Miscellaneous

Selected Professional Services & Activities

• Senior Area Chair for ICML; Area Chair for NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, UAI, AAMAS; Action Editor for TMLR; Senior Program Committee for AAAI

• Conference Editorial Board (CEB) of IEEE CSS; Program Committee for COLT, ALT, IFAC World Congress, NecSys

• Committee for Rising Stars in Machine Learning founded at Maryland

• Organizer of the online seminar series Games, Decisions & Networks

• Reviewer for ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), Mathematical Programming (MP), Mathematics of Operations Research (Math OR), Operations Research (OR), IEEE Trans. Automatic Control (TAC), Automatica, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP), IEEE Trans. Smart Grid (TSG), IEEE Trans. Power Systems (TPS), IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), System & Control Letters, IEEE Communications Letters (CL), Learning for Dynamics & Control Conf. (L4DC), IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC)

Tutorials

• Invited Tutorial at EPFL/ETHZ Summer School on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (Theory) (also partially presented as an ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 Tutorial, jointly with Z. Chen)

• Invited Talk at ECC 2024 Tutorial Learning-based Control: Fundamentals and Recent Advances on Representation Learning for Control (organized by A. Mahajan and S. Niculescu)

• Invited Tutorial at L4DC 2023 on Policy Optimization for Control (jointly with M. Fazel, B. Hu, N. Li) (also presented as an ACC 2023 Workshop, jointly with B. Hu, N. Li, M. Mesbahi, Y. Zheng)

Selected Awards & Honors

• International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG) Tom Vincent Best Paper Award

• Donald P. Eckman Award

• National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Invitee

• George Corcoran Memorial Award for Teaching and Educational Leadership

• JP Morgan Faculty Research Award

• AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award

• Outstanding Meta Reviewer, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award

• Open Philanthropy AI Safety Research Award

• AAAI New Faculty Highlights

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Outstanding Paper Award

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) TC Best-Paper Award

• Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) Ph.D. Thesis Award

• Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship

• Linde + CAST Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship, Caltech CMS & CSIS (declined)

• National Scholarship, Tsinghua University