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Dr. Xiangdong An

Assistant Professor


Office: James M. Baker University Center 335
Mathematics
College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
xan@clayton.edu

Biography

Dr. An is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Information Technology Department at Clayton State University. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee at Martin, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Millsaps College. He had worked in Canada at York University, Dalhousie University, and Saint Mary's University as an Instructor and Postdoc. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo (Canada), Master of Engineering in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control from Nankai University (China), and Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Tianjin University (China).

Education

Ph D, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 2005

Awards and Honors

Governor's Teaching Fellows, Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia, Honor, 2023

2023 NASA MINDS Technical Posters 3rd Place (Senior Teams), Advisor, NASA, Award, 2023

2024 NASA MINDS Technical Posters 3rd Place (Underclassman Teams), Advisor, NASA, Award, 2024

2024 NASA MINDS Honorable Mention on Championship Design, Build, and Demonstration (Underclassman Teams), Advisor, NASA, Award, 2024

Intellectual Contributions

Xiangdong An, Jimmy Huang, geNov: A New Metric for Measuring Novelty and Relevancy in Biomedical Information Retrieval, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) – November 2017

Xiangdong An, Jimmy Huang, Boosting Novelty for Biomedical Information Retrieval through Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis, ACM SIGIR'13 – July 2013

Charnyote Pluempitiwiriyawej, Nick Cercone, Xiangdong An, Lexical Acquisition and Clustering of Word Senses to Conceptual Lexicon Construction, Computers and Mathematics with Applications – May 2009

Xiangdong An, Yang Xiang, Nick Cercone, Dynamic Multiagent Probabilistic Reasoning, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning – April 2008

Yang Xiang, Xiangdong An, Nick Cercone, Simulation of Graphical Models for Multiagent Probabilistic Inference, Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International – October 2003

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Xiangdong An, Robots Collaborate Under Uncertainty While Exploring the Moon, Clayton State Retirees Association, Clayton State University, 1196, Funded –  Spring 2024 to Spring 2024

Xiangdong An, Robots Reason Under Uncertainty, NASA, Federal, 2500, Funded –  August 2023 to May 2024

Xiangdong An, Autonomous Robots Collaborate Best Under Uncertainty and Communication Limitations, NASA, Federal, 2500, Funded –  August 1 2022 to May 31 2023

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

University, IRB, Committee Member –  August 2022 to July 2025

University, University Graduate Affairs Committee, Committee Member –  August 2023 to Present

College, CIMS Student Award Committee, Committee Member –  January 2022 to Present

College, Graduate Subcommittee of CIMS Curriculum Committee, Committee Member –  August 2022 to Present

Department, CSIT Scholarship Committee, Committee Chair –  August 2022 to Present

Department, CSIT Curriculum Committee, Committee Member –  January 2022 to Present

Service to the Profession

Committee Member, WI/IAT Conference 2010 to Present

Committee Member, Canadian AI Conference 2013 to Present

Committee Member, IEA/AIE Conference 2019 to Present