Jundong Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science, and School of Data Science.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Arizona State University in 2019, M.Sc. degree in Computer Science at University of Alberta in 2014, and B.Eng. degree in Software Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2012. His research interests are generally in data mining and machine learning, with a particular focus on graph mining, causal inference, and algorithmic fairness. As a result of his research work, he has published over 100 papers in high-impact venues (including KDD, WWW, IJCAI, AAAI, WSDM, EMNLP, CIKM, ICDM, SDM, ECML-PKDD, CSUR, TPAMI, TKDE, TKDD, TIST, etc), with over 5,500 citation count.
He has won several prestigious awards, including SIGKDD 2022 Best Research Paper Award, NSF CAREER Award, JP Morgan Chase Faculty Research Award, Cisco Faculty Research Award, and being selected for the AAAI New Faculty Highlights roster. His group’s research is generously supported by NSF (CAREER, III, SaTC, SAI), JLab, JP Morgan, and Cisco.