Tao Peng is a professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology, and the vice-director of the Institute of Big Data Science and Technology at Jilin University. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, and applications of deep learning to NLP. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Jilin University in 2007. In the same year, he joined the faculty of the CCST at JLU.