(cr. my high school friend Chi Zhang)
Jian Kang
Email: jiank2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
I am a final-year PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a member of IDEA Lab led by Dr. Hanghang Tong. My research interests mainly lie in large-scale data mining and machine learning on graphs, with a special focus on understanding their trustworthiness. Prior to joining UIUC, I obtained my MCS degree in Computer Science at University of Virginia and BEng degree in Telecommunications Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
I'm on job market for faculty position this year. Please feel free to reach out if you have potential job opportunities.
Education
- PhD candidate (Computer Science), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Aug. 2019 - present
- PhD student (Computer Science), Arizona State University. Aug. 2017 - May 2019
- MCS (Computer Science), University of Virginia. Aug. 2015 - Dec. 2016
- BEng (Communications Engineering), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2014
Experience
- Research Intern, Meta AI. May 2022 - Aug. 2022
- Research Intern, Facebook AI. May 2021 - Aug. 2021
Awards and Honors
- Rising Stars in Data Mining and Management, Frontiers in Big Data, 2022
- Rising Stars in Data Science, The University of Chicago, 2022 [Link]
- Mavis Future Faculty Fellow, UIUC, 2022 [Link]
- Research Platinum Award, IDEA-iSAIL Labs at UIUC, 2022
- CIKM 2021 Best Reviewers Award [Link]
- University Nomination for 2022 Apple Scholars in AI/ML, 2021
- Top 3 nominees at UIUC - ICLR 2021 Outstanding Reviewer, 2021 [Link]
- ICML 2020 Top Reviewer, 2020 [Link]
- KDD 2020 Student Travel Award, 2020
- CIKM 2019 Student Travel Award, 2019
- Big Data 2018 Student Travel Award, 2018