Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Hongzhi Yin

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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 recommendation systems, structured foundation model, spatial-temporal prediction, LLM and ChatBI, 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, 2024 and 2025 Computer Science in Australia Leader Award, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Data Mining (2022-2025), 2024 and 2025 ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar (top 0.05%). His research has won 8 international and national Best Paper Awards, including Best Student Full Paper Award at CIKM 2024, 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 400 papers with an H-index of 91 (29000+ citations), including 290+ CCF A/CORE A* and 90+ CCF B/CORE A, such as ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, SIGIR, WWW, ACL, 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 300. 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, CCF B, 中科院一区), Science China Information Sciences (JCR Q1, CCF A, 中科院一区), Data Science and Engineering (JCR Q1, 中科院一区), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST, CCF B), Journal of Social Computing, ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2022-2023 (JCR Q1, CCF A, CORE A, 中科院一区), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2020-2021 (JCR 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.

I am now looking for highly motivated 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 40 in the QS World University Rankings and 41 in the US News Best Global Universities Rankings. The University of Queensland is the best in Australia according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR), which has now ranked UQ in the #1 position for 2 consecutive years. Please find the following three PhD scholarships.

Latest News

  1. [20 May 2026] Our ARC Linkage Project 2025 "AI-Powered Design Co-Pilot for Reimagining Australian Single-Family Homes" has been successfully granted and funded.

  2. [16 May 2026] We have three research papers accepted by the top conference KDD 2026 Research Track (CORE A*, CCF A, Acceptance Rate ~18%).

  3. [12 May 2026] I have been recognised in 2026 Edition of Best Scientists in the field of Computer Science and ranked 42 in Australia on Research.com, a leading academic platform.

  4. [8 May 2026] Our research paper "Efficient Prompt Learning for Traffic Forecasting" has been accepted by VLDB Journal (CORE A*, CCF A)

  5. [3 April 2026] We have 3 research papers accepted by the top conference SIGIR 2026.

    • Prompt-Unknown Promotion Attacks against LLM-based Sequential Recommender Systems

    • ProMax: Exploring the Potential of LLM-derived Profiles with Distribution Shaping for Recommender Systems

    • ProEchoMem: Enhancing Long Video Understanding via Multi-Trace Probe-Echo Memory

  6. [27 March 2026] We have successfully secured the opportunity to host the top-tier conference ICDM 2027 in Brisbane.

  7. [24 Feb 2026] We have 3 research papers on ChatBI accepted by the top conferences ICLR 2026 (CORE A*, CCF A) and ICDE 2026 (CORE A*, CCF A).

  8. [21 Feb 2026] I’m pleased to join the Organizing Committee of the premier conference WSDM 2027 as the Conference Awards Co-Chair.

  9. [18 Feb 2026] I’m pleased to join the Organizing Committee of the data mining flagship conference ADMA 2026 as the PC Co-Chair.

  10. [5 Feb 2026] We are organizing a workshop "LLM-UP: LLM-powered User Profiling for Search and Recommendation" at SIGIR 2026.

  11. [26 January 2026] We have 3 papers accepted by the top conference ICLR 2026 (CORE A*).

  12. [20 January 2026] I was invited to serve as Area Chair in the top conference KDD 2026 (CORE A*, CCF A), IJCAI 2026 (CORE A*, CCF A), ARR-ACL 2026 (CORE A*, CCF A) and ICDM 2026 (CORE A*, CCF B).

  13. [14 January] We have two research papers accepted by the top conference WWW 2026 (CORE A*, CCF A). Congratulations to Xinyi and Hung.

  14. [13 January 2025] We have two research papers recognized as ESI Hot Papers and five research papers recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers.

  15. [19 December 2025] I was invited to serve as Area Chair in the top conference SIGIR 2026 (CORE A*, CCF A) and senior PC member at the top conference ICMR 2026 (CORE A, CCF B).

  16. [9 December 2025] I have been recognized as 2025 ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar (top 0.05% of all scholars), #3 in Data Mining, #8 in Information Engineering.

  17. [8 November 2025] Our research paper "SmartAgent: Chain-of-User-Thought for Embodied Personalized Agent in Cyber World" was accepted by the top conference AAAI 2026 (CCF A and CORE A*). Congratulations to Jiaqi.

  18. [4 November 2025] We have released the first survey on Reasoning-Aware Recommender Systems in the LLM Era.

  19. [28 October 2025] My ARC Discovery Project 2026 "Advancing Federated Learning for Unified Urban Spatio-Temporal Predictions" has been successfully granted and funded.

  20. [13 October 2025] I was invited to be Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review (ARR).

  21. [1 October 2025] I have been recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List Career Long (2022-2025) and Single Year (2020-2025).

Availability

Professor Hongzhi Yin is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Diploma, Peking University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Peking University

Research interests

  • Structured Foundation Model

  • Spatial-temporal Prediction

  • LLM and ChatBI

  • Recommender System and User Modeling

  • Edge Machine Learning and Applications

  • Time Series and Sequence Mining and Prediction

  • Trustworthy Machine Learning and Applications

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.

Search Professor Hongzhi Yin’s works on UQ eSpace

425 works between 2011 and 2026
All (425) Book (2) Journal Article (170) Edited Outputs (6) Conference Publication (243) Book Chapter (4)

281 - 300 of 425 works

2020

Conference Publication

Multi-level graph convolutional networks for cross-platform Anchor Link Prediction

Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Sun, Xiangguo, Chen, Tong, Gabrys, Bogdan and Musial, Katarzyna (2020). Multi-level graph convolutional networks for cross-platform Anchor Link Prediction. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Virtual Event, CA, United States, 23-27 August 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3394486.3403201

Multi-level graph convolutional networks for cross-platform Anchor Link Prediction

2020

Conference Publication

FactCatch: incremental pay-as-you-go fact checking with minimal user effort

Nguyen, Thanh Tam, Weidlich, Matthias, Yin, Hongzhi, Zheng, Bolong, Nguyen, Quang Huy and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2020). FactCatch: incremental pay-as-you-go fact checking with minimal user effort. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event China, 25-30 July 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401408

FactCatch: incremental pay-as-you-go fact checking with minimal user effort

2020

Conference Publication

GAG: global attributed graph neural network for streaming session-based recommendation

Qiu, Ruihong, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi and Chen, Tong (2020). GAG: global attributed graph neural network for streaming session-based recommendation. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event China , 25-30 July 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401109

GAG: global attributed graph neural network for streaming session-based recommendation

2020

Conference Publication

Try this instead: personalized and interpretable substitute recommendation

Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Ye, Guanhua, Huang, Zi, Wang, Yang and Wang, Meng (2020). Try this instead: personalized and interpretable substitute recommendation. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event China, 25-30 July 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401042

Try this instead: personalized and interpretable substitute recommendation

2020

Journal Article

TEAGS: time-aware text embedding approach to generate subgraphs

Hosseini, Saeid, Najafipour, Saeed, Cheung, Ngai-Man, Yin, Hongzhi, Kangavari, Mohammad Reza and Zhou, Xiaofang (2020). TEAGS: time-aware text embedding approach to generate subgraphs. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 34 (4), 1136-1174. doi: 10.1007/s10618-020-00688-7

TEAGS: time-aware text embedding approach to generate subgraphs

2020

Journal Article

User account linkage across multiple platforms with location data

Chen, Wei, Wang, Weiqing, Yin, Hongzhi, Fang, Jun-Hua and Zhao, Lei (2020). User account linkage across multiple platforms with location data. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 35 (4), 751-768. doi: 10.1007/s11390-020-0250-7

User account linkage across multiple platforms with location data

2020

Conference Publication

Discovering subsequence patterns for next POI recommendation

Zhao, Kangzhi, Zhang, Yong, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Jin, Zheng, Kai, Zhou, Xiaofang and Xing, Chunxiao (2020). Discovering subsequence patterns for next POI recommendation. Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-20), Yokohama, Japan, 11-17 July, 2020. California, United States: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2020/445

Discovering subsequence patterns for next POI recommendation

2020

Journal Article

Extracting representative user subset of social networks towards user characteristics and topological features

Zhou, Yiming, Han, Yuehui, Liu, An, Li, Zhixu, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Wei and Zhao, Lei (2020). Extracting representative user subset of social networks towards user characteristics and topological features. World Wide Web, 23 (5), 2903-2931. doi: 10.1007/s11280-020-00828-5

Extracting representative user subset of social networks towards user characteristics and topological features

2020

Journal Article

Exploiting cross-session information for session-based recommendation with graph neural networks

Qiu, Ruihong, Huang, Zi, Li, Jingjing and Yin, Hongzhi (2020). Exploiting cross-session information for session-based recommendation with graph neural networks. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 38 (3) 22, 1-23. doi: 10.1145/3382764

Exploiting cross-session information for session-based recommendation with graph neural networks

2020

Journal Article

Social boosted recommendation with folded bipartite network embedding

Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Wang, Weiqing, Li, Xue and Hu, Xia (2020). Social boosted recommendation with folded bipartite network embedding. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34 (2), 914-926. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2020.2982878

Social boosted recommendation with folded bipartite network embedding

2020

Journal Article

Group-based recurrent neural networks for POI recommendation

Li, Guohui, Chen, Qi, Zheng, Bolong, Yin, Hongzhi, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Zhou, Xiaofang (2020). Group-based recurrent neural networks for POI recommendation. ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science, 1 (1) 3, 1-18. doi: 10.1145/3343037

Group-based recurrent neural networks for POI recommendation

2020

Journal Article

Cluster query: a new query pattern on temporal knowledge graph

Huang, Jinjing, Chen, Wei, Liu, An, Wang, Weiqing, Yin, Hongzhi and Zhao, Lei (2020). Cluster query: a new query pattern on temporal knowledge graph. World Wide Web, 23 (2), 755-779. doi: 10.1007/s11280-019-00754-1

Cluster query: a new query pattern on temporal knowledge graph

2020

Journal Article

Local variational feature-based similarity models for recommending top-N new items

Chen, Yifan, Wang, Yang, Zhao, Xiang, Yin, Hongzhi, Markov, Ilya and De Rijke, Maarten (2020). Local variational feature-based similarity models for recommending top-N new items. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 38 (2) 12, 1-33. doi: 10.1145/3372154

Local variational feature-based similarity models for recommending top-N new items

2020

Journal Article

SGPM: a privacy protected approach of time-constrained graph pattern matching in cloud

Huang, Jinjing, Chen, Wei, Li, Zhixu, Zhao, Pengpeng, Wang, Weiqing, Yin, Hongzhi and Zhao, Lei (2020). SGPM: a privacy protected approach of time-constrained graph pattern matching in cloud. World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems, 23 (1), 519-547. doi: 10.1007/s11280-020-00784-0

SGPM: a privacy protected approach of time-constrained graph pattern matching in cloud

2020

Journal Article

Few-shot deep adversarial learning for video-based person re-identification

Wu, Lin, Wang, Yang, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Meng and Shao, Ling (2020). Few-shot deep adversarial learning for video-based person re-identification. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 29 8839731, 1233-1245. doi: 10.1109/tip.2019.2940684

Few-shot deep adversarial learning for video-based person re-identification

2020

Conference Publication

GCN-based user representation learning for unifying robust recommendation and fraudster detection

Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Hung, Quoc Viet Nguyen, Huang, Zi and Cui, Lizhen (2020). GCN-based user representation learning for unifying robust recommendation and fraudster detection. SIGIR '20: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Online, July 2020. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401165

GCN-based user representation learning for unifying robust recommendation and fraudster detection

2020

Conference Publication

EPARS: Early prediction of at-risk students with online and offline learning behaviors

Yang, Yu, Wen, Zhiyuan, Cao, Jiannong, Shen, Jiaxing, Yin, Hongzhi and Zhou, Xiaofang (2020). EPARS: Early prediction of at-risk students with online and offline learning behaviors. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Jeju, South Korea, 24-27 September 2020. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-59416-9_1

EPARS: Early prediction of at-risk students with online and offline learning behaviors

2020

Conference Publication

Adaptive network alignment with unsupervised and multi-order convolutional networks

Trung, Huynh Thanh, Van Vinh, Tong, Tam, Nguyen Thanh, Yin, Hongzhi, Weidlich, Matthias and Viet Hung, Nguyen Quoc (2020). Adaptive network alignment with unsupervised and multi-order convolutional networks. 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Dallas, TX, United States, 20-24 April 2020. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE48307.2020.00015

Adaptive network alignment with unsupervised and multi-order convolutional networks

2020

Conference Publication

Decentralized embedding framework for large-scale networks

Imran, Mubashir, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Shao, Yingxia, Zhang, Xiangliang and Zhou, Xiaofang (2020). Decentralized embedding framework for large-scale networks. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Jeju, South Korea, 24-27 September 2020. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-59419-0_26

Decentralized embedding framework for large-scale networks

2020

Conference Publication

Graph embeddings for one-pass processing of heterogeneous queries

Duong, Chi Thang, Yin, Hongzhi, Hoang, Dung, Nguyen, Minn Hung, Weidlich, Matthias, Hung Nguyen, Quoc Viet and Aberer, Karl (2020). Graph embeddings for one-pass processing of heterogeneous queries. 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Dallas, TX, United States, 20-24 April 2020. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE48307.2020.00222

Graph embeddings for one-pass processing of heterogeneous queries

Current funding

  • 2026 - 2029
    Advancing Federated Learning for Unified Urban Spatio-Temporal Predictions
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2025 - 2028
    Revolutionise Australian Strata Management with Large Language Models
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2025 - 2028
    Building an Aussie Information Recommendation System You Can Trust
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2027
    Privacy-Aware and Personalised Explanation Overlays for Recommender Systems (ARC Discovery Project administered by Griffith University)
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2026
    Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2026
    ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience
    ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2022 - 2023
    A Secured Smart Sensing and Industry Analytics Facility for Industry 4.0 (ARC LIEF application led by University of Technology Sydney)
    University of Technology Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Developing a Privacy-Preserving and Energy-Efficient Mobile Recommender System Architecture
    UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2024
    Challenging Big Data for Scalable, Robust and Real-time Recommendations
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2020
    Monitoring Social Events for User Online Behaviour Analytics
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2018
    Mobile User Modeling for Intelligent Recommendation
    ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Hongzhi Yin is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Building an Trustworthy Information Recommendation System

    Build a trustworthy information recommender system by spearheading the design and development of cutting-edge LLM4Rec techniques, misinformation filters, and privacy protection mechanisms.

    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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    LLM-enhanced Recommender System

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Reliable Multimodal Recommender Systems

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Chain-of-User-Thought for Personalized Agent in Cyber World

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Revolutionise Australian Strata Management with Large Language Models

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Integrated high-throughput material synthesis and characterisation system

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Jingwei Hou

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Scalable and Generalizable Graph Neural Networks

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Sustainable On-Device Recommender Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Lightweight Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Robustness Verification of Neural Network

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Naipeng Dong

Completed supervision

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