Dr Rocky Chen
ARC DECRA
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Researcher biography
Rocky Tong Chen is currently a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow with the Data Science Discipline, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 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.
Journal Articles
Gao, Xinyi, Yu, Junliang, Chen, Tong, Ye, Guanhua, Zhang, Wentao and Yin, Hongzhi (2025). Graph condensation: a survey. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 37 (4), 1819-1837. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2025.3535877
Yuan, Wei, Yang, Chaoqun, Qu, Liang, Ye, Guanhua, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2025). Robust federated contrastive recommender system against targeted model poisoning attack. Science China Information Sciences, 68 (4) 140103, 4. doi: 10.1007/s11432-024-4272-y
Tran, Hung Vinh, Chen, Tong, Quoc Viet Hung, Nguyen, Huang, Zi, Cui, Lizhen and Yin, Hongzhi (2025). A thorough performance benchmarking on lightweight embedding-based recommender systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 43 (3) 63, 1-32. doi: 10.1145/3712589
Yuan, Wei, Yang, Chaoqun, Qu, Liang, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet, Ye, Guanhua and Yin, Hongzhi (2025). PTF-FSR: a parameter transmission-free federated sequential recommender system. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 43 (2) 52, 1-24. doi: 10.1145/3708344
Zheng, Shangfei, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Chen, Wei and Zhao, Lei (2025). Do as I can, not as I get: Topology-aware multi-hop reasoning on multi-modal knowledge graphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, PP (99), 1-14. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2025.3546686
Gao, Xinyi, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Ye, Guanhua, Zhang, Wentao and Cui, Bin (2025). RobGC: Towards Robust Graph Condensation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, PP (99), 1-14. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2025.3569629
Yuan, Wei, Yang, Chaoqun, Ye, Guanhua, Chen, Tong, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). FELLAS: enhancing federated sequential recommendation with LLM as external services. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. doi: 10.1145/3709138
Ren, Xuhui, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Cui, Lizhen, Huang, Zi and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Explicit knowledge graph reasoning for conversational recommendation. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 15 (4) 86, 1-21. doi: 10.1145/3637216
Zheng, Ruiqi, Qu, Liang, Chen, Tong, Zheng, Kai, Shi, Yuhui and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Personalized elastic embedding learning for on-device recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (7), 3363-3375. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2024.3361562
Ye, Guanhua, Chen, Tong, Hung Nguyen, Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Heterogeneous decentralised machine unlearning with seed model distillation. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, 9 (3), 608-619. doi: 10.1049/cit2.12281
Chen, Lijian, Yuan, Wei, Chen, Tong, Ye, Guanhua, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Adversarial item promotion on visually-aware recommender systems by guided diffusion. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 42 (6) 156, 1-26. doi: 10.1145/3666088
Wen, Hechuan, Chen, Tong, Chai, Li Kheng, Sadiq, Shazia, Gao, Junbin and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Variational counterfactual prediction under runtime domain corruption. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (5) 10271745, 2271-2284. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2023.3321893
Guo, Lei, Zhang, Jinyu, Tang, Li, Chen, Tong, Zhu, Lei and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Time interval-enhanced graph neural network for shared-account cross-domain sequential recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35 (3), 4002-4016. doi: 10.1109/tnnls.2022.3201533
Yu, Junliang, Xia, Xin, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). XSimGCL: towards extremely simple graph contrastive learning for recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (2), 913-926. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2023.3288135
Yu, Junliang, Yin, Hongzhi, Xia, Xin, Chen, Tong, Li, Jundong and Huang, Zi (2024). Self-supervised learning for recommender systems: a survey. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36 (1), 335-355. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2023.3282907
Ye, Guanhua, Chen, Tong, Li, Yawen, Cui, Lizhen, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Heterogeneous collaborative learning for personalized healthcare analytics via messenger distillation. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 27 (11), 5249-5259. doi: 10.1109/jbhi.2023.3247463
Guo, Lei, Zhang, Jinyu, Chen, Tong, Wang, Xinhua and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Reinforcement learning-enhanced shared-account cross-domain sequential recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35 (7), 7397-7411. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2022.3185101
Sun, Yuting, Chen, Tong and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Spatial-temporal meta-path guided explainable crime prediction. World Wide Web, 26 (4), 2237-2263. doi: 10.1007/s11280-023-01137-3
Imran, Mubashir, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi and Zheng, Kai (2023). DeHIN: a decentralized framework for embedding large-scale heterogeneous information networks. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35 (4), 3645-3657. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2022.3141951
Yang, Yu, Yin, Hongzhi, Cao, Jiannong, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Zhou, Xiaofang and Chen, Lei (2023). Time-Aware Dynamic Graph Embedding for Asynchronous Structural Evolution. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35 (9), 1-14. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2023.3246059
Long, Jing, Chen, Tong, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Decentralized collaborative learning framework for next POI recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41 (3) 66, 66:1-66:25. doi: 10.1145/3555374
Imran, Mubashir, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet, Zhou, Alexander and Zheng, Kai (2023). ReFRS: Resource-efficient Federated Recommender System for dynamic and diversified user preferences. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41 (3) 65, 65:1-65:30 . doi: 10.1145/3560486
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Ren, Jie, Huang, Zi, Zhang, Xiangliang and Wang, Hao (2023). Uniting heterogeneity, inductiveness, and efficiency for graph representation learning. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35 (2), 2103-2117. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2021.3100529
Bai, Feifei, Cui, Yi, Yan, Ruifeng, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Dart, David and Yaghoobi, Jalil (2023). Cost-effective synchrophasor data source authentication based on multiscale adaptive coupling correlation detrended analysis. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 144 108606, 108606. doi: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2022.108606
Sun, Yuting, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). TinyAD: memory-efficient anomaly detection for time series data in industrial IoT. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 20 (1), 824-834. doi: 10.1109/tii.2023.3254668
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Li, Yang, Chen, Tong and Huang, Zi (2021). Attribute-aware explainable complementary clothing recommendation. World Wide Web, 24 (5), 1885-1901. doi: 10.1007/s11280-021-00913-3
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
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
Ye, Guanhua, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Chen, Hongxu, Cui, Lizhen and Zhang, Xiangliang (2021). FENet: A Frequency Extraction Network for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 25 (8) 9320528, 2848-2856. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2021.3050113
Wang, Yuandong, Yin, Hongzhi, Wu, Lian, Chen, Tong and Liu, Chunyang (2021). Secure your ride: real-time matching success rate prediction for passenger-driver pairs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, PP (99), 1-14. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2021.3112739
Ren, Xuhui, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Wang, Hao, Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet, Huang, Zi and Zhang, Xiangliang (2020). CRSAL: conversational recommender systems with adversarial learning. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 38 (4) 3394592, 1-40. doi: 10.1145/3394592
Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Wang, Weiqing, Li, Xue and Hu, Xia (2020). Social boosted recommendation with folded bipartite network embedding. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34 (2), 914-926. doi: 10.1109/tkde.2020.2982878
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu, Wang, Hao, Zhou, Xiaofang and Li, Xue (2019). Online sales prediction via trend alignment-based multitask recurrent neural networks. Knowledge and Information Systems, 62 (6), 2139-2167. doi: 10.1007/s10115-019-01404-8
Conference Papers
Wang, Zongwei, Yu, Junliang, Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Sadiq, Shazia and Gao, Min (2025). Towards Secure and Robust Recommender Systems: A Data-Centric Perspective. 18th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining-WSDM, Hannover Germany, Mar 10-14, 2025. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3701551.3703484
Qu, Yunke, Qu, Liang, Chen, Tong, Zhao, Xiangyu, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Scalable dynamic embedding size search for streaming recommendation. 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: 10.1145/3627673.3679638
Jiang, Wei, Chen, Tong, Ye, Guanhua, Zhang, Wentao, Cui, Lizhen, Huang, Zi and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Physics-guided active sample reweighting for urban flow prediction. 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Boise, ID, United States, 21-25 October 2024. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3627673.3679738
Long, Jing, Ye, Guanhua, Chen, Tong, Wang, Yang, Wang, Meng and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Diffusion-based cloud-edge-device collaborative learning for next POI recommendations. 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain, 25-29 August 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671743
Chen, Tong, Wang, Danny, Liang, Xurong, Risius, Marten, Demartini, Gianluca and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Hate speech detection with generalizable target-aware fairness. KDD '24: 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain, 25-29 August 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671821
Gao, Xinyi, Chen, Tong, Zhang, Wentao, Li, Yayong, Sun, Xiangguo and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Graph condensation for open-world graph learning. KDD '24: 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain, 25-29 August 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671917
Zheng, Ruiqi, Qu, Liang, Chen, Tong, Zheng, Kai, Shi, Yuhui and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Poisoning decentralized collaborative recommender system and its countermeasures. SIGIR 2024: The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC, United States, 14-18 July 2024. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657814
Liang, Xurong, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen, Wang, Yang, Wang, Meng and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Lightweight embeddings for graph collaborative filtering. SIGIR '24: 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: 10.1145/3626772.3657820
Ni, Hongliang, Han, Lei, Chen, Tong, Sadiq, Shazia and Demartini, Gianluca (2024). Fairness without sensitive attributes via knowledge sharing. 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-6 June 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3630106.3659014
Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Qu, Liang and Cui, Bin (2024). On-device recommender systems: a tutorial on the new-generation recommendation paradigm. 33rd ACM Web Conference, WWW 2024, Singapore, 13 - 17 May 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589335.3641250
Zheng, Ruiqi, Qu, Liang, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen, Shi, Yuhui and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Decentralized collaborative learning with adaptive reference data for on-device POI recommendation. WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024, Singapore, 13 - 17 May 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645696
Long, Jing, Chen, Tong, Ye, Guanhua, Zheng, Kai, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Physical trajectory inference attack and defense in decentralized POI recommendation. WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024, Singapore, 13 - 17 May 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645410
Jiang, Wei, Gao, Xinyi, Xu, Guandong, Chen, Tong and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Challenging low homophily in social recommendation. WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024, Singapore, 13-17 May 2024. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645460
Gao, Xinyi, Chen, Tong, Zang, Yilong, Zhang, Wentao, Hung Nguyen, Quoc Viet, Zheng, Kai and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Graph condensation for inductive node representation learning. 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 13-16 May 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icde60146.2024.00237
Sun, Yuting, Pang, Guansong, Ye, Guanhua, Chen, Tong, Hu, Xia and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Unraveling the ‘Anomaly’ in time series anomaly detection: a self-supervised tri-domain solution. 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 13-16 May 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icde60146.2024.00080
Qu, Yunke, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Budgeted embedding table for recommender systems. 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Merida, Mexico, 4-8 March 2024. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3616855.3635778
Wen, Hechuan, Chen, Tong, Chai, Li Kheng, Sadiq, Shazia, Zheng, Kai and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). To predict or to reject: causal effect estimation with uncertainty on networked data. 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM), Shanghai, China, 1 - 4 December 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icdm58522.2023.00184
Liang, Xurong, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Li, Jianxin and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Learning compact compositional embeddings via regularized pruning for recommendation. 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM), Shanghai, China, 1-4 December 2023. Los Alamitos, CA United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icdm58522.2023.00047
Gao, Xinyi, Zhang, Wentao, Chen, Tong, Yu, Junliang, Nguyen, Hung Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Semantic-aware node synthesis for imbalanced heterogeneous information networks. 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 21–25 October 2023. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615055
Liu, Yi, Xuan, Hongrui, Li, Bohan, Wang, Meng, Chen, Tong and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Self-supervised dynamic hypergraph recommendation based on hyper-relational knowledge graph. 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Birmingham, United States, 21-25 October 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615054
Qu, Yunke, Chen, Tong, Zhao, Xiangyu, Cui, Lizhen, Zheng, Kai and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Continuous input embedding size search for recommender systems. The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591653
Long, Jing, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Xu, Guandong, Zheng, Kai and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Model-agnostic decentralized collaborative learning for on-device POI recommendation. 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591733
Zheng, Shangfei, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Chen, Wei and Zhao, Lei (2023). DREAM: adaptive reinforcement learning based on attention mechanism for temporal knowledge graph reasoning. 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23–27 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591671
Wang, Lingzhi, Chen, Tong, Yuan, Wei, Zeng, Xingshan, Wong, Kam-Fai and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). KGA: A General Machine Unlearning Framework Based on Knowledge Gap Alignment. 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 9 - 14 July 2023. Stroudsburg, PA United States: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Previte, Josephine, Wang, Jie, Chen, Rocky, Zhao, Yimeng and Pini, Barbara (2023). Mind the accessibility gap: explorations of the disabling marketplace. ANZMAC 2023: Marketing for good, Dunedin, New Zealand, 4 - 6 December 2023. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago.
Chen, Qiaomin, Zheng, Bangyou, Chen, Tong and Chapman, Scott (2022). Integrating APSIM and PROSAIL to improve prediction of crop traits in various situations from hyperspectral data using deep learning. 20th Agronomy Australia Conference, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, 18-22 September 2022. Willow Grove, VIC Australia: Australian Society of Agronomy.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Sun, Xiangguo, Chen, Tong, Gabrys, Bogdan and Musial, Katarzyna (2020). Multi-level graph convolutional networks for cross-platform Anchor Link Prediction. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Virtual Event, CA, United States, 23-27 August 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3394486.3403201
Qiu, Ruihong, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi and Chen, Tong (2020). GAG: global attributed graph neural network for streaming session-based recommendation. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event China , 25-30 July 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401109
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Ye, Guanhua, Huang, Zi, Wang, Yang and Wang, Meng (2020). Try this instead: personalized and interpretable substitute recommendation. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event China, 25-30 July 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401042
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Peng, Wen-Chih, Li, Xue and Zhou, Xiaofang (2020). Sequence-aware factorization machines for temporal predictive analytics. 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering, Dallas, Texas, United States, 20-24 April 2020. LOS ALAMITOS: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE48307.2020.00125
Wang, Qinyong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi, Wang, Hao, Zhao, Yanchang and Viet Hung, Nguyen Quoc (2020). Next point-of-interest recommendation on resource-constrained mobile devices. WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3366423.3380170
Imran, Mubashir, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Shao, Yingxia, Zhang, Xiangliang and Zhou, Xiaofang (2020). Decentralized embedding framework for large-scale networks. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Jeju, South Korea, 24-27 September 2020. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-59419-0_26
Sun, Ke, Qian, Tieyun, Chen, Tong, Liang, Yile, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2020). Where to go next: modeling long- and short-term user preferences for point-of-interest recommendation. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, NY, United States, 7-12 February 2020. Palo Alto, CA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5353
Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Hung, Quoc Viet Nguyen, Huang, Zi and Cui, Lizhen (2020). GCN-based user representation learning for unifying robust recommendation and fraudster detection. SIGIR '20: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Online, July 2020. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401165
Lu, Sheng, Chen, Tong, Yang, Fan, Peng, Chenglei, Du, Sidan and Li, Yang (2019). Minimal path based particle tracking in low SNR fluorescence microscopy images. ICBIP '19: 2019 4th International Conference on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Chendgu, China, 13 - 15 August 2019. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3354031.3354035
Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Peng, Wen-Chih and Li, Xue (2019). Exploiting centrality information with graph convolutions for network representation learning. IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau, China, 8-11 April 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2019.00059
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu, Yan, Rui, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Li, Xue (2019). AIR: Attentional intention-aware recommender systems. IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau, China, 8-11 April 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2019.00035
Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Qinyong, Chen, Tong, Chen, Hongxu and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2019). Inferring substitutable products with deep network embedding. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Macao, China, 10-16 August 2019. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2019/598
Guo, Lei, Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Zhou, Alexander, Wang, Qinyong and Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet (2019). Streaming Session-based Recommendation. 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD), Anchorage, AK United States, 4-8 August 2019. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3292500.3330839
Sun, Ke, Qian, Tieyun, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Chen, Yiqi and Chen, Ling (2019). What can history tell us? Identifying relevant sessions for next-item recommendation. 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Beijing, China, 3-7 November 2019. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357384.3358050
Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu, Wu, Lin, Wang, Hao, Zhou, Xiaofang and Li, Xue (2018). TADA: trend alignment with dual-attention multi-task recurrent neural networks for sales prediction. 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2018, Singapore, 17-20 November 2018. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ICDM.2018.00020
Chen, Tong, Chen, Hongxu and Li, Xue (2018). Rumor detection via recurrent neural networks: a case study on adaptivity with varied data compositions. 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 June 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04503-6_10
Chen, Tong, Li, Xue, Yin, Hongzhi and Zhang, Jun (2018). Call attention to rumors: deep attention based recurrent neural networks for early rumor detection. 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 June 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04503-6_4
Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Xue, Wang, Meng, Chen, Weitong and Chen, Tong (2017). People opinion topic model: opinion based user clustering in social networks. International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017. Geneva, Switzerland: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. doi: 10.1145/3041021.3051159
Wu, Lin, Haynes, Michele, Smith, Andrew, Chen, Tong and Li, Xue (2017). Generating life course trajectory sequences with recurrent neural networks and application to early detection of social disadvantage. Advanced Data Mining and Applications 13th International Conference, Singapore, November 5–6, 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69179-4_16
Thesis
Chen, Tong (2020). Sequence modelling for e-commerce. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.1003