Dr. Junbo Zhang is a Senior Researcher of JD Intelligent Cities Research. He is leading the Urban AI Product Department of JD iCity at JD Technology, as well as AI Lab of JD Intelligent Cities Research. His team is focusing on the research, development, and innovation of urban computing and spatio-temporal data mining/AI, with a broad range of applications in smart city.

Prior to that, he was a researcher at MSRA from 2015 - 2018. He has published over 60 research papers (e.g. AI Journal, IEEE TKDE, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, ACL, UbiComp) in refereed journals and conferences. He serves as an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. He received B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He received the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education in 2021, the 22nd China Patent Excellence Award in 2021, the ACM Chengdu Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2016, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award in 2016, the Si Shi Yang Hua Medal (Top 1/1000) of SWJTU in 2012, and the Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Sichuan Province in 2013. He is a senior member of IEEE and CCF, and a committee member of CCF-AI.

Hiring: The team has multiple Urban Computing/spatio-temporal AI Researcher, Engineer, and Intern positions open in Beijing, China. Please feel free to send your CV if interested.