His research area includes web data mining, machine learning, high-dimensional computational statistics, large-scale complex network analysis, social computing, big data mining and analytics, medical and healthcare data analysis, business intelligence etc. Jian Guo received his bachelor degree from Tsinghua University (major in mathematics and applied mathematics) in 2003. He studied in University of Michigan at Ann Arbor from 2006 to 2011 and received his Ph.D. degree there. From 2004 to 2005, he founded a startup, focusing on mobile development and sales.