Scholar
Ninghao Liu
Google Scholar ID: Nir-EDYAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,990
H-index
40
i10-index
83
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published refereed papers at recognized venues such as KDD, WWW, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, CIKM. Won the Distinguished Paper Award in AMIA 2024, Outstanding Paper Award in ICML 2022, Best Paper Award Shortlist in WWW 2019, and Best Paper Award Candidate in ICDM 2019. Received Google Research Scholar award in 2025.
Research Experience
- Conducted research at the University of Georgia, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), and Tencent America. Currently, he is with the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 2021, supervised by Dr. Xia Hu; M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015; B.S. in Information Engineering from South China University of Technology in 2014.
Background
- Research interests span Explainable AI (XAI), Large Foundation Models, Graph Mining, AI Security, and Recommender Systems. Background: Dr. Ninghao Liu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and was previously an assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Georgia.
Miscellany
- Actively looking for self-motivated PhD students and remote interns. Has a deep interest in Explainable AI (XAI), believing it is crucial not only for security but also for fairness. Passionate about making XAI more usable.
