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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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2019
Journal Article
Online sales prediction via trend alignment-based multitask recurrent neural networks
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu, Wang, Hao, Zhou, Xiaofang and Li, Xue (2019). Online sales prediction via trend alignment-based multitask recurrent neural networks. Knowledge and Information Systems, 62 (6), 2139-2167. doi: 10.1007/s10115-019-01404-8
2019
Journal Article
Group-level personality detection based on text generated networks
Sun, Xiangguo, Liu, Bo, Meng, Qing, Cao, Jiuxin, Luo, Junzhou and Yin, Hongzhi (2019). Group-level personality detection based on text generated networks. World Wide Web, 23 (3), 1887-1906. doi: 10.1007/s11280-019-00729-2
2019
Journal Article
Semi-supervised clustering with deep metric learning and graph embedding
Li, Xiaocui, Yin, Hongzhi, Zhou, Ke and Zhou, Xiaofang (2019). Semi-supervised clustering with deep metric learning and graph embedding. World Wide Web, 23 (2), 781-798. doi: 10.1007/s11280-019-00723-8
2019
Journal Article
Efficient user guidance for validating participatory sensing data
Cong, Phan Thanh, Tam, Nguyen Thanh, Yin, Hongzhi, Zheng, Bolong, Stantic, Bela and Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet (2019). Efficient user guidance for validating participatory sensing data. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 10 (4) 37, 1-30. doi: 10.1145/3326164
2019
Conference Publication
Find a Reasonable Ending for Stories: Does Logic Relation Help the Story Cloze Test?
Shang, Mingyue, Fu, Zhenxin, Yin, Hongzhi, Tang, Bo, Zhao, Dongyan and Yan, Rui (2019). Find a Reasonable Ending for Stories: Does Logic Relation Help the Story Cloze Test?. The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Honolulu, HI United States, 27 January – 1 February 2019. Menlo Park, CA United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v33i01.330110031
2019
Book Chapter
Spatiotemporal recommendation with big geo-social networking data
Wang, Weiqing and Yin, Hongzhi (2019). Spatiotemporal recommendation with big geo-social networking data. Big data recommender systems - Volume 1: Algorithms, architectures, big data, security and trust. (pp. 193-224) edited by Osman Khalid, Samee U. Khan and Albert Y. Zomaya. Stevenage, United Kingdom: The Institution of Engineering and Technology. doi: 10.1049/pbpc035f_ch9
2019
Journal Article
MCP: a multi-component learning machine to predict protein secondary structure
Khalatbari, Leila, Kangavari, M. R., Hosseini, Saeid, Yin, Hongzhi and Cheung, Ngai-Man (2019). MCP: a multi-component learning machine to predict protein secondary structure. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 110, 144-155. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.04.040
2019
Journal Article
Leveraging multi-aspect time-related influence in location recommendation
Hosseini, Saeid, Yin, Hongzhi, Zhou, Xiaofang, Sadiq, Shazia, Kangavari, Mohammad Reza and Cheung, Ngai-Man (2019). Leveraging multi-aspect time-related influence in location recommendation. World Wide Web, 22 (3), 1001-1028. doi: 10.1007/s11280-018-0573-2
2019
Journal Article
Spatiotemporal representation learning for translation-based POI recommendation
Qian, Tieyun, Liu, Bei, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2019). Spatiotemporal representation learning for translation-based POI recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 37 (2) 18, 1-24. doi: 10.1145/3295499
2019
Conference Publication
IWSC 2017 chairs' welcome
Zhang, Rui, Li, Jianxin, Yin, Hongzhi, Reynolds, Mark, Cheema, Muhammad Aamir and Chen, Ling (2019). IWSC 2017 chairs' welcome. International Conference on World Wide Web , Perth, WA, Australia, 3-7 April 2017. Geneva, Switzerland: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee.
2019
Conference Publication
What can history tell us? Identifying relevant sessions for next-item recommendation
Sun, Ke, Qian, Tieyun, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Chen, Yiqi and Chen, Ling (2019). What can history tell us? Identifying relevant sessions for next-item recommendation. 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Beijing, China, 3-7 November 2019. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357384.3358050
2019
Conference Publication
BLOMA: explain collaborative filtering via Boosted Local rank-One Matrix Approximation
Gao, Chongming, Yuan, Shuai, Zhang, Zhong, Yin, Hongzhi and Shao, Junming (2019). BLOMA: explain collaborative filtering via Boosted Local rank-One Matrix Approximation. 24th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 22-25 April 2019. Philadelphia, PA, United States: Elsevier. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18590-9_72
2019
Conference Publication
Streaming Session-based Recommendation
Guo, Lei, Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Zhou, Alexander, Wang, Qinyong and Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet (2019). Streaming Session-based Recommendation. 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD), Anchorage, AK United States, 4-8 August 2019. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3292500.3330839
2019
Conference Publication
Online user representation learning across heterogeneous social networks
Wang, Weiqing, Yin, Hongzhi, Du, Xingzhong, Hua, Wen, Li, Yongjun and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2019). Online user representation learning across heterogeneous social networks. 42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), Paris, France, 21-25 July 2019. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/3331184.3331258
2019
Conference Publication
Exploiting centrality information with graph convolutions for network representation learning
Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Peng, Wen-Chih and Li, Xue (2019). Exploiting centrality information with graph convolutions for network representation learning. IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau, China, 8-11 April 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2019.00059
2019
Conference Publication
Find a reasonable ending for stories: Does logic relation help the story cloze test?
Shang, Mingyue, Fu, Zhenxin, Yin, Hongzhi, Tang, Bo, Zhao, Dongyan and Yan, Rui (2019). Find a reasonable ending for stories: Does logic relation help the story cloze test?. 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence / 31st Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference / 9th AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Honolulu, HI, United States, 27 January - 1 February, 2019. Palo Alto, CA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
2019
Conference Publication
Inferring substitutable products with deep network embedding
Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Qinyong, Chen, Tong, Chen, Hongxu and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2019). Inferring substitutable products with deep network embedding. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Macao, China, 10-16 August 2019. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2019/598
2019
Conference Publication
Multi-hop path queries over knowledge graphs with neural memory networks
Wang, Qinyong, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Weiqing, Huang, Zi, Guo, Guibing and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2019). Multi-hop path queries over knowledge graphs with neural memory networks. 24th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 22 - 25 April 2019. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18576-3_46
2019
Conference Publication
Enhancing collaborative filtering with generative augmentation
Wang, Qinyong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi, Wang, Hao and Cui, Lizhen (2019). Enhancing collaborative filtering with generative augmentation. 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD), Anchorage, AK United States, 4-8 August 2019. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3292500.3330873
2019
Journal Article
Spatiotemporal recommendation with big geo-social networking data
Wang, Weiqing and Yin, Hongzhi (2019). Spatiotemporal recommendation with big geo-social networking data. IET Professional Applications of Computing Series, 35, 193-224.
Funding
Current funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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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
Meeting Challenges on Secure Recommender Systems
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
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
Sustainable On-Device Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen
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Doctor Philosophy
Causal Analysis for Decision Support in Public Health
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq, 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
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
Integrated high-throughput material synthesis and characterisation system
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jingwei Hou
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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
Understanding nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater treatment processes with stable isotopes and mathematical modelling
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Haoran Duan, Professor Liu Ye
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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