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)

181 - 200 of 361 works

2021

Conference Publication

DA-GCN: a domain-aware attentive graph convolution network for shared-account cross-domain sequential recommendation

Guo, Lei, Tang, Li, Chen, Tong, Zhu, Lei, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2021). DA-GCN: a domain-aware attentive graph convolution network for shared-account cross-domain sequential recommendation. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada, 19-27 August 2021. San Francisco, CA, United States: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2021/342

DA-GCN: a domain-aware attentive graph convolution network for shared-account cross-domain sequential recommendation

2021

Conference Publication

Where are we in embedding spaces?

Zhang, Sixiao, Chen, Hongxu, Ming, Xiao, Cui, Lizhen, Yin, Hongzhi and Xu, Guandong (2021). Where are we in embedding spaces?. KDD '21: 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Singapore, Singapore, 14 - 18 August 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3447548.3467421

Where are we in embedding spaces?

2021

Conference Publication

Learning to ask appropriate questions in conversational recommendation

Ren, Xuhui, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Wang, Hao, Huang, Zi and Zheng, Kai (2021). Learning to ask appropriate questions in conversational recommendation. SIGIR '21: Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, 11-15 July 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3404835.3462839

Learning to ask appropriate questions in conversational recommendation

2021

Conference Publication

Decoupling representation learning and classification for GNN-based anomaly detection

Wang, Yanling, Zhang, Jing, Guo, Shasha, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Cuiping and Chen, Hong (2021). Decoupling representation learning and classification for GNN-based anomaly detection. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual, 11-15 July 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3404835.3462944

Decoupling representation learning and classification for GNN-based anomaly detection

2021

Conference Publication

Privacy protection in deep multi-modal retrieval

Zhang, Peng-Fei, Li, Yang, Huang, Zi and Yin, Hongzhi (2021). Privacy protection in deep multi-modal retrieval. 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual, 11-15 July 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3404835.3462837

Privacy protection in deep multi-modal retrieval

2021

Conference Publication

Enhancing domain-level and user-level adaptivity in diversified recommendation

Liang, Yile, Qian, Tieyun, Li, Qing and Yin, Hongzhi (2021). Enhancing domain-level and user-level adaptivity in diversified recommendation. SIGIR '21: Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, 11-15 July 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3404835.3462957

Enhancing domain-level and user-level adaptivity in diversified recommendation

2021

Journal Article

Utility mining across multi-dimensional sequences

Gan, Wensheng, Lin, Jerry Chun-Wei, Zhang, Jiexiong, Yin, Hongzhi, Fournier-Viger, Philippe, Chao, Han-Chieh and Yu, Philip S. (2021). Utility mining across multi-dimensional sequences. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 15 (5) 3446938, 1-24. doi: 10.1145/3446938

Utility mining across multi-dimensional sequences

2021

Conference Publication

Self-supervised hypergraph convolutional networks for session-based recommendation

Xia, Xin, Yin, Hongzhi, Yu, Junliang, Wang, Qinyong, Cui, Lizhen and Zhang, Xiangliang (2021). Self-supervised hypergraph convolutional networks for session-based recommendation. Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21), Virtual, 2-9 February 2021. Palo Alto, CA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Self-supervised hypergraph convolutional networks for session-based recommendation

2021

Conference Publication

Self-Supervised Hypergraph Convolutional Networks for Session-based Recommendation

Xia, Xin, Yin, Hongzhi, Yu, Junliang, Wang, Qinyong, Cui, Lizhen and Zhang, Xiangliang (2021). Self-Supervised Hypergraph Convolutional Networks for Session-based Recommendation. The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21), Online, 2–9 February 2021. Washington, DC United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v35i5.16578

Self-Supervised Hypergraph Convolutional Networks for Session-based Recommendation

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2021

Conference Publication

Self-supervised multi-channel hypergraph convolutional network for social recommendation

Yu, Junliang, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Jundong, Wang, Qinyong, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet and Zhang, Xiangliang (2021). Self-supervised multi-channel hypergraph convolutional network for social recommendation. WWW '21: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3449844

Self-supervised multi-channel hypergraph convolutional network for social recommendation

2021

Conference Publication

Adapting to context-aware knowledge in natural conversation for multi-turn response selection

Zhang, Chen, Wang, Hao, Jiang, Feijun and Yin, Hongzhi (2021). Adapting to context-aware knowledge in natural conversation for multi-turn response selection. WWW '21: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3449902

Adapting to context-aware knowledge in natural conversation for multi-turn response selection

2021

Conference Publication

Multi-level hyperedge distillation for social linking prediction on sparsely observed networks

Sun, Xiangguo, Yin, Hongzhi, Liu, Bo, Chen, Hongxu, Meng, Qing, Han, Wang and Cao, Jiuxin (2021). Multi-level hyperedge distillation for social linking prediction on sparsely observed networks. WWW '21: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3449912

Multi-level hyperedge distillation for social linking prediction on sparsely observed networks

2021

Conference Publication

Graph embedding for recommendation against attribute inference attacks

Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi, Cui, Lizhen and Zhang, Xiangliang (2021). Graph embedding for recommendation against attribute inference attacks. WWW '21: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-22 April 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3449813

Graph embedding for recommendation against attribute inference attacks

2021

Conference Publication

Gallat: A spatiotemporal graph attention network for passenger demand prediction

Wang, Yuandong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Liu, Chunyang, Wang, Ben, Wo, Tianyu and Xu, Jie (2021). Gallat: A spatiotemporal graph attention network for passenger demand prediction. 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Chania, Greece, 19-22 April 2021. Washington, DC USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00212

Gallat: A spatiotemporal graph attention network for passenger demand prediction

2021

Conference Publication

Reliable recommendation with review-level explanations

Lyu, Yanzhang, Yin, Hongzhi, Liu, Jun, Liu, Mengyue, Liu, Huan and Deng, Shizhuo (2021). Reliable recommendation with review-level explanations. 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Chania, Greece, 19-22 April 2021. Washington, DC USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00137

Reliable recommendation with review-level explanations

2021

Conference Publication

DDHH: A decentralized deep learning framework for large-scale heterogeneous networks

Imran, Mubashir, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi, Zhang, Xiangliang and Zheng, Kai (2021). DDHH: A decentralized deep learning framework for large-scale heterogeneous networks. 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Chania, Greece, 19-22 April 2021. Washington, DC USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00196

DDHH: A decentralized deep learning framework for large-scale heterogeneous networks

2021

Conference Publication

Entity alignment for knowledge graphs with multi-order convolutional networks (extended abstract)

Tam, Nguyen Thanh, Trung, Huynh Thanh, Yin, Hongzhi, Van Vinh, Tong, Sakong, Darnbi, Zheng, Bolong and Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet (2021). Entity alignment for knowledge graphs with multi-order convolutional networks (extended abstract). 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Chania, Greece, 19-22 April 2021. Washington, DC USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00247

Entity alignment for knowledge graphs with multi-order convolutional networks (extended abstract)

2021

Journal Article

Disease prediction via graph neural networks

Sun, Zhenchao, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen and Yang, Fan (2021). Disease prediction via graph neural networks. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 25 (3) 9122573, 818-826. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2020.3004143

Disease prediction via graph neural networks

2021

Journal Article

An integrated model based on deep multimodal and rank learning for point-of-interest recommendation

Liao, Jianxin, Liu, Tongcun, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Wang, Jingyu and Wang, Yulong (2021). An integrated model based on deep multimodal and rank learning for point-of-interest recommendation. World Wide Web, 24 (2), 631-655. doi: 10.1007/s11280-021-00865-8

An integrated model based on deep multimodal and rank learning for point-of-interest recommendation

2021

Journal Article

Efficient and effective multi-modal queries through heterogeneous network embedding

Duong, Chi Thang, Nguyen, Tam Thanh, Yin, Hongzhi, Weidlich, Matthias, Mai, Son, Aberer, Karl and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2021). Efficient and effective multi-modal queries through heterogeneous network embedding. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34 (11), 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2021.3052871

Efficient and effective multi-modal queries through heterogeneous network embedding

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

    Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Joint Feature Learning for Recommender System

    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

    Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices

    Principal 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

    Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Sustainable On-Device Recommender Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rocky Chen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Causal Analysis for Decision Support in Public Health

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq, Dr Rocky Chen

  • 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

    Integrated high-throughput material synthesis and characterisation system

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Jingwei Hou

Completed supervision

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