Invited Talk

Invited Talks/Keynote Speeches 

• “On-device Recommender Systems: A Tutorial On The New-Generation Recommendation Paradigm”, WWW’24, Singapore, 2024. (Invited Tutorial at CORE A* Conference, 160+ attendees)

• “Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation: Foundations, Methods and Prospects”, DASFAA’23, Tianjin, China, 2023. (Invited Tutorial at CORE A Conference, 140+ attendees)

• “From ChatGPT to Conversational Recommendation System”, the public webinar of Human-Centric Intelligent Information Systems, 2023. (Invited Keynote, 200+ attendees)

• "Manipulating Recommender Systems: Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures",  Invited Keynote at DataFun 2022 Trustworthy Recommender System Summit, December 2022 (1056 online attendees).

• "Information Network Embedding for A New Generation of Geosocial Recommendations", Invited Keynote at The 9th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC 2022) , November, 2022.

• "Robust GCN-based Recommendation System", Invited Talk at The 2022 National Conference on Social Media Processing (SMP'22), August, 2022.

• "Self-Supervised Learning in Recommendation: Fundamentals and Advances", Invited Tutorial at  WWW 2022 (CORE A* Conference), April, 2022.

• "A New Generation of Geosocial Recommendation Paradigms and Architectures", Invited Talk at 中国数据库战略研讨系列主题论坛：检索与推荐, January 2022.

• "Network embedding-based Geosocial Recommendation", Invited Keynote at ADMA'19, Dalian, China, November, 2019. (slides download)

• "Mining Geo-social Networks for Spatial Item Recommendation", Invited Keynote, Workshop at PAKDD'18 (https://bdasc.uqcloud.net/), Melbourne, Australia, June, 2018

• "Mining Geo-social Networks - Spatial Item Recommendation", Invited Tutorial, The 2018 Australasian Database Conference (ADC’18), Gold Coast, Australia, May, 2018. (slides download)

• "User-Centered Data Analytic and Modeling - Semantic-Aware Behaviour Prediction", Invited Talk, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 18 May, 2018. (slides download)

• "User-Centered Data Analytic and Modeling - Semantic-Aware Behaviour Prediction", Invited Talk, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, May 15, 2018. (slides download)

• "A Scalable Probabilistic Tensor Factorization Model for Semantic-Aware Behaviour Prediction", Invited Talk, Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Statistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, March 26, 2018. (slides download)

• "User-Centered Data Analytic and Modeling", Invited Talk, International Youth Academic Forum of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, December 21, 2017

• "Big Recommender System", Invited Talk, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China, December 26, 2017

• "Mining Geo-social Networks-Spatiotemporal Recommendation", Invited Talk, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, October 30, 2017

• "Context-Rich Recommendation: Integrating Links, Text, and Spatio-Temporal Dimensions", Tutorial, KDD'17, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August, 2017 (slides download)

• "User behavior Analytic in social media", Toutiao (今日头条), 12 June, 2017;

• "Mining Geo-social Networks", JD Research (京东研究院), Invited by the Director Dr. David Yin, 9 June, 2017;

• "Mining 4W (Who, Where, When and What)", Mininglamp (明略数据), 8 June, 2017;

• "Spatio-temporal Recommendation in Geo-social Network", Peking University, 6 June, 2017;

• "Recommendation in Context-Rich Environment: An Information Network Analysis Approach", Tutorial, The 2017 World Wide Web Conference (WWW’17), Perth, Australia, April, 2017 (slides download)

• "Social event detection and user behavior modelling", Tutorial, The 2016 Australasian Database Conference (ADC’16), Sydney, Australia, September, 2016, (slides download, paw:15de)

• "Mining Geo-Social Networks - Mining 4W (What, Who, When, Where)", Invited Talk, Youth Association Talk Series, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 21 January 2016

• "Spatiotemporal Context-Aware User Modeling for Recommendation",Keynote, Annual Workshop on Data, Systems, and Security, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, Victoria, Australia, 9 December 2015

• "Joint Modeling of User Check-in Behaviors for Point-of-Interest Recommendation",Keynote, China - Australia Database Workshop, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, 18 October 2015

• "Context-Aware User Modeling and Recommender System",Invited Talk, Youth Association Talk Series, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 4 February 2015