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He named IEEE Senior Member

Jingrui He
Jingrui He, Professor and MSIM Program Director

Associate Professor Jingrui He was recently named a Senior Member of IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The organization is the world's largest technical professional society and serves professionals involved in all aspects of the electrical, electronic, and computing fields and related areas of science and technology.

He, who has been a member of IEEE since 2010,  has served on a number of organizing/program committees for IEEE conferences, including the International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) and International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). IEEE Senior Members are eligible to hold executive IEEE volunteer positions, serve as a reference for other applicants for Senior Membership, and participate on the panel to review Senior Member applications.

He's research focuses on heterogeneous machine learning, rare category analysis, active learning and semi-supervised learning, with applications in social network analysis, healthcare, and manufacturing processes. Prior to joining the iSchool, He worked as a faculty member at Arizona State University and Stevens Institute of Technology and as a research staff member at IBM. Her honors include an NSF CAREER Award, IJCAI Early Career Spotlight, and three IBM faculty awards. She is the author of Analysis of Rare Categories (Springer, 2012) and Social Media Analytics for User Behavior Modeling: A Task Heterogeneity Perspective (CRC Press, 2020). She earned her PhD and MS in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University and MEng and BEng in automation from Tsinghua University.

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