[12/2024]: We will organize workshops on Scientific Hypothesis Generation and Validation, together with Stanford, Dartmouth, UC-Davis, and PSU, at ICLR 2025 and WWW 2025. Please stay tuned!
[11/2024]: Invited to give a talk on Scientific Hypothesis Generation at the second annual meeting of Artificial Intelligence for Primary Immune Disorders and Inborn Errors of Immunity, which will take place in New York City, USA from March 19th -21st , 2025.
[11/2024]: One paper on Multi-Modal Predictive Maintenance is accepted by KDD2025. Congrats to my student Shuaicheng as the leading author!
[10/2024]: Invited to give a talk at the CS Seminar Series, University of Rochester.
[9/2024]: One paper on Heterogeneous Long-Tailed Learning is accepted by NeurIPS2024. Congrats to my student Haohui as the leading author!
[9/2024]: Invited to give a talk at the Oak Ridge Lab’s Core Universities AI Workshop 2024.
[9/2024]: Invited to give a talk at the Amazon - Virginia Tech Initiative for Efficient and Robust Machine Learning.
[9/2024]: Congratulations to my postdoc Adithya for receiving his first gift grant from Artificial Intelligence Journal as PI, which will be used to support our workshop on Scientific Hypothesis Creation and Validation.
[9/2024]: I am delighted to be invited to serve as the Student Travel Award Chair for ACM CIKM 2025, which will be held in Seoul, Korea.
[9/2024]: Honored to receive a new grant from NSF-SCH program as co-PI to support our research on Multi-Modal Human-AI Teaming.
[8/2024]: I am delighted to be invited to serve as the Social Media and Publicity Chair for ACM SIGKDD 2025, which will be held in Toronto, ON, Canada.
[7/2024]: Honored to receive a new grant from DARPA SciFy as VT PI to support our research on Scientific Hypothesis Validation.
[7/2024]: Honored to receive an Amazon Gifted Grant as PI to support our research on Collaborative Recommender Agents.
[7/2024]: I am invited to serve as the Local Chair for IEEE BigData 2024, which will be held in Washington, D.C.
[6/2024]: Honored to receive the NSF Career Award as PI to support our research on Open-World Machine Learning!
[6/2024]: I am invited to serve as the Senior Program Committee Member of AAAI 2025.
[5/2024]: One paper on Long-Tail Generalization is accepted by SIGKDD 2024. Congrats to my student Haohui as the leading author!
[5/2024]: Honored to receive a new grant from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as PI to support our research on Combating Dynamic and Networked Financial Crimes.
[5/2024]: Two papers have been accepted by ICML2024. Congrats to my student Haohui for her first leading-author paper on Dynamic Non-iid Transfer Learning!
[4/2024]: One paper on Benchmarking 3D Molecule Learning with Functional Groups has been accepted by IJCAI2024. Congrats to my students Tingwei and Jianpeng!
[4/2024]: Congrats to my students Haohui and Shuaicheng, who have been selected as the CCI Cyber Innovation Scholar again!
[2/2024]: Honored to receive a new grant from DARPA FoundSci as VT PI to support our research on 3D Metamaterial Synthesis via Large Graph-Language Foundation Model.
[1/2024]: I am invited to serve as the Editor of Elsevier Big Data Research.
[1/2024]: I am invited to serve as the Proceedings Chair for ACM SIGKDD 2024, which will be held in Barcelona, Spain.
[12/2023]: I am honored to be selected as one of the AAAI-24 New Faculty Highlights and invited to give a talk on Open World Machine Learning!
[12/2023]: Honored to receive a Two-Year Postdoc Fellowship Grant from the Office of Research and Innovation, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, and the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science as PI! Welcome Adithya Kulkarni to join VT as a postdoc (co-advise with Prof. Lifu Huang) working on Hypothesis Generation for Scientific Domains!
[12/2023]: One paper on the Unbiased Graph Generative Model is accepted by ICDE 2024.
[11/2023]: We will organize TrustLOG: The Second Workshop on Trustworthy Learning on Graphs @ WWW'24. See u in Singapore!
[9/2023]: One paper on Data Sanitation for Financial Transaction Networks is accepted by ICAIF 2023. Congrats to my student Shuaicheng as the leading author!
[8/2023]: Honored to receive financial support from Deloitte on the projects of long-tailed learning and predictive maintenance.
[7/2023]: I am invited to serve as session chair and Ph.D. consortium panelist @SIGKDD2023.
[6/2023]: I am invited to give a talk at the Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing Seminar@UIUC.
[6/2023]: I am invited to give a talk on Rare Disease Diagnosis@Children's National Hospital.
[6/2023]: I accepted the invitation to serve as SPC of AAAI 2024.
[5/2023]: One paper on Individual Calibration (CaliRare) is accepted by SIGKDD 2023. Congrats to my student Longfeng as the leading author!
[5/2023]: Honored to receive the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Grant on open knowledge network (OKN) conflict resolution as PI.
[4/2023]: My student Shuaicheng will join the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) as a visiting student to conduct research on the generative graph foundation model.
[4/2023]: One paper on Personalized Federated Learning is accepted by ICML 2023. Congrats to my student Shuaicheng!
[3/2023]: Congrats to my students Haohui and Shuaicheng, who have been selected as the CCI Cyber Innovation Scholar!
[3/2023]: I am invited to serve as the Vice Program Chair for the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023), which will take place in Sorrento, Italy.
[3/2023]: I am invited to give a talk on "Open Environment Rare Category Analysis" to our Deloitte partners.
[2/2023]: Honored to receive the Cisco Faculty Research Award on insider threat detection as PI.
[2/2023]: I am invited to give a talk on "Harnessing Rare Category Trinity for Complex Networks" at Palo Alto Research Center.
[2/2023]: One paper on Algorithmic Fairness is accepted by The Web Conference 2023.
[1/2023]: I accepted the invitation to serve as SPC/PC members of KDD/ICML/IJCAI/SIGIR 2023.
[12/2022]: Honored to receive support from Deloitte US.
[12/2022]: Honored to receive the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Grant on human-AI interactive curriculum generation as PI.
[12/2022]: Honored to receive the Virginia Tech New Faculty Mentoring Grant as PI.
[11/2022]: I am invited to give a talk on "Beyond Supervised Learning on Graph: Model Pre-Training, Knowledge Transfering, and Logical Reasoning" at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics.
[10/2022]: Honored to receive the 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant on trustworthy learning on graphs as PI.
[10/2022]: I am invited to give a talk on "Harnessing Rare Category Trinity for Complex Networks" at the ORNL Core Universities AI workshop.
[10/2022]: I accepted the invitation to serve as a Senior Program Committee member of SDM 2022.
[9/2022]: I accepted the invitation to serve as a Senior Program Committee member of IJCAI 2022.
[8/2022]: Two papers have been accepted by ICDM 2022. Congratulations to my students Longfeng (paper on Complementary Recommendation) and Yuzhen (paper on Knowledge Transfer across Graphs)!
[8/2022]: One paper on mentoring GNN pre-training (MentorGNN) and our workshop (TrustLog) have been accepted by ACM CIKM 2022. See you in Atlanta!
[6/2022]: I accepted the invitation to serve as a Senior Program Committee member of AAAI 2023.
[3/2022]: I accepted the invitation to serve as a Senior Program Committee member of CIKM 2022.
[1/2022]: I join CS@VT as a tenure-track Assistant Professor!