Large Scale Graph Neural Networks
Goal of the Tutorial
This tutorial represents a significant milestone as the first comprehensive overview of techniques for large-scale machine learning on graphs, encompassing both theoretical foundations and practical applications. It delves into past and recent research endeavors aimed at enhancing the scalability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and explores their diverse potential use cases.
Our Team
Rui Xue is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received the master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California. His main research interests include machine learning on graphs, scalability of machine learning, and signal processing. He has published several papers at signal processing and machine learning conferences.
Haoyu Han is currently a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China. Haoyu’s primary research areas encompass graph data mining and large- scale machine learning. He has won two NeurIPS competitions, including the OGB-LGC. Additionally, he has authored several publications in the field of graph data mining.
Tong Zhao is a Research Scientist in the Computational Social Science group at Snap Research. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame in 2022. His research focuses on graph machine learning as well as their applications in real-world use cases. His work has resulted in 20+ conference and journal publications, in top venues such as ICML, ICLR, KDD, AAAI, WWW, TNNLS, etc. He also has experience organizing workshops and tutorials related to GNNs.
Neil Shah is a Lead Research Scientist and Manager at Snap Re- search, working on machine learning algorithms and applications on large-scale graph data. His work has resulted in 55+ conference and journal publications, in top venues such as ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, WSDM, WWW, AAAI and more, including several best-paper awards. He has also served as an organizer, chair and senior pro- gram committee member at a number of these conferences. He has also organized workshops and tutorials on graph machine learning topics at KDD, WSDM, SDM, ICDM, CIKM, and WWW. He has had previous research experiences at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Microsoft Research, and Twitch. He earned a PhD in Computer Science in 2017 from Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, funded partially by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.