Hanghang Tong is an associate professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since August 2019, Before that, he was an associate professor at Arizona State University, an assistant professor at City College, City University of New York, a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in machine learning, from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 and 2009. His research interest is in large-scale data mining for graphs and multimedia. He received several awards, including NSF CAREER award (2017), ICDM 10-Year Highest Impact Paper Award (2015), four best paper awards (TUP'14, CIKM'12, SDM'08, ICDM'06), six `bests of conference' (ICDM'18, KDD'16, SDM'15, ICDM'15, SDM'11 and ICDM'10), one best demo, honorable mention (SIGMOD'17), and one best demo candidate, second place (CIKM'17). He has published over 100 referred articles. He is the editor-in-chief of SIGKDD Explorations (ACM), an action editor of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Springer), and an associate editor of Neurocomputing Journal (Elsevier); He has served as a program committee member in multiple data-mining, database, and artificial intelligence venues (including SIGKDD, SIGMOD, AAAI, WWW and CIKM).
