Scholar
Tian Zheng
Google Scholar ID: -4J-KZoAAAAJ
Columbia University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,308
H-index
19
i10-index
41
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Serves on the National Academies Committee on the Frontiers of Statistics in Science and Engineering: 2035 and Beyond
- Founded the aiX Faculty Fellowship Program and AI+X Faculty Leadership Fellows Program to advance discipline-specific AI education
- Published reflections on structuring AI education dialogues on arXiv
- Published an article on the Collaboratory model in Harvard Data Science Review
- 2025 preprint: 'AI Education in Higher Education: A Taxonomy for Curriculum Reform and the Mission of Know'
Research Experience
- Leads TZstats Convergence Lab to foster convergence of data science across disciplines
- Participates in the NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) 'Learning the Earth with AI and Physics (LEAP)' to integrate climate science and data science for improved climate projections
- Long-term collaboration with Professor Maria Uriarte on applying machine learning to study climate change impacts on tropical forests
- Leads the 'AI for Social Good and Society (AI4SGS)' initiative applying AI to pressing social and public health challenges
- Develops AutoClimDS project exploring generative AI tools to lower barriers in climate data science
- Pioneers the 'Collaboratory' educational model using a crowdsourcing approach to create transdisciplinary data science pedagogy
- Instructs 'Applied Data Science at Columbia', a project-based course launched in 2016 featuring multiple mini-projects per semester
Background
- Professor of Statistics at Columbia University
- Lead of TZstats Convergence Lab
- Focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration to address real-world problems using data, tools, and methods
- Committed to training the next generation of polymath researchers
- Actively engaged in AI education, frontiers of statistics, and their applications in science and engineering
