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 was accepted to EMNLP 2025 Findings.
  • 08/2025: One paper was accepted to CIKM 2025.
  • 07/2025: Received NSF CAREER Award.
  • 06/2025: One paper was accepted to ICCV 2025.
  • 05/2025: One paper was accepted to the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
  • 01/2025: One paper was accepted to AI Magazine.
  • 01/2025: One paper was accepted to 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 was accepted to PETS 2025.
  • 10/2024: One student abstract was accepted to AAAI 2025.
  • 09/2024: Received the Departmental Excellence Award.
  • 05/2024: One paper was accepted to 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 was accepted to KDD 2024.
  • 05/2024: Four papers were accepted to ICML 2024.
  • 12/2023: One paper was accepted to SDM 2024.
  • 12/2023: Three papers and one student abstract were accepted to 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 was accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
  • 05/2023: One paper was accepted to KDD 2023.
  • 04/2023: One paper was accepted to USENIX Security 2023.
  • 01/2023: One paper was accepted to The Web Conference 2023.
  • 12/2022: One paper was accepted to SDM 2023.
  • 11/2022: Two papers were accepted to AAAI 2023.
  • 10/2022: Two papers were accepted to 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