Overview
Background
My research focuses on data science methods, including theory and application for various real-world scenarios, such as recommender systems, social network, urban computing, engineering, law, health etc. I am particularly interested into graph neural networks, large language models (LLMs, MLLMs), etc.
- I am actively looking for PhD students (multiple positions) starting in Year 2026. Please visit: https://ruihongqiu.github.io/recruit-phd/
- I am actively looking for thesis/honours/research/RA students yearly. Please visit: https://ruihongqiu.github.io/recruit-thesis/
Availability
- Dr Ruihong Qiu is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Computer Science (Information Technology), The University of Queensland
Research impacts
I have be granted the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC DECRA) 2025-2028.
Works
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2026
Journal Article
WaterRAG: A Multiagent Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework to Support Water Industry Transitions to Net-Zero
Zhai, Mudi, Zeng, Qingyun, Qiu, Ruihong, Li, Jiaying, Zhu, Qixiang, Waite, T. David, Ni, Bing-Jie and Duan, Haoran (2026). WaterRAG: A Multiagent Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework to Support Water Industry Transitions to Net-Zero. Environmental Science & Technology, 60 (15) acs.est.5c15806, 11529-11541. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5c15806
2026
Journal Article
LEXA: Legal case retrieval via graph contrastive learning with contextualised LLM embeddings
Tang, Yanran, Qiu, Ruihong, Liu, Yilun, Li, Xue and Huang, Zi (2026). LEXA: Legal case retrieval via graph contrastive learning with contextualised LLM embeddings. World Wide Web, 29 (2) 20. doi: 10.1007/s11280-026-01407-w
2026
Conference Publication
Does homophily help in robust test-time node classification?
Jiang, Yan, Qiu, Ruihong and Huang, Zi (2026). Does homophily help in robust test-time node classification?. WSDM '26:The Nineteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Boise, ID, United States, 22-26 February 2026. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3773966.3777948
2026
Journal Article
A simple model for long-term prediction of sewage flow in a changing climate
Ge, Jingyu, Li, Jiuling, Qiu, Ruihong, Shi, Tao, Wang, Shuting, Huang, Zi and Yuan, Zhiguo (2026). A simple model for long-term prediction of sewage flow in a changing climate. Water Research, 292 125359, 125359. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2026.125359
2026
Conference Publication
ReaKase-8B: legal case retrieval via knowledge and reasoning representations with LLMs
Tang, Yanran, Qiu, Ruihong, Li, Xue and Huang, Zi (2026). ReaKase-8B: legal case retrieval via knowledge and reasoning representations with LLMs. 36th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Bali, Indonesia, 4-6 December 2025. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-95-6196-4_22
2025
Conference Publication
MARCO: a cooperative knowledge transfer framework for personalized cross-domain recommendations
Xie, Lili, Zhang, Yi, Qiu, Ruihong, Liu, Jiajun and Wang, Sen (2025). MARCO: a cooperative knowledge transfer framework for personalized cross-domain recommendations. 2025 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, Xi'an, China, 7-10 December 2025. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3767695.3769481
2025
Journal Article
Low-cost, data-efficient, on-device soft sensors for sewer flow monitoring—learning from adjacent water level sensors
Lin, Ruozhou, Tian, Wenchong, Qiu, Ruihong, Hu, Lihan and Yuan, Zhiguo (2025). Low-cost, data-efficient, on-device soft sensors for sewer flow monitoring—learning from adjacent water level sensors. Water Research X, 29 100415, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.wroa.2025.100415
2025
Conference Publication
GCondenser: benchmarking graph condensation
Liu, Yilun, Qiu, Ruihong and Huang, Zi (2025). GCondenser: benchmarking graph condensation. CIKM '25: The 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 10-14 November 2025. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3746252.3761654
2025
Conference Publication
DARLR: Dual-agent offline reinforcement learning for recommender systems with dynamic reward
Zhang, Yi, Qiu, Ruihong, Xu, Xuwei, Liu, Jiajun and Wang, Sen (2025). DARLR: Dual-agent offline reinforcement learning for recommender systems with dynamic reward. 48th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-18 July 2025. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3726302.3729942
2025
Conference Publication
Graph condensation: foundations, methods and prospects
Yin, Hongzhi, Gao, Xinyi, Yu, Junliang, Qiu, Ruihong, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Huang, Zi (2025). Graph condensation: foundations, methods and prospects. WWW '25: The ACM Web Conference 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April - 2 May 2025. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3701716.3715862
2025
Conference Publication
Exploring the potential of graph neural networks-based methods for general linear programs
Chuang, Yung-Cheng and Qiu, Ruihong (2025). Exploring the potential of graph neural networks-based methods for general linear programs. 2025 Web Conference-WWW, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April - 2 May 2025. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3701716.3715174
2025
Journal Article
A low-cost soft sensor for sewer flow monitoring — Learning from water level measurements in manholes
Lin, Ruozhou, Qiu, Ruihong, Hu, Lihan, Ding, Yaxin and Yuan, Zhiguo (2025). A low-cost soft sensor for sewer flow monitoring — Learning from water level measurements in manholes. Water Research, 274 123135, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2025.123135
2025
Journal Article
PUMA: efficient continual graph learning for node classification with graph condensation
Liu, Yilun, Qiu, Ruihong, Tang, Yanran, Yin, Hongzhi and Huang, Zi (2025). PUMA: efficient continual graph learning for node classification with graph condensation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 37 (1), 449-461. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2024.3485691
2025
Conference Publication
Beyond static LLM policies: imitation-enhanced reinforcement learning for recommendation
Zhang, Yi, Xie, Lili, Qiu, Ruihong, Liu, Jiajun and Wang, Sen (2025). Beyond static LLM policies: imitation-enhanced reinforcement learning for recommendation. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Washington, DC, United States, 12-15 November 2025. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICDM65498.2025.00098
2025
Conference Publication
GOLD: graph out-of-distribution detection via implicit adversarial latent generation
Wang, Danny, Qiu, Ruihong, Bai, Guangdong and Huang, Zi (2025). GOLD: graph out-of-distribution detection via implicit adversarial latent generation. ICLR 2025: The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, Singapore, Singapore, 24-28 April 2025. Singapore, Singapore: International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR.
2024
Conference Publication
EMIT - event-based masked auto encoding for irregular time series
Patel, Hrishikesh, Qiu, Ruihong, Irwin, Adam, Sadiq, Shazia and Wang, Sen (2024). EMIT - event-based masked auto encoding for irregular time series. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 9-12 December 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icdm59182.2024.00044
2024
Journal Article
Identifying periods impacted by sewer inflow and infiltration using time series anomaly detection
Ge, Jingyu, Li, Jiuling, Qiu, Ruihong, Shi, Tao, Huang, Zi, Liu, Yanchen and Yuan, Zhiguo (2024). Identifying periods impacted by sewer inflow and infiltration using time series anomaly detection. Water Research X, 25 100278, 100278. doi: 10.1016/j.wroa.2024.100278
2024
Conference Publication
ROLeR: effective Reward Shaping in Offline Reinforcement Learning for Recommender Systems
Zhang, Yi, Qiu, Ruihong, Liu, Jiajun and Wang, Sen (2024). ROLeR: effective Reward Shaping in Offline Reinforcement Learning for Recommender Systems. 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Boise, ID USA, 21-25 October 2024. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3627673.3679633
2024
Journal Article
A data-driven method for estimating sewer inflow and infiltration based on temperature and conductivity monitoring
Ge, Jingyu, Li, Jiuling, Qiu, Ruihong, Shi, Tao, Zhang, Chenming, Huang, Zi and Yuan, Zhiguo (2024). A data-driven method for estimating sewer inflow and infiltration based on temperature and conductivity monitoring. Water Research, 261 122002, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.122002
2024
Conference Publication
CaseLink: inductive graph learning for legal case retrieval
Tang, Yanran, Qiu, Ruihong, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Xue and Huang, Zi (2024). CaseLink: inductive graph learning for legal case retrieval. 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657693
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Ruihong Qiu is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Advancing Reasoning Ability in Diffusion Large Language Models
Investigate the development of enabling diffusion large language models to achieve advanced reasoning ability.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Multimodal Learning for Advanced Graph Data Analysis
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang, Dr Yujun Cai
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Doctor Philosophy
Fairness in Graph Representation Learning Models
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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Doctor Philosophy
Exploring the Trustworthiness of Information Retrieval in the Era of Large Language Models
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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Doctor Philosophy
efficiency oriented multimedia system
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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Doctor Philosophy
Towards Privacy-Preserving and Fairness-Aware Federated Recommendation Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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Doctor Philosophy
Data-Driven Crop Breeding: Enhancing Disease Resistance through Vision-based Digital Phenotyping
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Scott Chapman, Professor Helen Huang, Dr Millicent Smith, Dr Shanice Van Haeften, Associate Professor Sen Wang
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Doctor Philosophy
Diagnostic data analytics for sewer inflow and infiltration
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang, Honorary Professor Zhiguo Yuan
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Doctor Philosophy
Behaviour-Oriented Tracking of Disinformation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Priyanka Singh, Professor Xue Li
Completed supervision
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2026
Doctor Philosophy
Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Practical Decision Making
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jiajun Liu, Associate Professor Sen Wang
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2026
Doctor Philosophy
Aligning Privacy Promises with Practice in Application Ecosystems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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