Jian Wu PhD

Dr. Jian Wu is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, Virginia, United States. He is the tech leader of the CiteSeerX project, directed by Dr. C. Lee Giles. He is a member of the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group (WS-DL). He directs the Lab for Applied Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Systems (LAMP-SYS) at ODU. Before joining ODU, Dr. Jian Wu was an assistant teaching professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Jian Wu received his bachelor's degree in 2004 from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Physics and Astronomy. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University in August 2011. After that, he joined the CiteSeerX team led by Dr. C. Lee Giles. Jian Wu is the tech leader of the CiteSeerX project. He led a small team to scale the CiteSeerX collection from 3 million to 10 million academic documents from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Jian Wu is the Co-PI of an NSF-supported project to build a scalable and sustainable CiteSeerX to support scholarly big data in the long term. Dr. Jian Wu has published 48 peer-reviewed papers in ACM, IEEE, AAAI conferences, journals, and magazines, as of October 2020, including best paper award and nominations. Dr. Jian Wu also published 7 journal articles in astronomical journals in his early career.

Dr. Jian Wu's collaborators include but are not limited to Dr. Michael Nelson, Dr. Michele Weigle, Dr. Sampath Jayarathna at ODU CS, the CiteSeerX team directed by Dr. C. Lee Giles at the Pennsylvania State University, the Digital Library Research Laboratory directed by Dr. Ed Fox at Virginia Tech, Dr. Diane Oyen's group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the Document and Pattern Recognition Lab directed by Dr. Richard Zanibbi at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the University of Chicago at Illinois (UIC), and National Singapore University (NUS). Dr. Wu's research is supported by the NSF, IMLS, DARPA, and DoE.