2026 Jiliang Tang: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	86	758	733	404	390	321	36532

Overview

Jiliang Tang is a researcher affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States, specializing in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, molecular biology, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Their primary research topics include advanced graph neural networks, topic modeling, recommender systems and techniques, natural language processing techniques, adversarial robustness in machine learning, anomaly detection techniques and applications, and complex network analysis techniques.

Jiliang Tang's recent publications include:

"Opening the Black Box: Interpretable Machine Learning for Geneticists" (2020) published in Trends in Genetics
"Recommender Systems in the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs)" (2024) published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
"A Graph Neural Network Framework for Social Recommendations" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
"Trustworthy AI: A Computational Perspective" (2022) published in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
"Adversarial Attacks and Defenses on Graphs" (2021) published in ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter

They have frequently published in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Jiliang Tang's frequent coauthors include Yao Ma, Wei Jin, Xiaorui Liu, Zitao Liu, and Wenqi Fan.

They have contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press called Deep Learning on Graphs (2021).

Best Publications

Fake News Detection on Social Media: A Data Mining Perspective

Kai Shu;Amy Sliva;Suhang Wang;Jiliang Tang

3618
Citations
Feature Selection: A Data Perspective

Jundong Li;Kewei Cheng;Suhang Wang;Fred Morstatter

3340
Citations
Graph Neural Networks for Social Recommendation

Wenqi Fan;Yao Ma;Qing Li;Yuan He

1816
Citations
Feature selection for classification: A review

Jiliang Tang;Salem Alelyani;Huan Liu

1397
Citations
Feature Selection

Unknown

1329
Citations
A Survey on Dialogue Systems: Recent Advances and New Frontiers

Hongshen Chen;Xiaorui Liu;Dawei Yin;Jiliang Tang

740
Citations
Heterogeneous Network Embedding via Deep Architectures

Shiyu Chang;Wei Han;Jiliang Tang;Guo-Jun Qi

655
Citations
Social recommendation: a review

Jiliang Tang;Xia Hu;Huan Liu

609
Citations
Graph Structure Learning for Robust Graph Neural Networks

Wei Jin;Yao Ma;Xiaorui Liu;Xianfeng Tang

600
Citations
Exploring temporal effects for location recommendation on location-based social networks

Huiji Gao;Jiliang Tang;Xia Hu;Huan Liu

600
Citations
Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Images, Graphs and Text: A Review

Han Xu;Yao Ma;Hao-Chen Liu;Debayan Deb

585
Citations
Traffic Flow Prediction via Spatial Temporal Graph Neural Network

Xiaoyang Wang;Yao Ma;Yiqi Wang;Wei Jin

526
Citations
Unsupervised sentiment analysis with emotional signals

Xia Hu;Jiliang Tang;Huiji Gao;Huan Liu

497
Citations
Exploiting social relations for sentiment analysis in microblogging

Xia Hu;Lei Tang;Jiliang Tang;Huan Liu

451
Citations
XGNN: Towards Model-Level Explanations of Graph Neural Networks

Hao Yuan;Jiliang Tang;Xia Hu;Shuiwang Ji

429
Citations
Feature Selection for Clustering: A Review

Salem Alelyani;Jiliang Tang;Huan Liu

423
Citations
Opening the Black Box: Interpretable Machine Learning for Geneticists.

Christina B. Azodi;Christina B. Azodi;Jiliang Tang;Shin-Han Shiu

391
Citations
Deep reinforcement learning for page-wise recommendations

Xiangyu Zhao;Long Xia;Liang Zhang;Zhuoye Ding

386
Citations
Recommendations with Negative Feedback via Pairwise Deep Reinforcement Learning

Xiangyu Zhao;Liang Zhang;Zhuoye Ding;Long Xia

381
Citations
Content-aware point of interest recommendation on location-based social networks

Huiji Gao;Jiliang Tang;Xia Hu;Huan Liu

378
Citations
Attributed Network Embedding for Learning in a Dynamic Environment

Jundong Li;Harsh Dani;Xia Hu;Jiliang Tang

371
Citations
Exploiting homophily effect for trust prediction

Jiliang Tang;Huiji Gao;Xia Hu;Huan Liu

355
Citations
Exploring Social-Historical Ties on Location-Based Social Networks

Huiji Gao;Jiliang Tang;Huan Liu

329
Citations
mTrust: discerning multi-faceted trust in a connected world

Jiliang Tang;Huiji Gao;Huan Liu

318
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Huan Liu Arizona State University

Suhang Wang Pennsylvania State University

Dawei Yin Baidu (China)

Xia Hu Rice University

Yi Chang Jilin University

Charu C. Aggarwal IBM (United States)

Jundong Li University of Virginia

Qing Li Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jianping Wang City University of Hong Kong

Baoxin Li Shaanxi Normal University

External Links

Personal website of Jiliang Tang Google Scholar page

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