Speaker: Professor Hanghang Tong, City College, CUNY
Bio: Hanghang Tong is currently an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the City College, City University of New York. Before that, he was a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and a Post-Doctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon University. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 and 2009, both majored in Machine Learning. His research interest is in large scale data mining for graphs and multimedia. He has received several awards, including best paper award in CIKM 2012, best paper award in SDM 2008, and best research paper award in ICDM 2006. He has published over 70 referred articles and more than 20 patents. He has served as a program committee member in top data mining, databases, and artificial intelligence venues (e.g., SIGKDD, SIGMOD, AAAI, WWW, CIKM, etc.).
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