Jiliang Tang

Jiliang Tang is an assistant professor in the computer science and engineering department at Michigan State University since Fall@2016. Before that, he was a research scientist in Yahoo Research and got his PhD from Arizona State University in 2015. He has broad interests in social computing, data mining and machine learning and is directing the Data Science and Engineering Lab . He was the recipients of the Best Student Paper Award in WSDM2018, the Best Paper Award in KDD2016, the runner up of the Best KDD Dissertation Award in 2015, Dean's Dissertation Award and the best paper shortlist of WSDM2013. He has published his research in highly ranked journals and top conference proceedings, which received thousands of citations (Google Scholar) and extensive media coverage (Links).

Email: tangjili at msu dot edu
Office: Engineering Building 2148
Mail: 428 S Shaw Ln Rm 3115, East Lansing, MI 48824

Research Interests

Feature Learning: Feature Selection and Extraction, Network Representation Learning, Deep Learning
Network Analysis: Signed Networks, Network Modeling and Measuring, Information Difussion
Trust, Privacy,and Security: Trust Computing, Data Privacy, Misinformation, Fake News and Urban Security
Computational Health: Mental Health, Weight Management, Virtual Doctor

News

08/2018: Won the best paper award from ASONAM 2018
08/2018: Received a grant from NSF SaTC to support our research about Side-channel Attacks Against Mobile Users
08/2018: 1 paper accepted by CIKM2018 and 1 paper accepted by ICDM2018
08/2018: Received a grant from Living PlantIT to support our streaming modeling research
07/2018: Received the Criteo Faculty Research Award
07/2018: Invited to serve as the Associate Editor of Neurocomputing
07/2018: 1 paper got accepted by RecSys2018
06/2018: papers got accepted by COLING2018 and ASONAM2018
05/2018: 1 paper got accepted by KDD2018
04/2018: "Crime in Urban Areas: A Data Mining Perspective" to appear in SIGKDD Explorations
03/2018: Invited to serve the vice program committee chair of IEEE BIGDATA 2018
02/2018: My student Hamid Karimi Won best oral presentation in 10th MSU Graduate Academic Conference
02/2018: My students Haochen and Xiangyu received a travel award to attend SDM2018 and participate in the Doctoral Forum
02/2018: Won the best student paper award from WSDM2018
01/2018: Gratefully receive a grant from MSU Business Center
01/2018: 1 paper is accepted by IEEE Access and 1 paper is accepted by ICC
12/2017: 2 papers are accepted by TKDE
12/2017: 2 papers are accepted by WWW2018
12/2017: Gratefully receive an award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to support our education research
12/2017: I am elected as the secretary of the SIAM activity group on data mining and analytics
11/2017: I am invited to give a keynote speech at HeteroNAM@WSDM2018
11/2017: A Survey on Dialogue Systems:Recent Advances and New Frontiers is to appear in SIGKDD Explorations
10/2017: 4 papers are accepted by WSDM2018
10/2017: I am invited to serve as the associate editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
10/2017: A survey about ``Fake News Detection on Social Media:A Data Mining Perspective" , KDNuggets Blog , Most Shared Last Week
10/2017: I will serve as the information director of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
09/2017: I will serve as the proceeding co-chair of KDD18
09/2017: 1 paper is accepted by ACM Computing Surveys
09/2017: 1 paper is accepted by SIGKDD Explorations
09/2017: My students Zhiwei and Xiangyu received travel awards to attend CIKM2017
08/2017: Gratefully receive a NSF grant (IIS-1714741) as the PI to support our research on unsupervised feature selection for big data
08/2017: I am invited to give a keynote speech in MLG@KDD
08/2017: Job Matching Program in KDD2017
08/2017: 4 papers are accepted by CIKM2017, especial congratulations to Zhiwei, Tyler and Xiangyu for their first papers with DSE@MSU
07/2017: WSDM18 calls for workshop proposals: More information
07/2017: Gratefully receive a NSF grant (IIS-1715940) as the PI to support our research on dynamic attributed networks
07/2017: 1 paper is accepted by TIST
07/2017: My students Tyler and Daniel received travel grants to attend KDD17
05/2017: 1 paper is accepted by KDD2017
05/2017: I am invited to attend the Adobe Data Science Symposium
05/2017: 1 paper titled ``Large-scale Location Prediction for Web Pages" is accepted by IEEE Trans on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
04/2017: 1 paper is acctepd by IJCAI2017
04/2017: 1 paper titled ``Facilitating Time Critical Information Seeking in Social Media" is accepted by IEEE Trans on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
04/2017: Our dimension reduction package is among 5 Machine Learning Projects You Can No Longer Overlook
04/2017: A tutorial "Recent Advances in Feature Selection: A Data Perspective" is accepted by KDD2017. It is based on our survey paper and the software scikit-feature
03/2017: My student Tyler Derr and I will give an invited lecture for the department of education about signed network analysis
03/2017: My student Tyler Derr received a NSF travel grant to attend SDM2017.
02/2017: Gratefully receive a NSF grant (IIS-1719275) as the PI to support students to attend SDM17
02/2017: Gratefully receive two grants from CBSA to support our misinformation research
12/2016: The online home of Data Science and Engineering Lab at MSU! If you want to know recent research and openings from DSE Lab, please visit our home
12/2016: 4 papers are accepted by SDM2017
11/2016: Gratefully receive a grant from TRIFECTA
10/2016: 3 papers are accepted by WWW2017
Our survey paper "User Identity Linkage across Online Social Netwroks: A Review" is to appear in SIGKDD Explorations
2 papers are accepted by AAAI2017
I will serve as the job matching chair of KDD2017
1 paper titled "Delving Deep into Personal Photo and Video Search" is accepted by WSDM2017
Kenote Speeches in 2016: AAAI WIT-EC 2016 , Big Network Analytics Workshop
Our article about research trends in social media " The good, the bad, and the ugly: uncovering novel research opportunities in social media mining "
Depature from Yahoo! Inc and join the CSE department of Michigan State University as an assistant professor
Won the best paper award in the applied data science track from KDD2016
I will serve as the sponsorship chair of SDM2017 and the workshop co-chair of WSDM2018
A Survey of Signed Network Mining in Social Media is accepted by ACM Computing Suverys
News coverage of our paper on "Predicting Online Protest Participation of Social Media Users" -- Defenceone.com , mic.com , timeofindia , inverse.com , usinessinsider.in , newindianexpress.com , business-standard.com , freepressjournal.in , bgr.in , nextgov.com , newsgram.com , newkerala.com
scikit-feature, an open-source feature selection repository in Python, -- News Blog , kdNuggets
I serve as the post chair of KDD2016. KDD Call for Papers
Our Book " Trust in Social Media '' is online available