Jiliang Tang

Jiliang Tang is a Chinese-born computer scientist and associate professor at Michigan State University in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, where he is the director of the Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Lab. His research expertise is in data mining and machine learning.

Jiliang Tang
Alma materArizona State University (PhD)
AwardsNSF Career Award (2019)
ACM SIGKDD Rising Star Award (2020)
Scientific career
InstitutionsMichigan State University
ThesisComputing Distrust in Social Media (2015)
Doctoral advisorHuan Liu
Websitewww.cse.msu.edu/~tangjili/

Education and career

He received his BEng in software engineering (2008) and MSc in computer science (2010) from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His PhD is from Arizona State University (2015), under the direction of Huan Liu. After gaining his PhD, he worked as a research scientist at Yahoo Labs (2015–16) before joining Michigan State University as an assistant professor (2016).[1] His research has mostly been published jointly with Huan Liu. It has received over thirteen thousand citations documented by Google Scholar,[2] and has received coverage in the media.[3][4]

Awards

He has received the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Rising Star Award that "aims to celebrate the early accomplishments of the SIGKDD communities' brightest new minds",[5] NSF Career Award,[6] and Michigan State University's Distinguished Withrow Research Award.[7]

Selected publications

Books
  • Jiliang Tang, Huan Liu. Trust in Social Media, (Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science; Synthesis lectures on information security, privacy, and trust, # 13) Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2015 ISBN 9781627054058

Peer reviewed journal articles
  • Shu K, Sliva A, Wang S, Tang J, Liu H. Fake news detection on social media: A data mining perspective. ACM SIGKDD explorations newsletter. 2017 Sep 1;19(1):22-36. open access (Cited 1524 times, according to Google Scholar [2])
  • Tang J, Alelyani S, Liu H. Feature selection for classification: A review. Data classification: Algorithms and applications. 2014:37. (Cited 1112 times, according to Google Scholar [2])
  • Li J, Cheng K, Wang S, Morstatter F, Trevino RP, Tang J, Liu H. Feature selection: A data perspective. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 2017 Dec 6;50(6):1-45. (Cited 1250 times, according to Google Scholar.[2])
  • Chang S, Han W, Tang J, Qi GJ, Aggarwal CC, Huang TS. Heterogeneous network embedding via deep architectures. InProceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining 2015 Aug 10 (pp. 119–128) (Cited 531 times, according to Google Scholar.[2])
  • Gao H, Tang J, Hu X, Liu H. Exploring temporal effects for location recommendation on location-based social networks. InProceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems 2013 Oct 12 (pp. 93–100). (Cited 512 times, according to Google Scholar.[2])
  • Hu X, Tang J, Gao H, Liu H. Unsupervised sentiment analysis with emotional signals. InProceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web 2013 May 13 (pp. 607–618). (Cited 417 times, according to Google Scholar.[2])

References
  1. Jiliang Tang (PDF), Michigan State University, retrieved December 22, 2020
  2. Jiliang Tang publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. "5 Machine Learning Projects You Can No Longer Overlook".
  4. "It's possible to reverse-engineer AI chatbots to spout nonsense, smut or sensitive information".
  5. "ACM SIGKDD Rising Star Award".
  6. "NSF Award Abstract #1845081".
  7. "Michigan State Universities 2020 Withrow Scholars".
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