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 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 (2022-2024) and 2024 Computer Science in Australia Leader Award, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Data Mining (2022-2024). 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 over 350+ papers with an H-index of 83 (22000+ citations), including 280+ CCF A/CORE A* and 70+ CCF B/CORE A, such as ICML, KDD, SIGIR, WWW, ACL, WSDM, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, NeurIPS, 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 250+. 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 two PhD scholarships.

Latest News

  1. [23 May 2025] I was ranked #52 in Australia among Best Scientists for 2025 and have also been recognized with the Computer Science Leader Award for 2025 in Research.com.

  2. [15 May 2025] We have four research papers and one applied data science paper accepted by the top conference KDD 2025 (CORE A*, CCF A).

  3. [11 May 2025] Our research work "RobGC: Towards Robust Graph Condensation" has been accepted by the top journal TKDE 2025 (CORE A*, CCF A). Congratulations to Xinyi.

  4. [1 May 2025] Our research work "Enhancing Treatment Effect Estimation via Active Learning: A Counterfactual Covering Perspective" has been accepted by the top conference ICML 2025 (CORE A*, CCF A). Congratulations to Hechuan.

  5. [4 April 2025] We have four full research papers accepted by the top conference SIGIR 2025 (CORE A*, CCF A).

  6. [2 April 2025] Congratulations to the four new doctors, Dr. Wei Yuan, Dr. Jing Long, Dr. Yuting Sun and Dr. Ruiqi Zheng, who were awarded their PhD by The University of Queensland.

  7. [10 March 2025] Our survey paper "A Survey on Point-of-Interest Recommendation: Models, Architectures, and Security " has been accepted by TKDE 2025 (CORE A*, CCF A).

  8. [21 Feb 2025] Our joint foundation work "On the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models– Guideline, Assessment, and Perspective" has been released on both arXiv and Hugging Face. This research is the result of a broad collaboration with leading universities and research institutions worldwide, including the University of Notre Dame, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Waterloo, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, University of California, Santa Barbara, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, The University of Queensland and more.

  9. [20 Feb 2025] I have been recognized as a Highly Ranked Scholar - Prior 5 Years (top 0.05% of all scholars) and #15 in Data Mining on ScholarGPS.

  10. [26 January 2025] Our survey paper "Graph Condensation: A Survey" has been accepted by TKDE 2025 (CORE A*, CCF A).

  11. [20 January 2025] We have three full research papers and one demo paper accepted by the top conference WWW 2025 (CORE A*, CCF A).

  12. [18 January 2025] We have two research papers accepted by AAAI 2025 (CCF A, CORE A*) for Oral Presentation.

Availability

Professor Hongzhi Yin is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

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

Research interests

  • Recommender System and User Modeling

  • Graph Mining and Embedding

  • Decentralized and Federated Learning

  • Edge Machine Learning and Applications

  • Trustworthy Machine Learning and Applications

  • QA, Chatbot and Information Retrieval

  • Time Series and Sequence Mining and Prediction

  • Spatiotemporal Data Mining

  • 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.

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361 works between 2011 and 2025
All (361) Journal Article (140) Book Chapter (4) Conference Publication (209) Book (2) Edited Outputs (6)

321 - 340 of 361 works

2017

Conference Publication

Mobi-SAGE: A sparse additive generative model for mobile app recommendation

Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Liang, Wang, Weiqing, Du, Xingzhong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Zhou, Xiaofang (2017). Mobi-SAGE: A sparse additive generative model for mobile app recommendation. IEEE 33rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Diego, CA, United States, 19-22 April 2017. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2017.43

Mobi-SAGE: A sparse additive generative model for mobile app recommendation

2017

Conference Publication

An integrated model for effective saliency prediction

Sun, Xiaoshuai, Huang, Zi, Yin, Hongzhi and Shen, Heng Tao (2017). An integrated model for effective saliency prediction. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA, United States, 4-9 February 2017. Palo Alto, CA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

An integrated model for effective saliency prediction

2017

Conference Publication

A time and sentiment unification model for personalized recommendation

Wang, Qinyong , Yin, Hongzhi and Wang, Hao (2017). A time and sentiment unification model for personalized recommendation. Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM, Beijing, China, 7-9 July 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-63564-4 8

A time and sentiment unification model for personalized recommendation

2017

Conference Publication

Influenced nodes discovery in temporal contact network

Huang, Jinjing, Lin, Tianqiao, Liu, An, Li, Zhixu, Yin, Hongzhi and Zhao, Lei (2017). Influenced nodes discovery in temporal contact network. 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2017, Puschino, Russia, 7-11 October 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68783-4_32

Influenced nodes discovery in temporal contact network

2017

Conference Publication

People opinion topic model: opinion based user clustering in social networks

Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Xue, Wang, Meng, Chen, Weitong and Chen, Tong (2017). People opinion topic model: opinion based user clustering in social networks. International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017. Geneva, Switzerland: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. doi: 10.1145/3041021.3051159

People opinion topic model: opinion based user clustering in social networks

2017

Conference Publication

SPTF: A scalable probabilistic tensor factorization model for semantic-aware behavior prediction

Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu, Sun, Xiaoshuai, Wang, Hao, Wang, Yang and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2017). SPTF: A scalable probabilistic tensor factorization model for semantic-aware behavior prediction. 17th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 18-21, 2017. New York, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . doi: 10.1109/ICDM.2017.68

SPTF: A scalable probabilistic tensor factorization model for semantic-aware behavior prediction

2017

Conference Publication

Graph-based metric embedding for next POI recommendation

Xie, Min, Yin, Hongzhi, Xu, Fanjiang, Wang, Hao and Zhou, Xiaofang (2017). Graph-based metric embedding for next POI recommendation. 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Shanghai, China, 8 - 10 November 2016. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-48743-4_17

Graph-based metric embedding for next POI recommendation

2017

Conference Publication

A location-sentiment-aware recommender system for both home-town and out-of-town users

Wang, Hao , Fu, Yanmei , Wang, Qinyong , Yin, Hongzhi , Du, Changying and Xiong, Hui (2017). A location-sentiment-aware recommender system for both home-town and out-of-town users. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Halifax, NS, Canada, 13-17 August 2017. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3097983.3098122

A location-sentiment-aware recommender system for both home-town and out-of-town users

2017

Conference Publication

Retaining data from streams of social platforms with minimal regret

Tam, Nguyen Thanh, Weidlich, Matthias, Thang, Duong Chi, Yin, Hongzhi and Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet (2017). Retaining data from streams of social platforms with minimal regret. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, Melbourne, Australia, 19-25 August 2017. Melbourne, Australia: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2017/397

Retaining data from streams of social platforms with minimal regret

2017

Conference Publication

Group recommender model based on preference interaction

Zheng, Wei, Li, Bohan, Wang, Yanan, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Xue, Guan, Donghai and Qin, Xiaolin (2017). Group recommender model based on preference interaction. 13th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2017, Singapore, Singapore, 5–6 November 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69179-4_10

Group recommender model based on preference interaction

2016

Journal Article

Joint modeling of user check-in behaviors for real-time point-of-interest recommendation

Yin, Hongzhi, Cui, Bin, Zhou, Xiaofang, Wang, Weiqing, Huang, Zi and Sadiq, Shazia (2016). Joint modeling of user check-in behaviors for real-time point-of-interest recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 35 (2) 2873055, 1-44. doi: 10.1145/2873055

Joint modeling of user check-in behaviors for real-time point-of-interest recommendation

2016

Journal Article

A fast sketch-based approach of top-k closeness centrality search on large networks

Shao, Y.-X., Cui, B., Ma, L. and Yin, H.-Z. (2016). A fast sketch-based approach of top-k closeness centrality search on large networks. Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers, 39 (10), 1965-1978. doi: 10.11897/SP.J.1016.2016.01965

A fast sketch-based approach of top-k closeness centrality search on large networks

2016

Journal Article

A spatial-temporal topic model for the semantic annotation of POIs in LBSNs

He, Tieke, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Zhenyu, Zhou, Xiaofang, Sadiq, Shazia and Luo, Bin (2016). A spatial-temporal topic model for the semantic annotation of POIs in LBSNs. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 8 (1) 12, 1-24. doi: 10.1145/2905373

A spatial-temporal topic model for the semantic annotation of POIs in LBSNs

2016

Journal Article

Adapting to user interest drift for POI recommendation

Yin, Hongzhi, Zhou, Xiaofang, Cui, Bin, Wang, Hao, Zheng, Kai and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2016). Adapting to user interest drift for POI recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 28 (10) 7491346, 2566-2581. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2016.2580511

Adapting to user interest drift for POI recommendation

2016

Conference Publication

Expert team finding for review assignment

Yin, Hongzhi, Cui, Bin, Lu, Hua and Zhao, Lei (2016). Expert team finding for review assignment. Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), Hsinchu, Taiwan, 25-27 November 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/TAAI.2016.7932314

Expert team finding for review assignment

2016

Conference Publication

LSIF: a system for large-scale information flow detection based on topic-related semantic similarity measurement

Zhao, Meng, Wang, Hao, Cao, Liangliang, Zhang, Chen, Yin, Hongzhi and Xu, Fanjiang (2016). LSIF: a system for large-scale information flow detection based on topic-related semantic similarity measurement. 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), Singapore, 6-9 December 2016. Los Alamitos, CA United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2015.2

LSIF: a system for large-scale information flow detection based on topic-related semantic similarity measurement

2016

Book

Spatio-temporal recommendation in social media

Yin, Hongzhi and Cui, Bin (2016). Spatio-temporal recommendation in social media. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-0748-4

Spatio-temporal recommendation in social media

2016

Conference Publication

Discovering interpretable geo-social communities for user behavior prediction

Yin, Hongzhi, Hu, Zhiting, Zhou, Xiaofang, Wang, Hao, Zheng, Kai, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen and Sadiq, Shazia (2016). Discovering interpretable geo-social communities for user behavior prediction. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Helsinki, Finland, 16-20 May 2016. Washington, DC United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2016.7498303

Discovering interpretable geo-social communities for user behavior prediction

2016

Conference Publication

Learning graph-based POI embedding for location-based recommendation

Xie, Min, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Hao, Xu, Fanjiang, Chen, Weitong and Wang, Sen (2016). Learning graph-based POI embedding for location-based recommendation. 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016, Indianapolis, IN, United States, 24 - 28 October 2016. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2983323.2983711

Learning graph-based POI embedding for location-based recommendation

2016

Conference Publication

SPORE: a sequential personalized spatial item recommender system

Wang, Weiqing, Yin, Hongzhi, Sadiq, Shazia, Chen, Ling, Xie, Min and Zhou, Xiaofang (2016). SPORE: a sequential personalized spatial item recommender system. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Helsinki, Finland, 16-20 May 2016. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2016.7498304

SPORE: a sequential personalized spatial item recommender system

Current funding

  • 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

    Graph Condensation for Real-World Graph Representation at Scale

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Junliang Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    LLM-enhanced Recommender System

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Integrated high-throughput material synthesis and characterisation system

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Jingwei Hou

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Lightweight Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Scalable and Generalizable Graph Neural Networks

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Sustainable On-Device Recommender Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen, Dr Junliang Yu

  • 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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