Dr. Muhan Zhang is an assistant professor and assistant to the dean at Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University. He is recipient of the National Excellent Youth (Overseas) Project, and Boya Young Scholar of Peking University. He graduated from the IEEE pilot class of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015 and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he was a research scientist at Facebook AI (now Meta AI). He was awarded the AI 2000 most influential scholar honorable mentions in 2022 and 2023 by Aminer. As a pioneer researcher of Graph Neural Networks, his SortPooling algorithm for graph classification was selected as one of the top ten most influential papers at AAAI-2018 and has been cited over a thousand times. His SEAL algorithm for link prediction has achieved three first places on the OGB leaderboard of Stanford University and has been cited over a thousand times too. His algorithms have been written into standard libraries for graph deep learning multiple times. In terms of academic service, he regularly serves as an area chair for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR and other top conferences, and he is a reviewer for top journals such as JMLR, TPAMI, TNNLS, TKDE, TSP, AOAS, and JAIR. As for teaching, he has participated in writing the textbook "Graph Neural Networks: Foundations, Frontiers, and Applications" and teaches "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" and "Machine Learning" at Peking University.
