Assistant Professor
Office: James M. Baker University Center 335
Mathematics
College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
xan@clayton.edu
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).
Ph D, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 2005
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
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
Xiangdong An, Autonomous Robots Collaborate Best Under Uncertainty and Communication Limitations, NASA, Federal, 2500, Funded – August 1 2022 to May 31 2023
University, IRB, Committee Member – August 1 2022 to July 31 2025
College, CIMS Student Award Committee, Committee Member – January 1 2022 to Present
College, CIMS Curriculum Committee, Committee Member – August 1 2022 to Present
Department, Student Award Committee, Committee Chair – August 1 2022 to Present
Department, Curriculum, Committee Member – January 1 2022 to Present
Committee Member, WI/IAT Conference 2010 to Present
Committee Member, Canadian AI Conference 2013 to Present
Committee Member, IEA/AIE Conference 2019 to Present