Prior to joining the University of Virginia, Dr. Gu was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research focuses on Machine Learning, Data Mining and Optimization. He has published more than 30 papers in premium venues of machine learning and data mining, including NIPS, ICML, KDD, AISTATS and UAI. He is on the editorial board of Information Processing and Management.