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Zhe Jiang
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
University of Florida
Email: zhe.jiang(at)ufl.edu Phone: 352-294-6659 (Email preferred)
Office: Malachowsky Hall 6110 Mail: PO Box 116120, Gainesville, FL, 32611
Short Bio
Dr. Zhe Jiang is an associate professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Coastal Solutions. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 2016 and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on spatiotemporal data mining for interdisciplinary applications in Earth sciences (hydrology, natural disaster, coastal hazards), agriculture, transportation, health and medicine, etc. He received the Best Paper Award in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 and Best Paper Runner-Up Award in the Blue Sky Vision Track of SIAM Data Mining 2024. He has served as the Program Co-Chair for SDM 2024, Proceedings Co-chair for KDD 2023-2025, Publicity Co-Chair for SDM 2023 and ACMGIS 2022, and Student Travel Award Chair for ICDM 2022. He has served as a Senior Program Committee member (or Area Chair) for AAAI, ICDM, ICML, ACM SIGSPATIAL, SDM, and PAKDD. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.
Research Interests
Data mining, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, spatiotemporal data mining, interdisciplinary applications in Earth science, transportation, public health, etc.
Open Positions
Our lab is ALWAYS looking for outstanding Ph.D. students. We also welcome remote interns. Please click this link.
About Pre-requisite of CAP 5771 in Fall 2025
If you have questions about registering for CAP 5771 Data Science in Fall 2025, please email to Ms. Adrienne Cook (alcook@ufl.edu). She will be able to help with that. If the class is full, the priority will be given to those who already have pre-requisites.
News
- [PC]8/17/2024: Dr. Jiang was invited to serve on the Senior Program Committee of AAAI 2025 and ICDM 2024.
- [Paper]4/29/2024: One paper is accepted in IJCAI 2024, one paper accepted in ICDE 2024, and one journal paper is accepted in EEE Transactions on Big Data, Special Issue on
Stream Data Learning and its Applications.
- [Award]4/29/2024: Dr. Jiang becomes a senior member of ACM.
- [Award]4/21/2024: Our paper received the Best Paper Runner-Up Award of the Blue Sky Track at SIAM Data Mining 2024! Congratulations!
- [PC]1/27/2024: Dr. Jiang was invited to serve as the Senior PC Member for PAKDD 2024, Area Chair for ICML 2024, PC Vice Co-Chair for Big Data Learning and Analytics Track, IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2024.
- [Paper]12/28/2023: Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2024 and one Vision paper is accepted by SIAM Data Mining 2024 Blue Sky Vision Track!
- [Award]12/15/2023: Our paper received the best paper award at the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 conference! Congratulations to all co-authors! This is the UF CISE department news.
- [Award]11/3/2023: Our SIGSPATIAL 2023 paper is selected as one of the candidates for best paper award. Congratulations!
- [Paper]10/29/2023: One paper is being accepted by NeurIPS 2023, one paper is accepted by ACM SIGSPATIAL, and another vision paper accepted by IEEE Big Data. One paper accepted by NeurIPS AI for Science Workshop. Two interdiscipinary journal paper were accepted, one in Social Work in Public Health and another in Journal of Nematology. Congratulations to students and collaborators!
- [Conference]4/30/2023: Dr. Jiang was invited to serve as the program co-chair for SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Houston, TX, USA, 2024.
- [Paper]12/29/2022: Two Papers are accepted in SIAM Data Mining 2023, and one journal paper is accepted in TKDE.
- [Conference]12/20/2022: Dr. Jiang was invited to serve as the Proceeding Co-Chair of ACM SIGKDD 2023!
- [Paper] 8/27/2022: One paper on Explainer for temporal GNN was accepted in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2022, three papers were accepted in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 (one research paper, one system paper, and one demo paper), and one journal paper was accepted by the Journal of Social Work in Public Health, Taylor & Francis.
- [Workshop] 8/6/2022: Dr. Jiang serves a general co-chair for the 3rd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Applications, and Systems. The workshop invites keynote speakers from George Mason University and Stanford University as well as panelists from NSF, UMBC, Army Lab, and IARPA. You are welcome to attend our workshop on the afternoon of August 15 at KDD 2022! See detailed program at website.
- [Workshop] 8/6/2022: Dr. Jiang was invited to give a keynote talk at the ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on AI for climate mitigation, adaptation, and environmental justice (FragileEarth'22), Washington DC.
- [Conference] 8/6/2022: Dr. Jiang was invited to serve as the publicity co-chair and Senior PC Member for SDM 2023 to be held in Minneapolis, MN. See our call for paper. He was also invited to serve as the Travel Award Chair for IEEE ICDM 2022 and as the Program Committee members for AAAI 2023, NeurIPS 2022, ICLR 2023, ICDM 2022, SIGSPATIAL 2022.
- [Workshop]5/19/2022: Dr. Jiang is co-organizing a NSF workshop titled "The Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Methods and Solutions to Urban Transportation Challenges" to be held in person at Seattle, Washington on June 4-5. The workshop invites leading experts in the field of AI for Transportation. For registration, please visit the website.
- [Paper] 5/19/2022: One paper is accepted as a full paper in the research track of ACM SIGKDD 2022 conference, Washington DC. Congratulations to our Ph.D. student!
- [Paper] 4/19/2022: Two conference papers are accepted by IEEE ICDE 2022. Two conference papers are published in AAAI 2022. Two journal papers are published in ACM TIST Special Issue on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal data.
- [Honor] 11/30/2021: Dr. Zhe Jiang became a senior member of IEEE.
"Life isn't about how you survive the storm, but how you dance in the rain!"