She was a visiting scientist at the University of Washington in the first half of 2016, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara (2015) and a B.S. in EEIS from the University of Science and Technology of China (2010). Her research interests lie in data mining and machine learning, with emphasis on question answering, text mining and understanding, network analysis, and human behavior understanding. Huan received the SIGKDD Ph.D. Dissertation Runner-Up Award (2016), the honor of being MIT EECS Rising Stars (2015), the UC Regents’ Special Fellowship (2010, 2014), and the CS Ph.D. Progress Award (2014)