Brief Bio


I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, where I was supervised by Prof. Aidong Zhang. My research interests are in the general areas of machine learning and data mining, with a current focus on developing novel techniques to build trustworthy learning systems that are explainable, robust, private, and fair.


Contact


Office: 109 Atanasoff Hall, Ames, IA 50011

E-mail: mdhuai AT iastate DOT edu

For Prospective Students: I am looking for prospective Ph.D students and research interns. If you are interested in working with me, feel free to send me your CV. Graduate admission information can be found here.

News


  • 08/2025: One paper is accepted by CIKM 2025.
  • 07/2025: Received NSF CAREER Award.
  • 06/2025: One paper is accepted by ICCV 2025.
  • 05/2025: One paper is accepted by the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
  • 01/2025: One paper is accepted by AI Magazine.
  • 01/2025: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
  • 12/2024: Congratulations to my student Wei on receiving the Research Excellence Award from ISU.
  • 11/2024: One paper is accepted by PETS 2025.
  • 10/2024: One student abstract is accepted by AAAI 2025.
  • 09/2024: Received the Departmental Excellence Award.
  • 05/2024: One paper is accepted by MICCAI 2024.
  • 05/2024: Received an NSF grant to support our research on security and privacy in machine unlearning.
  • 05/2024: Invited to give a talk at the Midwest ML Symposium.
  • 05/2024: One paper is accepted by KDD 2024.
  • 05/2024: Four papers are accepted by ICML 2024.
  • 12/2023: One paper is accepted by SDM 2024.
  • 12/2023: Three papers and one student abstract are accepted by AAAI 2024.
  • 12/2023: Selected for the AAAI 2024 New Faculty Highlights Program.
  • 10/2023: Congratulations to my student Chenxu on receiving the Dr. Robert Stewart Early Research Recognition Award.
  • 09/2023: One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
  • 05/2023: One paper is accepted by KDD 2023.
  • 04/2023: One paper is accepted by USENIX Security 2023.
  • 01/2023: One paper is accepted by The Web Conference 2023.
  • 12/2022: One paper is accepted by SDM 2023.
  • 11/2022: Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2023.
  • 10/2022: Two papers are accepted by BIBM 2022.

Selected Awards


  • NSF CAREER Award, 2025
  • AAAI New Faculty Highlights, 2024
  • The Departmental Excellence Award (ISU), 2024
  • The Rising Star in EECS at MIT, 2021
  • The Rising Star in Data Science at UChicago, 2021
  • John A. Stankovic Research Award (UVA), 2021
  • Sture G. Olsson Fellowship in Engineering (UVA), 2020
  • Best Paper Runner-Up, KDD, 2020
  • Best Paper Award Nominee, MobiHoc, 2018