Dr. Jian Tang
Assistant Professor HEC Montreal and Faculty Member at Mila

 Dr. Jian Tang is an assistant professor at HEC Montreal and also a core faculty member at Mila since December, 2017. He is named to the first cohort of Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chairs (CIFAR AI Research Chair). His research interests focus on deep graph representation learning with a variety of applications including natural language understanding, knowledge graphs, drug discovery and recommender systems. He was a research fellow in University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D degree from Peking University and was a visiting student in University of Michigan for two years. He was a researcher in Microsoft Research Asia for two years. He received the best paper award of ICML’14 and nominated for the best paper of WWW’16.