Bio
I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. My research focuses on data-driven user behavior modeling for applications such as future behavior prediction, social recommendation, fraud detection, event summarization, mission planning, and effective teaching. It is at the intersection of social media analysis, network science, text mining, information extraction, spatiotemporal data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
I was a postdoctoral researcher of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. Jiawei Han. I joined the Data Mining Research Group in August 2015. I completed my Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, Beijing under the supervision of Prof. Shiqiang Yang in 2015. I did my bachelor degree at the same department in 2010.
I visited the Database Group in School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University under supervision of Prof. Christos Faloutsos from August 2012 to May 2013 (9 months). I visited Prof. VS Subrahmanian in University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, College Park in Summer 2016.
Ph.D. Committee Member
- Maria Glenski, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Timothy Weninger)
- Kaitlynn Meis, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Michael Ferdig)
- Chao Huang, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla)
- Kenton Murray, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. David Chiang)
- Shenglong Zhu, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Profs. Danny Chen and Scott Emrich)
- Yuan Gong, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Christian Poellabauer)
- Chuxu Zhang, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla)
Awards
- The 3rd place in WSDM CUP Competition, 2017
- KDD 2016 Top 20 Rising Stars, Bing Academic Search of Microsoft Research Asia, 2016
- Tutorial $360 Honorarium, ACM CIKM, 2016
- Tutorial $700 Honorarium, IEEE ICDM, 2015
- Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, Tsinghua University, 2015
- Excellent Graduate of Beijing City with Ph.D. degree, 2015
- ACM SIGKDD 2014 Best Paper Finalist, 2014
- ACM SIGKDD 2014 Student Travel Award, 2014
- PAKDD 2014 Student Travel Award, 2014
- National Scholarship, China, 2014
- Award of Excellence in Microsoft Research Asia Internship Program, 2014
- Sohu Research Scholarship, 2013
- Excellent Undergraduate of Tsinghua University, 2010
- Excellent Thesis of Undergraduate Students, Tsinghua University, 2010
- Tsinghua-Toyota Scholarship, 2008
Professional Services
- TPC Member: KDD 2018, WWW 2018, AAAI 2017-2018, WSDM 2018-2019, CIKM 2017-2018, SDM 2018, ACM MM 2017-2018, PAKDD 2017-2018, GTA3 2018, SOcInf+MAISoN 2018, DSC 2016-2018, IEEE DSAA 2015
- Special Session Chair: Special Session on Big Behavioral Data Analytics (BBDA) in IEEE DSAA 2016
- Workshop Organizer: Workshop on MIS2: Misinformation and Misbehavior Mining on the Web at WSDM 2018
- Journal Reviewer: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD, DAMI), Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), Information Sciences (INS), IEEE Intelligent Systems (IS), Journal of Computers (JCP), Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), INFORMS Journal on Computing (JOC), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Neurocomputing (NEUCOM), Pattern Recognition (PR), Trans. on Big Data (TBD), Trans. on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Trans. on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS), Trans. on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Trans. on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Trans. on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ)
- Conference Reviewer: NIPS 2016, ECML-PKDD 2016, EDBT 2016, AAAI 2016, KDD 2015, IJCAI 2015, AAAI 2015, WSDM 2015, ICDM 2014, CIKM 2014, KDD 2014, Globecom 2014
- Volunteer: KDD 2014
Misc
- A popular blog article: "KDD 2014: Unprecedented in History" (in Mandarin), at MSRA official site and MSRA Sina Blog (Read 10,000+).
- A collaborated acticle on CCCF: "The 20th Anniversary of SIGKDD" (in Mandarin), by J. Tang, Y. Dong, M. Jiang, Z. Fang, No. 10, Volume 10, on Communications of China Computer Federation, October 2014.