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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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2022
Conference Publication
PipA!ack: poisoning federated recommender systems for manipulating item promotion
Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Cui, Lizhen (2022). PipA!ack: poisoning federated recommender systems for manipulating item promotion. WSDM '22: Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual, AZ, United States, 21 - 25 February 2022. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3488560.3498386
2022
Conference Publication
Contrastive learning for representation degeneration problem in sequential recommendation
Qiu, Ruihong, Huang, Zi, Yin, Hongzhi and Wang, Zijian (2022). Contrastive learning for representation degeneration problem in sequential recommendation. WSDM '22: Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual, AZ, United States, 21 - 25 February 2022. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3488560.3498433
2022
Journal Article
HFUL: a hybrid framework for user account linkage across location-aware social networks
Chen, Wei, Wang, Weiqing, Yin, Hongzhi, Zhao, Lei and Zhou, Xiaofang (2022). HFUL: a hybrid framework for user account linkage across location-aware social networks. VLDB Journal, 32 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1007/s00778-022-00730-8
2022
Journal Article
An integrated first principal and deep learning approach for modeling nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater treatment plants
Li, Kaili, Duan, Haoran, Liu, Linfeng, Qiu, Ruihong, van den Akker, Ben, Ni, Bing-Jie, Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Yuan, Zhiguo and Ye, Liu (2022). An integrated first principal and deep learning approach for modeling nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater treatment plants. Environmental Science and Technology, 56 (4) acs.est.1c05020, 2816-2826. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05020
2022
Journal Article
Introduction to the Special Issue on Intelligent Trajectory Analytics: Part I
Zheng, Kai, Li, Yong, Shahabi, Cyrus and Yin, Hongzhi (2022). Introduction to the Special Issue on Intelligent Trajectory Analytics: Part I. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 13 (1) 1, 1-2. doi: 10.1145/3495230
2022
Journal Article
Passenger mobility prediction via representation learning for dynamic directed and weighted graphs
Wang, Yuandong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Liu, Chunyang, Wang, Ben, Wo, Tianyu and Xu, Jie (2022). Passenger mobility prediction via representation learning for dynamic directed and weighted graphs. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 13 (1) 2, 1-25. doi: 10.1145/3446344
2022
Journal Article
Hierarchical hyperedge embedding-based representation learning for group recommendation
Guo, Lei, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Zhang, Xiangliang and Zheng, Kai (2022). Hierarchical hyperedge embedding-based representation learning for group recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40 (1) 3, 1-27. doi: 10.1145/3457949
2022
Journal Article
Personalized on-device e-health analytics with decentralized block coordinate descent
Ye, Guanhua, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Xu, Miao, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Song, Jiangning (2022). Personalized on-device e-health analytics with decentralized block coordinate descent. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26 (6), 1-1. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2022.3140455
2022
Journal Article
LECF: recommendation via learnable edge collaborative filtering
Xiao, Shitao, Shao, Yingxia, Li, Yawen, Yin, Hongzhi, Shen, Yanyan and Cui, Bin (2022). LECF: recommendation via learnable edge collaborative filtering. Science China Information Sciences, 65 (1) 112101. doi: 10.1007/s11432-020-3274-6
2022
Journal Article
Learning holistic interactions in LBSNs with high-order, dynamic, and multi-role contexts
Huynh, Thanh Trung, Tong, Vinh Van, Nguyen, Thanh Tam, Jo, Jun, Yin, Hongzhi and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2022). Learning holistic interactions in LBSNs with high-order, dynamic, and multi-role contexts. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, PP (99), 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2022.3150792
2022
Journal Article
Preface - Special Issue on Misinformation on the Web
Aberer, Karl, Katakis, Ioannis, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2022). Preface - Special Issue on Misinformation on the Web. Information Systems, 103 101867, 101867. doi: 10.1016/j.is.2021.101867
2022
Conference Publication
Hyperbolic personalized tag recommendation
Zhao, Weibin, Zhang, Aoran, Shang, Lin, Yu, Yonghong, Zhang, Li, Wang, Can, Chen, Jiajun and Yin, Hongzhi (2022). Hyperbolic personalized tag recommendation. 27th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA-2022), Virtual , 11-14 April 2022. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-00126-0_14
2022
Conference Publication
Switchable online knowledge distillation
Qian, Biao, Wang, Yang, Yin, Hongzhi, Hong, Richang and Wang, Meng (2022). Switchable online knowledge distillation. 17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 23-27, 2022. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20083-0_27
2022
Journal Article
DeHIN: a decentralized framework for embedding large-scale heterogeneous information networks
Imran, Mubashir, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi and Zheng, Kai (2022). DeHIN: a decentralized framework for embedding large-scale heterogeneous information networks. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, PP (99), 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2022.3141951
2021
Journal Article
Interpretable signed link prediction with signed infomax hyperbolic graph
Luo, Yadan, Huang, Zi, Chen, Hongxu, Yang, Yang, Yin, Hongzhi and Baktashmotlagh, Mahsa (2021). Interpretable signed link prediction with signed infomax hyperbolic graph. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, PP (99), 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2021.3139035
2021
Journal Article
Scalable robust graph embedding with Spark
Duong, Chi Thang, Hoang, Trung Dung, Yin, Hongzhi, Weidlich, Matthias, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Aberer, Karl (2021). Scalable robust graph embedding with Spark. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 15 (4), 914-922. doi: 10.14778/3503585.3503599
2021
Journal Article
Towards Revenue Maximization with Popular and Profitable Products
Gan, Wensheng, Chen, Guoting, Yin, Hongzhi, Fournier-Viger, Philippe, Chen, Chien-Ming and Yu, Philip S. (2021). Towards Revenue Maximization with Popular and Profitable Products. ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science, 2 (4), 1-21. doi: 10.1145/3488058
2021
Conference Publication
Self-supervised graph co-training for session-based recommendation
Cui, Lizhen, Shao, Yingxia, Yu, Junliang, Yin, Hongzhi and Xia, Xin (2021). Self-supervised graph co-training for session-based recommendation. CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual, 1-5 November 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482388
2021
Conference Publication
A knowledge-aware recommender with attention-enhanced dynamic convolutional network
Liu, Yi, Li, Bohan, Zang, Yalei, Li, Aoran and Yin, Hongzhi (2021). A knowledge-aware recommender with attention-enhanced dynamic convolutional network. CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual, 1-5 November 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482406
2021
Conference Publication
Lightweight self-attentive sequential recommendation
Li, Yang, Chen, Tong, Zhang, Peng-Fei and Yin, Hongzhi (2021). Lightweight self-attentive sequential recommendation. CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual, 1-5 November 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482448
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
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
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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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Secure 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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