Can Wang is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University. His main research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, large-scale graph intelligence algorithms and applications. He has published over 100 high-quality academic papers in top international conferences such as SIGKDD, WWW, AAAI, NeurIPS, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACM MM, SIGIR, and ICDE, and in top international journals like TKDE, TIP, and TOIS. He holds over 20 authorized invention patents. He received the Best Paper Award at AAAI 2012 (the first paper from mainland China to win this award since the conference’s inception in 1980) and a Best Paper Award nomination at ACM Multimedia 2010. He has led over 20 projects, including projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key projects of the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, sub-projects of the National Key Technology R&D Program, and international and enterprise cooperation projects. He has received First Prizes in the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Awards in 2011, 2018, and 2019 for his contributions to big data, financial risk control, and intelligent accessibility technologies, respectively.

Since 2005, he has served as the head coach of the Zhejiang University Programming Team. He led the team to win the championship at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Orlando, USA in May 2011 and the silver medal in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2009. As of 2024, Zhejiang University has qualified for the ACM-ICPC World Finals for 21 consecutive years. From April 2021 to September 2022, he served as the Zhejiang Provincial Commissioner for NOI (National Olympiad in Informatics) of the China Computer Federation, responsible for organizing algorithm competitions for college and K-12 students in Zhejiang Province. His work in cultivating students’ programming abilities has been recognized with awards including the Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award in 2014 and the First Prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Teaching Achievement Award in 2014.