Jing Jiang

Roles and Affiliations: Full Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS), Singapore Management University (SMU).
Research Advisor to Xiaosen Zheng and Kankan Zhou. Serves as Action Editor for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), Program Co-Chair of EMNLP 2019, and Editorial Board Member of Computational Linguistics (2015-2017).

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008)
• B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University

Research Focus: Specializes in natural language processing (NLP), text mining, machine learning, and data mining. Current interests include question answering, social media content analysis, and combating misinformation. Explores topics like counterfactual syntax for cross-lingual understanding, interventional training for robust NLU, and bias detection in vision-language models.

Publications: Over 100+ peer-reviewed papers across top conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL) and journals. Recent work emphasizes multimodal analysis, hate speech detection in memes, and robustness improvements for large language models. Key themes include cross-lingual systems, knowledge base question answering, and misinformation mitigation.

Grants & Advising: Supervises PhD/Master’s students in cutting-edge NLP research. Leads projects on model memorization studies, hate meme classification, and interventional training frameworks. Active in organizing conferences and editorial roles.

Teaching: Teaches courses in software foundations and programming fundamentals, bridging theory and practical NLP applications.