He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Arizona State University in 2014. He has a broad research interest in large-scale machine learning and data mining, and biomedical informatics. He served as technical program committee members of premier conferences such as NIPS, ICML, and SIGKDD. Jiayu’s research is supported by National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research. He is a recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2018). His papers received the Best Student Paper Award in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), the Best Student Paper Award at 2016 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), and Best Paper Award at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData).