Recent News/Activities

• I am looking for self-motivated PhD students (fully funded). If you are interested, please email me.
  I read every student's CV while I am only able to reply to some of them due to large volume.
• 11/2021: Our paper RxNet won the best paper award at CIKM'21.
• 09/2021: One paper was accepted to NeurIPS'21.
• 08/2021: KDD'21 Tutorial - Data Efficient Learning on Graphs
• Service: AAAI'22 SPC, NSF Panel'21, KDD'22 Workflow Co-Chair

Research Interests

• General: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining
• Recent Focuses: Graph Mining & Learning, Recommender Systems, Time Series & Spatial-Temporal Learning
• Applications: Social & Knowledge Systems, Cybersecurity, Healthcare & Food

Publications

• Full List
• Google Scholar
• DBLP

PhD Students

• Brandeis
  Chunhui Zhang (NEU BE, Since Fall 2021)
  Jiele Wu (BIT BE, Since Fall 2021)
• Notre Dame
  Zhichun Guo (FDU BE, Since Fall 2019)
  Yiyue Qian (UCL MS, Since Fall 2020)

Teaching

• Graph Mining
• Deep Learning

Service

• Journal Editor
  Big Data, Frontiers in Big Data
• Conference PC Member
  NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.
• Journal Reviewer
  TKDE, TOIS, TKDD, TNNLS, TBD, etc.

Awards/Honors

• Best Paper Award, CIKM, 2021
• Provost Research Award, Brandeis, 2021
• Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award, Notre Dame, 2020
• Best Paper Award Shortlist, WWW, 2019
• Best Student Paper Award, APWeb/WAIM, 2016

Fundings

• Brandeis Provost Research Grant, 2021 - 2022
• Brandeis Startup Grant, 2020 - 2026