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
Conference Publication
Accelerating scalable graph neural network inference with node-adaptive propagation
Gao, Xinyi, Zhang, Wentao, Yu, Junliang, Shao, Yingxia, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Cui, Bin and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Accelerating scalable graph neural network inference with node-adaptive propagation. 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 13-16 May 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icde60146.2024.00236
2024
Conference Publication
Towards personalized privacy: user-governed data contribution for federated recommendation
Qu, Liang, Yuan, Wei, Zheng, Ruiqi, Cui, Lizhen, Shi, Yuhui and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Towards personalized privacy: user-governed data contribution for federated recommendation. WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024, Singapore, 13 - 17 May 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645690
2024
Conference Publication
Challenging low homophily in social recommendation
Jiang, Wei, Gao, Xinyi, Xu, Guandong, Chen, Tong and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Challenging low homophily in social recommendation. WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024, Singapore, 13-17 May 2024. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645460
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
Journal Article
Variational counterfactual prediction under runtime domain corruption
Wen, Hechuan, Chen, Tong, Chai, Li Kheng, Sadiq, Shazia, Gao, Junbin and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Variational counterfactual prediction under runtime domain corruption. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (5) 10271745, 2271-2284. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2023.3321893
2024
Journal Article
OntoMedRec: logically-pretrained model-agnostic ontology encoders for medication recommendation
Tan, Weicong, Wang, Weiqing, Zhou, Xin, Buntine, Wray, Bingham, Gordon and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). OntoMedRec: logically-pretrained model-agnostic ontology encoders for medication recommendation. World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems, 27 (3) ARTN 28. doi: 10.1007/s11280-024-01268-1
2024
Conference Publication
Defense against model extraction attacks on recommender systems
Zhang, Sixiao, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu and Long, Cheng (2024). Defense against model extraction attacks on recommender systems. 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Merida, Mexico, 4-8 March 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3616855.3635751
2024
Conference Publication
Budgeted embedding table for recommender systems
Qu, Yunke, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Budgeted embedding table for recommender systems. 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Merida, Mexico, 4-8 March 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3616855.3635778
2024
Conference Publication
Motif-based prompt learning for universal cross-domain recommendation
Hao, Bowen, Yang, Chaoqun, Guo, Lei, Yu, Junliang and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Motif-based prompt learning for universal cross-domain recommendation. 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Merida, Mexico, 4-8 March 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3616855.3635754
2024
Journal Article
Time interval-enhanced graph neural network for shared-account cross-domain sequential recommendation
Guo, Lei, Zhang, Jinyu, Tang, Li, Chen, Tong, Zhu, Lei and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Time interval-enhanced graph neural network for shared-account cross-domain sequential recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35 (3), 4002-4016. doi: 10.1109/tnnls.2022.3201533
2024
Conference Publication
Data Security Defense: Modeling and Detection of Synchrophasor Data Spoofing Attack for Grid Edge
Qiu, Wei, Yin, He, Wu, Yuru, Zeng, Chujie, Chen, Chang, Dong, Yuqing and Liu, Yilu (2024). Data Security Defense: Modeling and Detection of Synchrophasor Data Spoofing Attack for Grid Edge. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/isgt59692.2024.10454172
2024
Journal Article
MCRPL: A pretrain, prompt, and fine-tune paradigm for non-overlapping many-to-one cross-domain recommendation
Liu, Hao, Guo, Lei, Zhu, Lei, Jiang, Yongqiang, Gao, Min and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). MCRPL: A pretrain, prompt, and fine-tune paradigm for non-overlapping many-to-one cross-domain recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 42 (4) 97, 1-24. doi: 10.1145/3641860
2024
Journal Article
XSimGCL: towards extremely simple graph contrastive learning for recommendation
Yu, Junliang, Xia, Xin, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). XSimGCL: towards extremely simple graph contrastive learning for recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (2), 913-926. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2023.3288135
2024
Journal Article
Portable graph-based rumour detection against multi-modal heterophily
Nguyen, Thanh Tam, Ren, Zhao, Nguyen, Thanh Toan, Jo, Jun, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Portable graph-based rumour detection against multi-modal heterophily. Knowledge-Based Systems, 284 111310. doi: 10.1016/j.knosys.2023.111310
2024
Journal Article
HiTSKT: A hierarchical transformer model for session-aware knowledge tracing
Ke, Fucai, Wang, Weiqing, Tan, Weicong, Du, Lan, Jin, Yuan, Huang, Yujin and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). HiTSKT: A hierarchical transformer model for session-aware knowledge tracing. Knowledge-Based Systems, 284 111300. doi: 10.1016/j.knosys.2023.111300
2024
Conference Publication
Hide your model: a parameter transmission-free federated recommender system
Yuan, Wei, Yang, Chaoqun, Qu, Liang, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Li, Jianxin and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Hide your model: a parameter transmission-free federated recommender system. 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 13-16 May 2024. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE60146.2024.00053
2024
Conference Publication
BOURNE: bootstrapped self-supervised learning framework for unified graph anomaly detection
Liu, Jie, He, Mengting, Shang, Xuequn, Shi, Jieming, Cui, Bin and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). BOURNE: bootstrapped self-supervised learning framework for unified graph anomaly detection. 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 13-16 May 2024. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE60146.2024.00220
2024
Journal Article
Reliable Node Similarity Matrix Guided Contrastive Graph Clustering
Liu, Yunhui, Gao, Xinyi, He, Tieke, Zheng, Tao, Zhao, Jianhua and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Reliable Node Similarity Matrix Guided Contrastive Graph Clustering. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, PP (99), 1-14. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2024.3435887
2024
Journal Article
Hyperbolic translation-based sequential recommendation
Yu, Yonghong, Zhang, Aoran, Zhang, Li, Gao, Rong, Gao, Shang and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Hyperbolic translation-based sequential recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 1-17. doi: 10.1109/tcss.2024.3409711
Funding
Current funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Hongzhi Yin is:
- 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
Knowledge Graph-based Conversational Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu
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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
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
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
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
Sustainable On-Device Recommender Systems
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
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
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
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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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Toward Deep Conversational Recommender Systems
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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