Email: | xy.zhao [at] cityu.edu.hk [contact me] |
Mail: | Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 999077 |
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Xiangyu Zhao is a tenure-track assistant professor of Data Science at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Prior to CityU, he completed his Ph.D. under the advisory of Prof. Jiliang Tang at DSE Lab of MSU, his M.S. under the advisory of Prof. Enhong Chen at BDAA Lab of USTC, and his B.Eng. under the advisory of Prof. Ming Tang and Prof. Tao Zhou at BigData Center of UESTC.
His current research interests include data mining and machine learning, especially
His research has been awarded ICDM'22 and ICDM'21 Best-ranked Papers, Global Top 100 Chinese New Stars in AI, CCF-Ant Research Fund, CCF-Tencent Open Fund (twice), Ant Group Research Fund, Tencent Focused Research Fund, Criteo Faculty Research Award, Bytedance Research Collaboration Program, MSU Dissertation Fellowship, and nomination for Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award. He serves as top data science conference (senior) program committee members, session chairs and journal reviewers. He serves as the organizers of DRL4KDD and DRL4IR workshops at KDD'19, WWW'21, SIGIR'20/21/22 and CIKM'23, and a lead tutor at KDD'23, WWW'21/22/23, IJCAI'21/23 and WSDM'23. He also serves as the founding academic committee member of MLNLP, the largest Chinese AI community with millions of members/followers. The models and algorithms from his research have been launched in the online system of many companies, such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Criteo, Lyft, JD.com, Kuaishou, Tencent, and Bytedance.
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