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Overview
Background
Prof. Hongzhi Yin works as an ARC Future Fellow and Professor and director of the Responsible Big Data Intelligence Lab (RBDI) at The University of Queensland, Australia. He has made notable contributions to predictive analytics, recommendation systems, graph learning, social media analytics, and decentralized and edge intelligence. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his research achievements. He has been named to IEEE Computer Society’s AI’s 10 to Watch 2022 and Field Leader of Data Mining & Analysis in The Australian's Research 2020 magazine. In addition, he has received the prestigious 2023 Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2021, the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2016, UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award 2019, Rising Star of Science Award (2023 and 2022) and 2024 Computer Science in Australia Leader Award, 2024 Computer Science in Australia Leader Award, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Data Mining (2024, 2023 and 2022). His research has won 8 international and national Best Paper Awards, including Best Paper Award - Honorable Mention at WSDM 2023, Best Paper Award at ICDE 2019, Best Student Paper Award at DASFAA 2020, Best Paper Award Nomination at ICDM 2018, ACM Computing Reviews' 21 Annual Best of Computing Notable Books and Articles, Best Paper Award at ADC 2018 and 2016. His Ph.D. thesis won Peking University Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award 2014 and CCF Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Nomination) 2014. He has ten conference papers recognized as the Most Influential Papers in Paper Digest, including KDD 2021 and 2013, AAAI 2021, SIGIR 2022, WWW 2023 and 2021, CIKM 2021, 2019, 2016, and 2015. He has published over 300 papers with an H-index of 75, including 200+ CCF A and 80+ CCF B, 200+ CORE A* and 80+ CORE A, such as KDD, SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM Multimedia, ECCV, IEEE TKDE, TNNL, VLDB Journal, and ACM TOIS. He has been the leading author (first/co-first author or corresponding author) for 200+. He has been an SPC/PC member for many top conferences, such as AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, VLDB, ICDE, ICDM, and CIKM. He has been serving as Associate Editor/Guest Editor/Editorial Board for Neural Networks (JCR Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q1, and CCF B), Science China Information Sciences (JCR Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q1, and CCF A), Data Science and Engineering (DSE, JCR Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q2), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST, CCF B), Journal of Social Computing, ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2022-2023 (TOIS, CCF A), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2020-2021 (TIST, Q1), Information Systems 2020-2021 (CORE A*), and World Wide Web 2020-2021 and 2017-2018 (CORE A, CCF B). Dr. Yin has also been attracting wide media coverage, such as The Australian, SBS Radio Interviews, UQ News, Sohu.com, Faculty News of EAIT, IEEE Computer Society, ACM Computing Reviews.
Dr. Hongzhi Yin is looking for highly motivated and high-quality Ph.D. students. The University of Queensland ranks in the top 50 as measured by the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities. The University also ranks 47 in the QS World University Rankings, 52 in the US News Best Global Universities Rankings, 60 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 55 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Latest News
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[2 July 2024] I have been invited to serve as area chair at KDD 2025.
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[27 June 2024] Our ARC Linkage Project "Building an Aussie Information Recommendation System You Can Trust" has been granted and funded.
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[16 June 2024] I have been invited to co-chair the User modeling, personalization and recommendation track at The Web Conference 2025.
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[6 June 2024] Recently, we have released 2 comprehensive survey papers.
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[23 May 2024] Our project Personalized On-Device Large Language Models was shortlisted as a finalist for the 2024 iAwards.
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[22 May 2024] Our research paper "Adversarial Item Promotion on Visually-Aware Recommender Systems by Guided Diffusion" has been accepted by the top journal TOIS 2024 (CORE A and CCF A).
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[17 May 2024] We have 4 full research research papers accepted by the prestigious conference KDD 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A).
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[24 April 2024] I have been recognized with 2024 Computer Science in Australia Leader Award in Research.com.
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[26 March 2024] We have three research papers accepted by the top conference SIGIR 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A).
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[14 March 2024] I have again been recognized as the 2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Data Mining.
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[10 March 2024] We have 8 research papers accepted by the prestigious conference ICDE 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A), including 4 accepted in the first round and 4 in the second round.
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Hide Your Model: A Parameter Transmission-free Federated Recommender System
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Unraveling the 'Anomaly' in Time Series Anomaly Detection: A Self-supervised Tri-domain Solution
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BIM: Improving Graph Neural Networks with Balanced Influence Maximization
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Accelerating Scalable Graph Neural Network Inference with Node-Adaptive Propagation
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Graph Condensation for Inductive Node Representation Learning
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BOURNE: Bootstrapped Self-supervised Learning Framework for Unified Graph Anomaly Detection
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HeteFedRec: Federated Recommender Systems with Model Heterogeneity
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[13 February 2024] Congratulations to Dr. Junliang Yu, my Ph.D. graduate, on winning the UQ Graduate School 2023 Dean's Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses.
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[11 February 2024] We have 2 research papers directly accepted in the second round of the prestigious conference ICDE 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A). It's noteworthy that out of over 1000 submissions, only 19 were directly accepted.
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Hide Your Model: A Parameter Transmission-free Federated Recommender System
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Open-World Semi-Supervised Learning for Node Classification
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[2 February 2024] We are organizing a special issue, "Cloud-Edge Collaboration for On-Device Recommendation", in the top journal - Science China Information Sciences (CCF Ranking A, CIC Ranking A, CAA Ranking A ), and call for paper is online.
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[31 January 2024] Our research paper "Personalized Elastic Embedding Learning for On-Device Recommendation" has been accepted by the top journal TKDE 2024 (CORE A* and CCF A).
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[24 January 2024] We have five research papers and one tutorial accepted by The Web Conference 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A).
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On-Device Recommender Systems: A Tutorial on The New-Generation Recommendation Paradigm
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Towards Personalized Privacy: User-Governed Data Contribution for Federated Recommendation
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Decentralized Collaborative Learning with Adaptive Reference Data for On-Device POI Recommendation
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Physical Trajectory Inference Attack and Defense in Decentralized POI Recommendation
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Prompt-enhanced Federated Content Representation Learning for Cross-domain Recommendation
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[23 January 2024] We have released three timely surveys:
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[19 January 2024] I have been invited to serve as Official Nominator for VinFuture Prize (US$3,000,000). The nomination is open!
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[13 January 2024] I have been invited to serve as Area Chair in the Research Track of KDD 2024.
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[1 January 2024] I began to serve as Action/Associate Editor for Neural Networks (JCR Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q1, and CCF B), Data Science and Engineering (DSE, JCR Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q2).
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[1 January 2024] I have been promoted to Professor (Level E) at The University of Queensland.
Availability
- Professor Hongzhi Yin is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Diploma, Peking University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Peking University
Research interests
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Recommender System and User Modeling
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Graph Mining and Embedding
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Decentralized and Federated Learning
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Edge Machine Learning and Applications
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Trustworthy Machine Learning and Applications
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QA, Chatbot and Information Retrieval
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Time Series and Sequence Mining and Prediction
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Spatiotemporal Data Mining
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Smart Healthcare
Research impacts
Prof. Yin is currently directing the Responsible Big Data Intelligence Lab (RBDI). RBDI Lab aims and strives to develop decentralized, on-device, and trustworthy (e.g., privacy-preserving, robust, explainable and fair) data mining and machine learning techniques with theoretical backbones to better discover actionable patterns and intelligence from large-scale, heterogeneous, networked, dynamic and sparse data. RBDI joins forces with other fields such as urban transportation, healthcare, agriculture, E-commerce and marketing to help solve societal, environmental and economic challenges facing humanity in pursuit of a sustainable future. His research has also attracted media coverage, such as The Australian, SBS, UQ News, Faculty News of EAIT, ACM Computing Reviews, 360 News.
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Higher-order knowledge-enhanced recommendation with heterogeneous hypergraph multi-attention
Sakong, Darnbi, Vu, Viet Hung, Huynh, Thanh Trung, Nguyen, Phi Le, Yin, Hongzhi, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Nguyen, Thanh Tam (2024). Higher-order knowledge-enhanced recommendation with heterogeneous hypergraph multi-attention. Information Sciences, 680 121165, 121165. doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2024.121165
2024
Conference Publication
Hate Speech Detection with Generalizable Target-aware Fairness
Chen, Tong, Wang, Danny, Liang, Xurong, Risius, Marten, Demartini, Gianluca and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Hate Speech Detection with Generalizable Target-aware Fairness. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671821
2024
Conference Publication
Unveiling Vulnerabilities of Contrastive Recommender Systems to Poisoning Attacks
Wang, Zongwei, Yu, Junliang, Gao, Min, Yin, Hongzhi, Cui, Bin and Sadiq, Shazia (2024). Unveiling Vulnerabilities of Contrastive Recommender Systems to Poisoning Attacks. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671795
2024
Conference Publication
Diffusion-Based Cloud-Edge-Device Collaborative Learning for Next POI Recommendations
Long, Jing, Ye, Guanhua, Chen, Tong, Wang, Yang, Wang, Meng and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Diffusion-Based Cloud-Edge-Device Collaborative Learning for Next POI Recommendations. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671743
2024
Conference Publication
Graph Condensation for Open-World Graph Learning
Gao, Xinyi, Chen, Tong, Zhang, Wentao, Li, Yayong, Sun, Xiangguo and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Graph Condensation for Open-World Graph Learning. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671917
2024
Journal Article
Explicit knowledge graph reasoning for conversational recommendation
Ren, Xuhui, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Cui, Lizhen, Huang, Zi and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Explicit knowledge graph reasoning for conversational recommendation. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 15 (4) 86, 1-21. doi: 10.1145/3637216
2024
Journal Article
Manipulating Recommender Systems: A Survey of Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures
Nguyen, Thanh Toan, Quoc Viet Hung, Nguyen, Nguyen, Thanh Tam, Huynh, Thanh Trung, Nguyen, Thanh Thi, Weidlich, Matthias and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Manipulating Recommender Systems: A Survey of Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures. ACM Computing Surveys. doi: 10.1145/3677328
2024
Conference Publication
CaseLink: inductive graph learning for legal case retrieval
Tang, Yanran, Qiu, Ruihong, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Xue and Huang, Zi (2024). CaseLink: inductive graph learning for legal case retrieval. 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657693
2024
Conference Publication
Lightweight embeddings for graph collaborative filtering
Liang, Xurong, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen, Wang, Yang, Wang, Meng and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Lightweight embeddings for graph collaborative filtering. SIGIR '24: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657820
2024
Conference Publication
Poisoning decentralized collaborative recommender system and its countermeasures
Zheng, Ruiqi, Qu, Liang, Chen, Tong, Zheng, Kai, Shi, Yuhui and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Poisoning decentralized collaborative recommender system and its countermeasures. SIGIR 2024: The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657814
2024
Journal Article
A dual benchmarking study of facial forgery and facial forensics
Pham, Minh Tam, Huynh, Thanh Trung, Nguyen, Thanh Tam, Nguyen, Thanh Toan, Nguyen, Thanh Thi, Jo, Jun, Yin, Hongzhi and Hung Nguyen, Quoc Viet (2024). A dual benchmarking study of facial forgery and facial forensics. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology. doi: 10.1049/cit2.12362
2024
Journal Article
Personalized elastic embedding learning for on-device recommendation
Zheng, Ruiqi, Qu, Liang, Chen, Tong, Zheng, Kai, Shi, Yuhui and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Personalized elastic embedding learning for on-device recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (7), 3363-3375. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2024.3361562
2024
Journal Article
Bayes-enhanced multi-view attention networks for robust POI recommendation
Xia, Jiangnan, Yang, Yu, Wang, Senzhang, Yin, Hongzhi, Cao, Jiannong and Yu, Philip S. (2024). Bayes-enhanced multi-view attention networks for robust POI recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (7), 2895-2909. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2023.3329673
2024
Journal Article
Heterogeneous decentralised machine unlearning with seed model distillation
Ye, Guanhua, Chen, Tong, Hung Nguyen, Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Heterogeneous decentralised machine unlearning with seed model distillation. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, 9 (3), 608-619. doi: 10.1049/cit2.12281
2024
Journal Article
Adversarial Item Promotion on Visually-Aware Recommender Systems by Guided Diffusion
Chen, Lijian, Yuan, Wei, Chen, Tong, Ye, Guanhua, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Adversarial Item Promotion on Visually-Aware Recommender Systems by Guided Diffusion. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 42 (6), 1-26. doi: 10.1145/3666088
2024
Conference Publication
Physical trajectory inference attack and defense in decentralized POI recommendation
Long, Jing, Chen, Tong, Ye, Guanhua, Zheng, Kai, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Physical trajectory inference attack and defense in decentralized POI recommendation. WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024, Singapore, 13 - 17 May 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645410
2024
Conference Publication
Graph condensation for inductive node representation learning
Gao, Xinyi, Chen, Tong, Zang, Yilong, Zhang, Wentao, Hung Nguyen, Quoc Viet, Zheng, Kai and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Graph condensation for inductive node representation learning. 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 13-16 May 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icde60146.2024.00237
2024
Conference Publication
Decentralized collaborative learning with adaptive reference data for on-device POI recommendation
Zheng, Ruiqi, Qu, Liang, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen, Shi, Yuhui and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Decentralized collaborative learning with adaptive reference data for on-device POI recommendation. WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024, Singapore, 13 - 17 May 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645696
2024
Conference Publication
HeteFedRec: federated recommender systems with model heterogeneity
Yuan, Wei, Qu, Liang, Cui, Lizhen, Tong, Yongxin, Zhou, Xiaofang and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). HeteFedRec: federated recommender systems with model heterogeneity. 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 13-16 May 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icde60146.2024.00109
2024
Conference Publication
Prompt-enhanced federated content representation learning for cross-domain recommendation
Guo, Lei, Lu, Ziang, Yu, Junliang, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Prompt-enhanced federated content representation learning for cross-domain recommendation. 33rd ACM Web Conference, WWW 2024, Singapore, 13 May 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645337
Funding
Current funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
This project tackles the challenging problem of personalised predictive analytics with resource-constrained personal devices and massive-scale data. The knowledge to be generated concerns privacy, fairness, and resource efficiency in the era of Internet of Things. The expected outcomes include a collaborative learning paradigm for building personalised models on personal smart devices in open and fully decentralised settings. Privacy and model fairness are core tenets of the paradigm. Personalised predictive analytics is frontier research that will position Australia at the forefront of AI and give business the tools needed to deploy innovative business systems for market exploitation with a secure, equitable and competitive advantage.
This Earmarked Scholarship project is aligned with a recently awarded Category 1 research grant. It offers you the opportunity to work with leading researchers and contribute to large projects of national significance.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Federated Graph Neural Network-based Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu
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Doctor Philosophy
Meeting Challenges on Secure Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Image Generation from Texts
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Thomas Taimre, Dr Slava Vaisman
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Doctor Philosophy
Knowledge Graph-based Conversational Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu
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Doctor Philosophy
Deep Learning for Graph Data Analysis
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Joint Feature Learning for Recommender System
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater treatment processes with stable isotopes and mathematical modelling
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Haoran Duan, Professor Liu Ye
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Doctor Philosophy
Lightweight Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Generalizable Graph Neural Networks
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Sustainable On-Device Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Integrated high-throughput material synthesis and characterisation system
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jingwei Hou
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Doctor Philosophy
Causal Analysis for Decision Support in Public Health
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq, Dr Rocky Chen
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
From Cloud to Device: Transforming Recommender Systems for On-Device Deployment
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Decentralized On-device Machine Learning and Unlearning for IoT Collaboration
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Enhancing Recommender Systems wtih Self-Supervised Learning
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Toward Deep Conversational Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Secure Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Decentralized Framework for Embedding Large-scale Networks
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Lightweight and Secure Deep Learning-based Mobile Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Sequence Modelling for E-Commerce
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Xue Li
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Graph Representation Learning with Attribute Information
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Xue Li
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2020
Master Philosophy
Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms for Discrete Datasets
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
POINT OF INTERESTS RECOMMENDATION IN LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Multi-modal Data Modeling with Awareness of Efficiency, Reliability, and Privacy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Neural Attentive Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang, Dr Rocky Chen
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2022
Master Philosophy
An exploration into the correlation between users' intentions and candidates for query- and non-query-based retrieval
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Towards Efficient Similarity Search with Semantic Hashing Techniques
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Multimedia Content Analytics with Modality Transition
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Understand Video Event by Exploiting Semantic and Temporal Information for Classification and Retrieval
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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Doctor Philosophy
Modelling Sequential Patterns of User Behaviour in Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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