Yudong is currently a research scientist at Singapore Management University. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Singapore Management University in 2024. His major research interests lie in high-performance data mining over graphs constructed from diverse data sources with varying formats. Besides, he is also actively working on LLM-powered graph mining and its applications.
Email: ydniu@smu.edu.sg
Address: 80 Stamford Rd, Singapore 178902
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Singapore Management University (supervisor: Prof. Yuchen Li)
B.Eng. in Computer Science, Wuhan University
Yudong Niu, Yuchen Li, Panagiotis Karras, Yanhao Wang. "A Sketch Propagation Framework for Hub Queries on Unmaterialized Relational Graphs". To appear in 2025 IEEE 41th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2025).
Yudong Niu, Yuchen Li, Jiaxin Jiang, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan. "SANS: Efficient Densest Subgraph Discovery over Relational Graphs without Materialization." To appear in the ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW 2025).
Jiaxin Jiang, Siyuan Yao, Yuhang Chen, Bingsheng He, Yudong Niu, Yuchen Li, Shixuan Sun, Yongchao Liu. "Community Detection in Heterogeneous Information Networks Without Materialization." To appear in the ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2025).
Yudong Niu, Yuchen Li, Panagiotis Karras, Yanhao Wang, Zhao Li. "Discovering Personalized Characteristic Communities in Attributed Graphs." In 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2024).
Yudong Niu, Yuchen Li, Ju Fan, Zhifeng Bao. "Local Clustering over Labeled Graphs: An Index‑Free Approach." In 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2022).
Ping Zhang, Zhifeng Bao, Yudong Niu, Yipeng Zhang, Songsong Mo, Fei Ceng, Zhiyong Peng. "Proactive rumor control in online networks." World Wide Web 22 (2019): 1799-1818 (WWWJ 2019).
PC Member of CIKM 2024, 2025
PC Member of The Web Conference 2026
Invited Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)