I am an assistant professor at Wayne State University. My research interests lie in Neural Symbolic AI, Agentic LLMs, knowledge graph reasoning and graph mining, with a growing focus on connecting these to large language models. I lead the AID Lab — AID (AI and Data Science) — working on these topics — visit the lab page for research areas and openings.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Software
• B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Prospective Students

I have several Ph.D. positions available and am always looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students to join my team. If you are interested in my research, please feel free to reach out to me via email with the subject line Ph.D. Application -- [Your Name]. (hw6926 at wayne dot edu)

I also have multiple internship positions available. Please contact me if you are interested.