (ICLR 2024) published on Github and Hugging Face!
• 04/2024: Selected for the 2024 Best Research Assistant Award in USC CS Department! (1 per department)
• 03/2024: Awarded a Graduate School Endowed Fellowship for the academic year!
• 01/2024: One paper accepted by WWW and two papers accepted by ICLR!