Jian Kang
Assistant Professor at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Kang is an Assistant Professor affiliated with both the Departments of Statistics & Data Science and Computer Science at MBZUAI, currently on leave from the University of Rochester. He brings eight years of research and academic experience grounded in a PhD from UIUC and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, with internships at Meta/Facebook AI that signal strong industry-research ties. His work sits at the intersection of data science and systems, combining rigorous theory with practical machine learning and graph/data-driven methods. Based in Abu Dhabi, he maintains an active academic presence (see jiank2.github.io) and is building a cross-disciplinary lab focus that spans statistical modeling, scalable algorithms, and applied AI.
8 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at University of Virginia
Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
graph-embedding9
leaderboard8
gnn7
ranking7
gnn-model7
science6
react6
computer-science5
graph5
pytorch5
graph-convolutional-networks4
deep-learning3
lists3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jiank2/jiank2.github.io
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
jiank2/iDEA-iSAIL-Reading-Group
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:12 pushes in 11 months
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