Faculty

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Qingyao Ai

Assistant Professor
Email: aiqy@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Carlo V. Cannistraci

Professor
Email: kailong@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Information theory, Machine intelligence, Network science, Socio-economic systems, Complex big data in neuro and life sciences.

Kang Chen

Professor
Email: kang.chen.tsinghua@gmail.com

Area of Research Interests:
Storage Systems, Distributed Systems

Jianfei Chen

Associate Professor
Email: jianfeic@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Deep Learning

Ting Chen

Professor
Email: tingchen@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Medical Informatics and Precision Medicine, Algorithm Design

Wenguang Chen

Professor
Email: cwg@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Parallel Computing, Compiler, Mobile Computing

Yu Chen

Associate Professor
Email: yuchen@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Operating Systems for Data Center, Compiling for Deep Learning, System Optimization for AI

Yong Cui

Professor
Email: cuiyong@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Network Architecture, Next Generation Internet

Zhidong Deng

Professor
Email: michael@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence, Self-driving Car, Computational Intelligence & Robotics

Yuxiao Dong

Assistant Professor
Email: yuxiaod@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Data Mining, Graph Machine Learning, Pre-Training Models, Social Networks

Ling Feng

Professor
Email: fengling@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Context-Aware Data Management towards Ambient Intelligence, Data Mining and Warehousing, Distributed Object-Oriented Database Management Systems

Xiaolin Hu

Associate Professor
Email: xlhu@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Computer Vision, computational neuroscience, deep learning


Minlie Huang

Professor
Email: aihuang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Machine learning applications, deep learning, natural language processing

Zhengfeng Ji

Professor
Email: jizhengfeng@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Quantum computing, Theory of computation

Dan Li

Professor
Email: tolidan@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Internet Architecture, P2P Networks, Cloud Computing Networks, Green Networking, Internet of Things

Guoliang Li

Professor
Email: liguoliang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
AI+DB, use AI techniques to optimize database and use DB techniques to make AI scalable; hybrid crowd machine computing; big data cleaning, integration and visualization

Juanzi Li

Professor
Email: lijuanzi@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Knowledge Graphs, Text Mining, Semantic Web

Zhaolin Li

Professor
Email: lzl73@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Computer System Architecture, Crowd Core Processors, Intelligent Processors, Parallel Programming and Compilation Optimization

Huaping Liu

Professor
Email: hpliu@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Robot Intelligent Control, Visual Object Tracking

Yang Liu

Professor
Email: liuyang2011@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
natural language processing, Machine Translation

Yiqun Liu

Professor
Email: yiqunliu@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Web Information Retrieval, User Behavior Analysis, Natural Language Processing

Yongjin Liu

Professor
Email: liuyongjin@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Computer Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, Multi-Disciplinary Research on Visual Media

Zhiyuan Liu

Associate Professor
Email: liuzy@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Social Computation, Knowledge Graphs, natural language processing

Youyou Lu

Associate Professor
Email: luyouyou@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Distributed Systems, Storage System, Computer Architecture

Weiying Ma

Professor
Email: maweiying@air.tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence (machine learning, natural language processing, search and recommender system, big data mining); and health computing which explores the application of artificial intelligence in life sciences, biomedical, pharmaceutics, genetic engineering, and precision medicine.

Zaiqing Nie

Professor
Email: zaiqing@air.tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Big Data, Data Mining, NLP and Multimodal Machine Learning

Dan Pei

Associate Professor
Email: peidan@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Data Mining, Autonomous IT Operations, AIOps (Applied Machine Learning for IT Operations)

Ju Ren

Associate Professor
Email: renju@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Internet of Things, Network Computing, Edge Intelligence, Operating Systems

Yuanchun Shi

Professor
Email: shiyc@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Human Computer Interaction, Pervasive computing, Network Multimedia

Fuchun Sun

Professor
Email: fcsun@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Active Sensing and Dexterious Operations, Cross Modal Learning

Lifeng Sun

Professor
Email: sunlf@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Network Multimedia

Maosong Sun

Professor
Email: sms@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing

Jie Tang

Professor
Email: jietang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Social Networking Analysis, Data Mining, Machine Learning

Dongsheng Wang

Professor
Email: wds@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Computer Architecture, Neural Network Processors, Hardware Security and Big Data Processing

Yongwei Wu

Professor
Email: wuyw@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Parallel and Distributed Computing

Chunxiao Xing

Research Fellow
Email: xingcx@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Database and Data Warehouse, Big Data and Knowledge Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Blockchain Technology, Research on Key Technologies for Smart Healthcare, Smart Cities, Digital Libraries and E-Government

Bin Xu

Research Fellow
Email: xubin@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Computer Vision, computational neuroscience, deep learning

Hua Xu

Associate Professor
Email: xuhua@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Multi-objective Optimization based on Evolutionary Computation

Ke Xu

Professor
Email: xuke@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
New Generation Network Architecture, Network Routing, High Performance Routers, P2P and Overlay Network, Internet of Things(IoT), Network virtualization and optimization

Kun Xu

Associate Professor
Email: xukun@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
real-time rendering, image/video editing, 3D scene synthesis

Mingwei Xu

Professor
Email: xumw@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Computer Network, Cybersecurity

Chun Yu

Associate Professor
Email: chunyu@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Human-computer interaction, pervasive computing

Wenjian Yu

Professor
Email: yu-wj@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Machine Learning, Numerical algorithm, EDA algorithm and software

Jidong Zhai

Professor
Email: zhaijidong@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
High performance computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computer System Software

Songhai Zhang

Associate Professor
Email: shz@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Computer graphics, media computing, Image/Video analysis and processing

Min Zhang

Professor
Email: z-m@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Information Retrieval, User Behavior Analysis, Machine Learning

Mingxing Zhang

Assistant Professor
Email: zhang_mingxing@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
distributed systems and new hardware technologies

Fang Zheng

Research Fellow
Email: fzheng@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Speaker Recognition, Speech Recognition

Ying Zhao

Associate Professor
Email: yingz@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Autonomic Computing

Jun Zhu

Professor
Email: dcszj@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Machine Learning

Yaqin Zhang

Professor
Email: zhangyaqin@air.tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Driving, Cloud Computig

Yong Zhang

Associate Professor
Email: zhangyong05@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
- Database: Column Storage; Row-column Mixed Storage; Key-Value Store; DaaS (Database as a Service); History Database - Digital Library/Massive Data Management: Durable Top-k Query; Similarity Calculation; Collaborative Filtering; Micro-blog Recommendation; Tag-basd Resource and Document Recommendation; Hot Stock Block Discovery - GIS: Distributed Geography File System; Geograpy Encoding; Geography Data Indexing

Youhui Zhang

Professor
Email: zyh02@tsinghua.edu.cn

Area of Research Interests:
Micro-architecture, Cluster computing, and User-level Virtualization technologies