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[22 December 2021]Â Our ARC LIEF 2022 application "A Secure Smart Sensing and Industry Analytics Facility for Industry 4.0" was successfully granted .
[20 December 2021]Â Our tutorial "Self-Supervised Learning in Recommendation: Fundamentals and Advances " was accepted by the top conference - Web Conference 2022 (WWW'22, CORE A* and CCF A).
[24 November 2021] Congratulations to my PhD graduate Dr. Hongxu Chen on UQ Graduate School 2020 Dean's Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses.
[12 October 2021] Our two papers "PipAttack: Poisoning Federated Recommender Systems for Manipulating Item Promotion" and "Contrastive Learning for Representation Degeneration Problem in Sequential Recommendation" were accepted by the top conference WSDM 2022 (CORE A* and CCF B).
[5 October 2021] Our paper "Quaternion Factorization Machines: A Lightweight Solution to Intricate Feature Interaction Modelling" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (CORE A*).
[29 September 2021]Â I received "Most Effective Teacher Nomination of EAIT Faculty" for my teaching INFS7450 and INFS7205.
[13 September 2021] Our industry collaboration work "Secure Your Ride: Real-time Matching Success Rate Prediction for Passenger-Driver Pairs" was accepted by the top journal TKDE(CORE A*, CCF A).
[1 September 2021] Our paper "Fast-adapting and Privacy-preserving Federated Recommender System" was accepted by the top journal VLDB J (CORE A*, CCF A).
[17 August 2021] Our project "Cybersecurity Defence Strategies of Distribution Synchrophasor in Smart Grids" was funded by UQ Cyber Initiative Strategic Research Seed Funding.Â
[11 August 2021] I was granted ARC Future Fellowship.
[8 August 2021] We have four full and one short papers accepted by the top conference - CIKM 2021 (CCF B and CORE A).
[16 July 2021] Our paper "Uniting Heterogeneity, Inductiveness, and Efficiency for Graph Representation Learning"Â was accepted by the leading journal TKDEÂ (Q1, CCF A, CORE A*).
[23 June 2021] We are organizing a workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in Computational Intelligence in CIKM 2021, and call for papers is beginning.
[15 June 2021] We are organizing a special track "Trustworthy Recommender Systems" in AJCAI 2021, and call for papers is beginning.
[16 May 2021] We have four research papers accepted by the top conference - KDD 2021 (CCF A and CORE A*)
[29 April 2021] We have two research papers accepted by the top conference - IJCAI 2021 (CCF A and CORE A*)
[15 April 2021] We have four full research papers accepted by the top conference - SIGIR 2021 (CCF A and CORE A*)
[19 March 2021] Our paper "Hierarchical Hyperedge Embedding-based Representation Learning for Group Recommendation" was accepted by the leading journal - ACM TOIS (Q1, CCF A).
[16 January 2021] We have four research papers accepted by the top conference - The Web Conference 2021 (CCF A and CORE A*).
[5 January 2021] Our paper "FENet: A Frequency Extraction Network for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection" was accepted by the leading health informatics journal - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Q1 and CORE A*).Â
[16 January 2021] We have four research papers accepted by the top conference - The Web Conference 2021 (CCF A and CORE A*).
[5 January 2021] Our paper "FENet: A Frequency Extraction Network for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection" was accepted by the leading health informatics journal - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Q1 and CORE A*).
[15 December 2020] I am invited to be PC member of ICML 2021, KDD 2021 and SIGIR 2021.
[18 December 2020] I am successfully promoted to associate professor.
[4 December 2020] We have 1 paper "Self-Supervised Hypergraph Convolutional Networks for Session-based Recommendation" accepted by the top conference AAAI 2021 (CORE A*, CCF A).
[16 October 2020] We have 3 papers "Heterogeneous Hypergraph Embedding for Graph Classification", "Temporal Meta-path Guided Explainable Recommendation" and "Pre-Training Graph Neural Networks for Cold-Start Users and Items Representation" accepted by the top conference WSDM 2021 (CORE A*, CCF B).
[11 October 2020] I am invited to be Senior PC member of IJCAI 2021.
[8 October 2020] I co-organize a Special Issue on Intelligent Trajectory Data Analytic in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) (Q1 Journal), and call for papers is beginning.
[2 October 2020] We have 2 papers "Reliable Recommendation with Review-level Explanations" and "Gallat: a Spatial-Temporal Graph Attention Network for Passenger Demand Prediction" accepted at the first round of ICDE'2021 (CORE A*, CCF A).
[16 August 2020] Our paper "Decentralized Embedding Framework for Large-scale Networks" won DASFAA 2020 Best Student Paper Award, and Congratulations to my PhD student Mubashir Imran.
[22 June 2020] I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of Springer Nature Computer Science as Associate Editor.
[18 June 2020] I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of Complexity (Q1 Journal).
[16 June 2020] Our paper "Disease Prediction via Graph Neural Networks" was accepted by the leading health informatics journal - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Q1 and CORE A*).
[4 June 2020] I am invited to be PC member of WSDM 2021, AAAI 2021 and NeurIPS 2020.
[16 May 2020] We have one research paper "Multi-level Graph Convolutional Networks for Cross-platform Anchor Link Prediction" accepted by top data mining conference KDD 2020 (CORE A*, CCF A) as oral (acceptance rate 16.8%).
[13 May 2020] I co-organize a Special Issue on Explainability in World Wide Web (WWWJ) (CORE A), and call for papers is beginning.
[12 May 2020] I co-organize a Special Issue on Misinformation on the Web in Information Systems (CORE A*), and call for papers is beginning.
[23 April 2020] We have three papers on "robust recommendation", "explainable recommendation" and "streaming recommendation" accepted by top information retrieval conference SIGIR 2020 as full research papers
[20 April 2020] Our paper "Discovering Subsequence Patterns for Next POI Recommendation" was accepted by IJCAI'20 (Acceptance rate 12.6%)
[13 April 2020] Our paper "CRSAL: Conversational Recommender Systems with Adversarial Learning" was accepted by #1 IR journal - ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), which is a very comprehensive work on conversational recommender systems.
[13 March 2020] We have one paper "Social Boosted Recommendation with Folded Bipartite Network Embedding" directly accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) without revision.
[14 February 2020] I have been invited to be the area chair of The 19th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL2020).
[9 February 2020] We have one paper "Exploiting Cross-Session Information for Session-based Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks" accepted by the top IR journal ACM Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS).
[7 February 2020] We have two papers on network embedding "Graph Embeddings for One-pass Processing of Heterogeneous Queries" and "Adaptive Network Alignment with Unsupervised and Multi-order Convolutional Networks" accepted at the second round of ICDE'2020.
[1 February 2020] I have been invited to be the PC Co-chair of 7th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2020).
[11 January 2020] We have one paper "Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation on Resource-Constrained Mobile Devices" ACCEPTED by the Web Conference 2020, and it is the first work to move mobile recommender model and intelligence from the cloud to low-power mobile devices.
[17 September 2019] I won UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award 2019 (The first winner of this award in School of ITEE since the establishment of this award 20 years ago).
[2 October 2019] We have two papers accepted as full research papers at the first round of ICDE'2020.
[10 August 2019] We have two papers on "session-based recommendation" accepted as full research papers by CIKM'19.
[10 May 2019] We have one paper "Inferring Substitutable Products with Deep Network Embedding" ACCEPTED by IJCAI'19.
[30 April 2019] We have three papers ACCEPTED for ORAL presentation at the KDD2019 Research track.
[15 April 2019] We have two papers "User Guidance for Efficient Fact Checking" and "From Anomaly Detection to Rumour Detection using Data Streams of Social Platforms" accepted as full research papers by the top database conference VLDB'19.
[14 April 2019] Our paper "Online User Representation Learning Across Heterogeneous Social Networks" is accepted as a full research paper by the top information retrieval conference SIGIR'19.
[11 April 2019] My first-authored paper "Social Influence-based Group Representation Learning for Group Recommendation" won ICDE'19 Best Paper Award.
[5 March 2019] My first Ph.D. student Dr. Weiqing Wang won Dean's Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Thesis.
[9 February 2019] We have three papers on group recommendation, intention-aware sequential recommendation and network embedding with centrality information have been accepted by ICDE'19 as full research papers.
[31 December 2018] We released two large-scale benchmark datasets for group recommendation in our accepted ICDE'19 paper, and they were derived from Douban-Event and Yelp respectively.
[14 December 2018] I have been invited to join Editorial Board of Young Scientists of JCST (CCF Rank B).
[7 December 2018] I have been successfully promoted to senior lecturer.
[4 December 2018] Our paper "Personalized Video Recommendation Using Rich Contents from Videos" is accepted by the top data mining and database journal IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
[29 November 2018] Our ICDM'18 paper "TADA: Trend Alignment with Dual-Attention Multi-Task Recurrent Neural Networks for Sales Prediction" is selected as one of the best papers for possible publication in Knowledge and Information Systems.
[28 November 2018] I receive an ARC Discovery Project Grant as the sole CI (DP 19).
[20 November 2018] Our paper "Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Translation-based POI Recommendation" is accepted by the top information retrieval journal ACM Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS, CCF A, ERA A).
[10 September 2018] We will organize an International Workshop on Recommender Systems with Big Data in conjunction with ICDE 2019, and are now calling for papers.
[18 August 2018] We have 3 full research papers accepted by ICDM'18, ACM MM'18 and CIKM'18.
[25 May 2018] Our paper "TSAUB: A Temporal-Sentiment-Aware User Behavior Model for Personalized Recommendation" wins the best paper award in the 2018 Australian Database Conference (ADC'18).
[18 May 2018] Our paper "Call Attention to Rumors: Deep Attention Based Recurrent Neural Networks for Early Rumor Detection" wins the best paper award in the Workshop of PAKDD'18 on Big Data Analytics for Social Computing.
[6 May 2018]We have four research papers accepted by the top conference KDD'18 (CCF A, CORE A*).
[12 April 2018]We have one full research paper accepted by the top conference SIGIR'18 (CCF A, CORE A*).
[20 February 2018]We have three full research papers accepted by the top conference ICDE'18 (CCF A, CORE A*).
[19 February 2018]We have five research papers accepted by the top conference Dasfaa'18 (CCF B).
[13 October 2017]We launch a special section on Recommender Systems with Big Data in Journal of Computer Science and Technology. (Call for Papers).
[14 August 2017] Welcome to downloading our KDD'17 tutorial "Content-rich recommendation: Integrating Network, Text and Spatial-Temporal Dimensions".
[6 July 2017] Our article "Joint modeling of user check-in behaviors for real-time point-of-interest recommendation" is selected as 21st Annual Best of Computing by Computing Reviews.
[28 September 2016] Our paper "Using Detected Visual Objects to Index Video Database" wins the best paper award in the 2016 Australian Database Conference (ADC'16).
[7 June 2017]ADMA 2017 Call for Paper.
[27 April 2017]We launch a special issue on Geo-Social Computing in WWWJ. (Call for Papers).
[23 April 2017]Our paper "Retaining data from streams of social platforms with minimal regret" is accepted by IJCAI 2017.
[10 April 2017]Our tutorial "Content-rich recommendation: Integrating Network, Text and Spatial-Temporal Dimensions" is accepted by KDD2017.
[8 Feb 2017]Our tutorial "Recommendation in Context-Rich Environment:An Information Network Analysis Approach" is accepted by WWW2017.
[29 November 2016]We will hold the 1st International Workshop on Social Computing (IWSC) together with WWW 2017 on the sunny shores of Perth, Western Australia. Call for papers.
[11 November 2016]Our paper "An Integrated Model for Effective Saliency Prediction" is accepted by AAAI-17.
[1 November 2016] We receive an ARC Discovery Project Grant (DP 17).
[26 October 2016] Our CIKM'16 paper "Learning Graph-based POI Embedding for Location-based Recommendation" is ranked as No. 1 in the top liked paper list
[21 October 2016]Our paper "ST-SAGE: A Spatial-Temporal Sparse Additive Generative Model for Spatial Item Recommendation" is accepted by ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST).
[28 September 2016] Our paper "Using Detected Visual Objects to Index Video Database" wins the best paper award in the 2016 Australian Database Conference (ADC'16).
[26 June 2016] Our paper "Adapting to User Interest Drift for POI Recommendation" is accepted by TKDE.
[9 May 2016] Our scholar book "Spatio-Temporal Recommendation in Social Media" is published by Springer.