Zhe Jiang
Associate Professor
Department of Computer & Information Science & 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 (e.g., floods, storm surges), agriculture, transportation, health and medicine. 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 2023-2026, 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
Artificial intelligence and its interdisciplinary applications in Earth sciences and health/medicine.
Open Positions
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News
[Paper] 1/6/2026: Our paper, titled "A Survey on Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Deep Learning" has been accepted in ACM Computing Survey! Links: arxiv, ACM Open Access.[Paper] 8/14/2025: Two papers are accepted in ACM SIGSPATAIL 2025. One paper is accepted in Transactions on Machine Learning Research. Earlier, two papers were accepted in AAAI 2025 and one paper was accepted in ICML 2025. Congratulations![SPC] 2/1/2025: Dr. Jiang was invited to serve as an Area Chair for AAAI 2026 and KDD 2026, a proceedings co-chair for ACM SIGKDD 2025 - 2026 and SIGSPATIAL 2025.[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.
"Life isn't about how you survive the storm, but how you dance in the rain!"