Jian Wu

Dr. Jian Wu is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Old Dominion University's College of Science. He serves as the technical leader for the CiteSeerX project under Dr. C. Lee Giles and directs the LAMP-SYS Lab, focusing on applied machine learning and natural language processing systems. His research spans scholarly big data, digital libraries, and computational reproducibility.

• PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Penn State, 2011)
• Bachelor's in Physics and Astronomy (USTC, 2004)

Research interests include:

• Text mining and scholarly big data processing
• Applied machine learning and deep learning systems
• Natural language processing for scientific documents
• Information retrieval and digital library infrastructure
• Computational reproducibility in scientific research

Recent publications emphasize computational reproducibility (2024-2025), scientific claim verification (2024), and technical data extraction from scholarly tables and diagrams (2023-2025). These works combine machine learning, NLP, and digital library technologies to address challenges in scientific data management.

• IMLS grant (2024) for preserving open access datasets
• NSF REU Site award (2022) for disinformation research
• Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor (2020)

Teaching philosophy centers on student-directed learning across 6+ courses including:

• Web Programming (CS418/518)
• Database Concepts (CS450/550)
• Information Retrieval (CS734/834)
• Mining Scholarly Big Data (CS795/895)
• Deep Learning for NLU (CS795/895)

LAMP-SYS Lab develops systems for scientific document analysis with current members:

• PhD students: Muntabir Choudhury, Xin Wei, Kehinde Ajayi, Lamia Salsabil
• Alumni: Pei Wang (now at Microsoft)