(Photo by my wife Ming Hu)

Jian Kang

Email: $FIRSTNAME$ [dot] $LASTNAME$ [at] mbzuai [dot] ac [dot] ae (all lowercase)

I am affiliated with both Department of Statistics & Data Science and Department of Computer Science at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence). I am currently on leave from the University of Rochester. Prior to my faculty career, I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where I am lucky to be advised by Dr. Hanghang Tong.

Student recruitment: Please carefully check the following information before reaching out to me. Please note that, due to the large amount of emails, I may not be able to reply to them all.

• I am not recruiting new student at University of Rochester.
• At MBZUAI, I am looking for highly motivated students to work with me as intern or visiting student. If you are interested to work with me at MBZUAI, please send me an email with your CV and a brief introduction of yourself, e.g., your background, past experiences, research interests, and research proposal (optionally). Please use the title [$TERM$ $YEAR$] $YOURNAME$: $PURPOSE$ for your email (e.g., [Fall 2026] Jane Doe: PhD Application, [Fall 2026] John Doe: Intern Application).