The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Hanghang Tong

Hanghang Tong
Hanghang Tong
Professor
(217) 244-0884
2120 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

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Research Interests

  • Large scale data mining and machine learning, especially for graph and multimedia data with applications to social networks analysis, healthcare, cyber-security and e-commerce.

Research Areas

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 412 CSP (CS 412 P3, CS 412 P4, CS 412 PG, CS 412 PU) - Introduction to Data Mining
  • CS 512 - Data Mining Principles
  • CS 514 - Adv Topics in Network Science
  • CS 598 HT - Graph Machine Learning

News Notes

  • 4/2/2026

    United States Patent no. 12,561,555 "System and method for analyzing network of tensor time series" invented by CS professor Hanghang Tong, CS Ph.D. student Baoyu Jing, Yada Zhu, Jinjun Xiong, Nitin Gaur and Anna Topol and assigned to IBM and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for invention P202009336. This significant milestone achievement is a testament to the team's dedication, ingenuity, and expertise, propelling technology forward. To explore the full patent, visit the United States Patent and Trademark Office website and search (upper left) for "12561555." 

  • 3/6/2025

    CS professor Hanghang Tong has been selected for AAAI Senior Member status. Six members are in the  2025 class, chosen for their significant accomplishments in the field of artificial intelligence.