Jian Tang
Associate Professor
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Tang is an Associate Professor at Mila–Quebec AI Institute with 11 years of experience at the intersection of deep learning and applied AI, currently focusing on deep learning for drug discovery. Trained with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Peking University and a mathematics background from Beijing Normal University, he blends rigorous theory with practical research cultivated during roles at Microsoft Research Asia and as a visiting student at the University of Michigan. At Mila he advanced from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, contributing to one of the world’s largest academic AI labs founded by Yoshua Bengio. His work spans deep learning, statistical modeling, and information retrieval, and he brings industry-grade research experience to biomedical AI challenges. Colleagues note his ability to translate complex models into domain-impacting applications, particularly in accelerating early-stage drug discovery workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Mathematics, Bachelor Mathematics at Beijing Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Peking University
Github Skills (22)
graph10
graph-embedding10
scale10
embedding10
large-scale9
machine-learning9
jekyll9
chainer7
julia5
mutation5
deep-learning5
python5
javascript5
portable5
data-science4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tangjianpku/tangjianpku.github.io
Apr 2018 - Jun 2022
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:226 commits, 213 pushes in 4 years 2 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
tangjianpku/LINE
Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
LINE: Large-scale information network embedding
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 49 pushes in 4 years 8 months
network-embeddingnetwork-informationmachine-learningscalelarge-scale
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