In this paper, we study the problem of author identification under double-blind review setting, which is to identify potential authors given information of an anonymized paper. Different from existing approaches that rely heavily on feature engineering, we propose to use network embedding approach to address the problem, which can automatically represent nodes into lower dimensional feature vectors. However, there are two major limitations in recent studies on network embedding: (1) they are usually general-purpose embedding methods, which are independent of the specific tasks; and (2) most of these approaches can only deal with homogeneous networks, where the heterogeneity of the network is ignored. Hence, challenges faced here are two folds: (1) how to embed the network under the guidance of the author identification task, and (2) how to select the best type of information due to the heterogeneity of the network.To address the challenges, we propose a task-guided and pathaugmented heterogeneous network embedding model. In our model, nodes are first embedded as vectors in latent feature space. Embeddings are then shared and jointly trained according to task-specific and network-general objectives. We extend the existing unsupervised network embedding to incorporate meta paths in heterogeneous networks, and select paths according to the specific task. The guidance from author identification task for network embedding is provided both explicitly in joint training and implicitly during meta path selection. Our experiments demonstrate that by using pathaugmented network embedding with task guidance, our model can obtain significantly better accuracy at identifying the true authors comparing to existing methods. network mining problems, good representations of data are very important, as demonstrated by many previous work [16,15,17,26,7]. Unlike traditional supervised learning, dense vectorized representations [16,15] are not directly available in networked data [26]. Hence, many traditional methods under network settings heavily rely on problem specific feature engineering [12,13,34,9,33].Although feature engineering can incorporate prior knowledge of the problem and network structure, usually it is time-consuming, problem specific (thus not transferable), and the extracted features may be too simple for complicated data sets [3]. Several network embedding methods [17,26,25] have been proposed to automatically learn feature representations for networked data. A key idea behind network embedding is learning to map nodes into vector space, such that the proximities among nodes can be preserved. Similar nodes (in terms of connectivity, or other properties) are expected to be placed near each other in the vector space.Unfortunately, most existing embedding methods produce generalpurpose embeddings that are independent of tasks, and they are usually designed for homogeneous networks [17,26]. When it comes to author identification problem under the heterogeneous networks, existing embedding methods cannot be applied direc...