Nan Jiang

Nan Jiang
Nan Jiang
  • Associate Professor, Computer Science
(217) 300-8275
3322 Siebel Center for Comp Sci

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Education

  • PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2017
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Automation, Tsinghua University, 2011

Research Interests

  • Reinforcement Learning

Monographs

Journal Editorships

  • Action Editor for Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) since 2024
  • Editor for Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning (FnT ML) since 2023

Teaching Honors

  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Excellent), course: CS443 (Spring 2023)
  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Excellent), course: CS542 (Fall 2022)
  • Engineering Council Outstanding Advisor Award (03/2022)
  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Excellent), course: CS498 (Spring 2021)
  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Excellent), course: CS542 (Fall 2021)
  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Outstanding), course: CS598 (Fall 2020)
  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Excellent), course: CS598 (Spring 2019)
  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Excellent), course: CS598 (Fall 2018)

Research Honors

  • Google Research Scholar Award (03/2024)
  • Sloan Research Fellowship (02/2024)
  • ICML 2022 Outstanding Paper Runner Up (07/2022)
  • NSF CAREER Award (03/2022)
  • AAMAS 2015 Best Paper Award (05/2015)

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 443 (CS 498 RL1, CS 498 RL2, CS 498 RL3, CS 498 RL4) - Reinforcement Learning
  • CS 542 - Stat Reinforcement Learning
  • CS 598 NJ - Stat Reinforcement lrng
  • CS 598 NJ - Statistical Reinforcement