Jiliang Tang

Jiliang Tang is a research scientist at Yahoo Labs. He received his Ph.D. in computer science at Arizona State University in 2014, and B.S./M.S. from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2008 and 2010, respectively. His research interests include trust/distrust computing, feature selection, social computing, data mining, and machine learning. He was awarded the Runner Up of SIGKDD Dissertation Award 2015, Dean’s Dissertation Award 2015, Outstanding Graduating Computer Science Ph.D. Student 2015, the 2014 ASU President’s Award for Innovation, Best Paper Shortlist in WSDM13, the 3rd Place Dedicated Task 2 Next Location Prediction of Nokia Mobile Data Challenge 2012, University Graduate Fellowship, and various Student Travel Awards and Scholarships. He co-presented three tutorials in KDD2014, WWW2014, and Recsys2014, and has published innovative works in highly ranked journals and top conference proceedings such as ACM Computing Survey, IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD, DMKD, ACM SIGKDD, SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, SDM, ICDM, IJCAI, AAAI, and CIKM.