Overview
Background
Rocky Tong Chen is currently a Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow with the Data Science Discipline, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. His research has been focused on developing accurate, efficient, and trustworthy data mining solutions to discover actionable patterns and intelligence from large-scale user data to facilitate prediction and recommendation in a wide range of domains. To date, he has published 70+ peer-reviewed papers in the most prestigious conferences (e.g., KDD, SIGIR, WWW, ICDM, ICDE, AAAI and IJCAI) and journals (e.g., VLDBJ, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, ACM TOIS and WWWJ). His publications have won 3 Best Paper Awards, 1 Best Paper Nomination, and 2 Travel Awards.
Availability
- Dr Rocky Chen is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Software Engineering, Northwest A&F University (西北农林科技大学)
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Data Mining
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Recommender Systems
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Predictive Analytics
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Machine Learning
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Health Informatics
Works
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2022
Journal Article
Multiscale adaptive multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis-based source identification of synchrophasor data
Cui, Yi, Bai, Feifei, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Dart, David, Zillmann, Matthew and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2022). Multiscale adaptive multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis-based source identification of synchrophasor data. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 13 (6), 1-4. doi: 10.1109/tsg.2022.3207066
2022
Conference Publication
Are Graph Augmentations Necessary? : Simple Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation
Yu, Junliang, Yin, Hongzhi, Xia, Xin, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2022). Are Graph Augmentations Necessary? : Simple Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation. SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11 - 15 July 2022. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531937
2022
Conference Publication
Thinking inside The Box : Learning Hypercube Representations for Group Recommendation
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Long, Jing, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Wang, Yang and Wang, Meng (2022). Thinking inside The Box : Learning Hypercube Representations for Group Recommendation. SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11 - 15 July 2022. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3477495.3532066
2022
Journal Article
Integrating crop growth model and radiative transfer model to improve estimation of crop traits based on deep learning
Chen, Qiaomin, Zheng, Bangyou, Chen, Tong and Chapman, Scott C. (2022). Integrating crop growth model and radiative transfer model to improve estimation of crop traits based on deep learning. Journal of Experimental Botany, 73 (19), 6558-6574. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erac291
2022
Conference Publication
Uniting heterogeneity, inductiveness, and efficiency for graph representation learning (Extended Abstract)
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Ren, Jie, Huang, Zi, Zhang, Xiangliang and Wang, Hao (2022). Uniting heterogeneity, inductiveness, and efficiency for graph representation learning (Extended Abstract). 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9-12 May 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . doi: 10.1109/icde53745.2022.00143
2022
Conference Publication
Unified question generation with continual lifelong learning
Yuan, Wei, Yin, Hongzhi, He, Tieke, Chen, Tong, Wang, Qiufeng and Cui, Lizhen (2022). Unified question generation with continual lifelong learning. WWW 2022 - ACM Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France, 25-29 April 2022. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3485447.3511930
2022
Conference Publication
Accepted Tutorials at The Web Conference 2022
Tommasini, Riccardo, Roy, Senjuti Basu, Wang, Xuan, Wang, Hongwei, Ji, Heng, Han, Jiawei, Nakov, Preslav, Da San Martino, Giovanni, Alam, Firoj, Schedl, Markus, Lex, Elisabeth, Bharadwaj, Akash, Cormode, Graham, Dojchinovski, Milan, Forberg, Jan, Frey, Johannes, Bonte, Pieter, Balduini, Marco, Belcao, Matteo, Della Valle, Emanuele, Yu, Junliang, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Liu, Haochen, Wang, Yiqi, Fan, Wenqi, Liu, Xiaorui, Dacon, Jamell, Lye, Lingjuan ... He, Xiangnan (2022). Accepted Tutorials at The Web Conference 2022. The Web Conference 2022, Lyon, France, 25 – 29 April 2022. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3487553.3547182
2022
Journal Article
Exploiting positional information for session-based recommendation
Qiu, Ruihong, Huang, Zi, Chen, Tong and Yin, Hongzhi (2022). Exploiting positional information for session-based recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40 (2) 3473339, 1-24. doi: 10.1145/3473339
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
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
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
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
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
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
2021
Journal Article
Quaternion factorization machines: a lightweight solution to intricate feature interaction modeling
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Zhang, Xiangliang, Huang, Zi, Wang, Yang and Wang, Meng (2021). Quaternion factorization machines: a lightweight solution to intricate feature interaction modeling. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, PP (99), 1-14. doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3118706
2021
Journal Article
Fast-adapting and privacy-preserving federated recommender system
Wang, Qinyong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Yu, Junliang, Zhou, Alexander and Zhang, Xiangliang (2021). Fast-adapting and privacy-preserving federated recommender system. The VLDB Journal, 31 (5), 877-896. doi: 10.1007/s00778-021-00700-6
2021
Conference Publication
Learning elastic embeddings for customizing on-device recommenders
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Zheng, Yujia, Huang, Zi, Wang, Yang and Wang, Meng (2021). Learning elastic embeddings for customizing on-device recommenders. 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Virtual (Singapore), 14-18 August 2021. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3447548.3467220
2021
Conference Publication
Discovering collaborative signals for next POI recommendation with iterative Seq2Graph augmentation
Li, Yang, Chen, Tong, Luo, Yadan, Yin, Hongzhi and Huang, Zi (2021). Discovering collaborative signals for next POI recommendation with iterative Seq2Graph augmentation. Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, QC Canada, 19 - 27 August 2021. Palo Alto, CA United States: A A A I Press. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2021/206
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
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Value Measurement of Data Products
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Causal Analysis for Decision Support in Public Health
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq, Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Sustainable On-Device Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Generalizable Graph Neural Networks
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Lightweight Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Data as a Service Architecture
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Quantitative Coupling Relationship between Safety and Efficiency of Mixed Traffic Flow with Connected and Automated vehicles and Human-driven vehicles
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Zuduo Zheng
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Doctor Philosophy
Deep Learning for Graph Data Analysis
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Meeting Challenges on Secure Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Joint Feature Learning for Recommender System
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Establishment LCA method coupled with an activated sludge model for sustainable nitrogen management technology evaluation.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Liu Ye, Dr Shakil Ahmmed
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Doctor Philosophy
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
Completed supervision
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Neural Attentive Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin, Professor Helen Huang
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