Jian Tan

Principal Researcher, AI Defense, Cisco
Joined
January 2026

Names

Jian Tan (Preferred)

Emails

****@alibaba-inc.com (Confirmed)
, 
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, 
****@cisco.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher
AI Defense, Cisco (cisco.com)
2025 – Present
Researcher
Cloud, Alibaba Group (alibaba-inc.com)
2018 – 2025
Principal Researcher
Cloud, Alibaba Group (alibaba-inc.com)
2018 – 2025
Assistant Professor
ECE, The Ohio State University (osu.edu)
2015 – 2018
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus (osu.edu)
2015 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Predrag Jelenkovic
2002 – 2008

Expertise

LLM
, 
Context Engineering
, 
Machine learning and its applications
2018 – Present
Stochastic Analysis
, 
Large-scale Optimization
, 
Bayesian Optimization
2017 – 2021
Stochastic processors
, 
Optimization
, 
Statistics
2002 – 2018

Publications

Co-Authors