Bio

Dr. Jiang is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the University of Notre Dame. He obtained his bachelor degree and PhD from Tsinghua University. He spent two years in UIUC as a postdoc and joined ND in 2017. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. Specially, he is interested in Computational Behavior Modeling, information extraction, and text generation. He has published more than 50 conference papers in KDD (10), ICDM, CIKM, AAAI, ACL, and EMNLP, and 20 journal papers in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (7), Knowledge and Information Systems, and IEEE Intelligent Systems. He is the Principle Investigator for five grants including two from National Science Foundation. He is the recipient of Notre Dame International Faculty Research Award. His work was selected as a best paper finalist in KDD'14, and a recent work won the best paper award in KDD-DLG'20 workshop.

Awards

• Best Paper Award at KDD-DLG, 2020
• Best Paper Award at ISDSA, 2020
• ACM WSDM Conference Outstanding PC, 2020
• ND Global Gateway Faculty Research Award, 2019
• The 3rd place in WSDM CUP Competition, 2017
• KDD 2016 Top 20 Rising Stars, Bing Academic Search of Microsoft Research Asia, 2016
• Tutorial Honorarium, ACM CIKM, 2016
• Tutorial 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

Ph.D. Thesis Committee

• Dr. Maria Glenski, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Timothy Weninger)
• Dr. Yuan Gong, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Christian Poellabauer)
• Dr. Chao Huang, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla)
• Dr. Suhansanu Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: Prof. Hari Sundaram)
• Dr. Zhiyu Liu, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Hai Lin)
• Dr. Kenton Murray, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. David Chiang)
• Dr. Alizera Partovi, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Hai Lin)
• Dr. Munira Syed, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla)
• Dr. Pamela Bilo Thomas, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Timothy Weninger)
• Dr. Tianchen Wang, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Yiyu Shi)
• Dr. Xian Wu, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla)
• Dr. Chuxu Zhang, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla)
• Dr. Shenglong Zhu, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Profs. Danny Chen and Scott Emrich)
• Peixian Liang, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Danny Chen)
• Guoqiang Liu, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Xin Lu)
• Kaitlynn Meis, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Michael Ferdig)
• Mandana Saebi, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Prof. Nitesh Chawla)
• Hao Zheng, University of Notre Dame (Advisor: Profs. Danny Chen and Chaoli Wang)

Professional Services

• TPC Member: KDD 2018-2021, WWW 2018-2021, ACL 2020-2021, EMNLP 2018-2020, AAAI 2017-2021, IJCAI 2019-2021, WSDM 2018-2021, CIKM 2017-2020, SDM 2018-2019, NeurIPS 2020, ACM MM 2017-2018, PAKDD 2017-2019, ASONAM 2019, GTA3 2018, SOcInf+MAISoN 2018, DSC 2016-2018, IEEE DSAA 2015
• Publication Chair: ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2019
• Publicity Chair: International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet) 2019
• 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
• Associate Editor: Big Data Networks (Frontiers in Big Data)
• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Access (Access), Artificial Intelligence Journal (AI Journal), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD, DAMI), Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ) Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (IJITDM), Information Sciences (INS), Information Systems (InfoSys), Information Processing and Management (IPM), 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), Scientific Reports (SciReports), 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), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ)

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.