Jian Pei

Arthur S. Pearse Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

Data science, data mining, databases, information retrieval, computational statistics, applied machine learning and AI.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Arthur S. Pearse Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
  • Professor of Computer Science
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Contact Information

Education

  • Ph.D. Simon Fraser University, 2002

Courses Taught

  • CBB 526: Data Science
  • CBB 590: Special Topics in Computational Biology
  • COMPSCI 393: Research Independent Study
  • COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study
  • COMPSCI 526: Data Science
  • COMPSCI 590: Advanced Topics in Computer Science
  • ECE 583: Data Science
  • ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Wu, L., J. Pei, J. Tang, Y. Xia, and X. Guo. “Deep Learning on Graphs: Methods and Applications (DLG-KDD2023).” In Proceedings of the Acm Sigkdd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 5891–92, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3580305.3599207.
  • Wu, L., P. Cui, J. Pei, L. Zhao, and X. Guo. “Graph Neural Networks: Foundation, Frontiers and Applications.” In Proceedings of the Acm Sigkdd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 5831–32, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3580305.3599560.
  • Liu, C., Z. Zhou, J. Pei, Y. Zhang, and Y. Shi. “Decentralized Composite Optimization in Stochastic Networks: A Dual Averaging Approach with Linear Convergence.” Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control 68, no. 8 (August 1, 2023): 4650–65. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2022.3209951.
  • Wu, S., R. Zhao, Y. Zheng, J. Pei, and B. Liu. “Identify Event Causality with Knowledge and Analogy.” In Proceedings of the 37th Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aaai 2023, 37:13745–53, 2023.
  • Xu, Z., L. Shou, J. Pei, M. Gong, Q. Su, X. Quan, and D. Jiang. “A Graph Fusion Approach for Cross-Lingual Machine Reading Comprehension.” In Proceedings of the 37th Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aaai 2023, 37:13861–68, 2023.