Short Bio

Hanghang Tong is currently a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Before that, he was a Post-doctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon University. He received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 and 2010, both majored in Machine Learning. His research interest is in large scale data mining for graphs and multimedia. He was a co-PI in NSF sponsored project on virus and influence propagation on large graphs. He is currently a co-PI in DARPA sponsored project on anomaly detection as multi-scales (ADAMS), and an IBM PI in the Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) sponsored by Army Research Lab. His current task focuses on composite networks in organization and team performance. He has received several awards, including best research paper in ICDM 2006 and best paper award in SDM 2008. He has published over 40 referred articles and served as a program committee of SIGKDD, PKDD, and WWW.