Researcher biography

Prof. Hongzhi Yin works as an ARC Future Fellow, Full 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 (2023 and 2022), AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Data Mining (2023 and 2022). His research has won 8 international and national Best Paper Awards, including 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 KDD 2021 and 2013, AAAI 2021, SIGIR 2022, WWW 2023 and 2021, CIKM 2021, 2019, 2016, and 2015. He has published 300 papers with an H-index of 72, including 190+ CCF A and 80+ CCF B, 190+ CORE A* and 80+ CORE A, such as KDD, SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, 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 200+. 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, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q1, and CCF B), Data Science and Engineering (DSE, JCR Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q2), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST, CCF B), Journal of Social Computing, ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2022-2023 (TOIS, CCF A), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2020-2021 (TIST, 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, Edge Impulse, SBS Radio Interviews, UQ News, Sohu.com, Faculty News of EAIT, IEEE Computer Society, ACM Computing Reviews.

Dr. Hongzhi Yin is looking for highly motivated and high-quality 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 47 in the QS World University Rankings, 52 in the US News Best Global Universities Rankings, 60 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 55 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Latest News

  1. [26 March 2024] We have three research papers accepted by the top conference SIGIR 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A).

  2. [14 March 2024] I have again been recognized as the 2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Data Mining.
  3. [10 March 2024] We have 8 research papers accepted by the prestigious conference ICDE 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A), including 4 accepted in the first round and 4 in the second round.

  4. [13 February 2024] Congratulations to Dr. Junliang Yu, my Ph.D. graduate, on winning the UQ Graduate School 2023 Dean's Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses.

  5. [11 February 2024] We have 2 research papers directly accepted in the second round of the prestigious conference ICDE 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A). It's noteworthy that out of over 1000 submissions, only 19 were directly accepted.

  6. [2 February 2024] We are organizing a special issue, "Cloud-Edge Collaboration for On-Device Recommendation", in the top journal - Science China Information Sciences (CCF Ranking A, CIC Ranking A, CAA Ranking A, IF:8.8 ), and call for paper is online.

  7. [31 January 2024] Our research paper "Personalized Elastic Embedding Learning for On-Device Recommendation" has been accepted by the top journal TKDE 2024 (CORE A* and CCF A).
  8. [24 January 2024] We have five research papers and one tutorial accepted by The Web Conference 2024 (CORE A*, CCF A).

  9. [23 January 2024] We have released three timely surveys:

  10. [19 January 2024] I have been invited to serve as Official Nominator for VinFuture Prize (US$3,000,000). The nomination is open!

  11. [13 January 2024] I have been invited to serve as Area Chair in the Research Track of KDD 2024.

  12. [1 January 2024] I began to serve as Action/Associate Editor for Neural Networks (JCR Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q1, and CCF B), Data Science and Engineering (DSE, JCR Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences ranking Q2).

  13. [1 January 2024] I have been promoted to Professor (Level E) at The University of Queensland.
  14. [17 December 2023] Our tutorial proposal was accepted by The Web Conference 2024, and we will deliver a tutorial "On-Device Recommender Systems: A Tutorial on The New-Generation Recommendation Paradigm".

  15. [8 December 2023] I have been recognized with the 2023 Rising Star of Science Award on Research.com and ranked 11th in Australia

  16. [1 December 2023] We have four research papers accepted by the top conference ICDE 2024 1st Round (CORE A*, CCF A).

  17. [30 October 2023] Our ARC DP 2024 application, titled "Privacy-Aware and Personalised Explanation Overlays for Recommender Systems", has been granted and funded.

  18. [20 October 2023] We have three research papers accepted as ORAL by the top conference WSDM 2024.

  19. [17 October 2023] Our research paper "Accelerating Scalable Graph Neural Network Inference with Node-Adaptive Propagation" has been accepted by the top conference ICDE 2024 (CORE A* and CCF A).

  20. [16 October 2023] Our research paper "Manipulating Visually-aware Federated Recommender Systems and Its Countermeasures" has been accepted by the top journal TOIS (CORE A and CCF A).

  21. [1 October 2023] Our research paper "Variational Counterfactual Prediction under Runtime Domain Corruption" has been accepted by the top journal TKDE 2023 (CORE A* and CCF A).

  22. [6 September 2023] I was invited to serve as Senior PC for PAKDD 2024 and DASFAA 2024.

  23. [6 September 2023] We have two papers accepted by the top conference ICDM 2023 (Acceptance Rate 9.73% for Regular Papers).

  24. [6 August 2023] I have been recognized as one of 2023 Young Tall Poppy Science Award winners.

  25. [5 August 2023] We have four research papers accepted by the top conference CIKM 2023.

  26. [24 July 2023] I was invited to serve as an Area Chair (AC) for the User Modeling and Recommendation track of The Web Conference 2024.

  27. [24 July 2023] We have two TKDE papers recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers.

  28. [12 July 2023] Our research paper "Comprehensive Privacy Analysis on Federated Recommender System against Attribute Inference Attacks" has been accepted by the top journal TKDE 2023 (CORE A* and CCF A).

  29. [22 June 2023] Congratulations to my Ph.D. graduates Dr. Shijie Zhang and Dr. Qinyong Wang on winning UQ Graduate School 2022 and 2021 Dean's Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses.

  30. [20 June 2023] Congratulations to my Ph.D. student Dr. Junliang Yu on achieving his Ph.D. from The University of Queensland.

  31. [19 June 2023] Our research paper "XSimGCL: Towards Extremely Simple Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation" has been accepted by the top journal TKDE 2023 (CORE A* and CCF A).

  32. [2 June 2023] Our research paper "Self-Supervised Learning for Recommender Systems: A Survey" has been accepted by the top journal TKDE 2023 (CORE A* and CCF A).

  33. [18 May 2023] I was invited to be an SPC for the top conference CIKM 2023.

  34. [17 May 2023] Our research paper "Efficient Bi-Level Optimization for Recommendation Denoising" was accepted by the top conference KDD 2023 Research Track (CORE A* and CCF A).

  35. [4 May 2023] I am excited to receive the prestigious "AI's 10 to Watch" award from the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Intelligent Systems.

  36. [2 May 2023] Our research paper "KGA: A General Machine Unlearning Framework Based on Knowledge Gap Alignment" was accepted by the top conference ACL 2023 (CCF A and CORE A*). Congratulations to Lingzhi!

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