Scholar
Xiangyu Zhao
Google Scholar ID: Nkm9r2IAAAAJ
Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,145
H-index
48
i10-index
134
Publications
20
Co-authors
23
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded KDD'25 Best Paper Award Runner Up, ICDM'22 and ICDM'21 Best-ranked Papers, Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination, Global Chinese AI Rising Stars (Top 25 in Data Mining), CCF-Tencent Open Fund (twice), HW Innovation Research Program (twice), Tencent Focused Research Fund (twice), CCF-Alimama Research Fund, HW Young Scholar Funding Scheme, Kuaishou Consultation Service, HKIDS Early Career Research Grant, and MSU Dissertation Fellowship. He is the principal awardee of the HKRGC Key Projects Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) and Research Impact Fund (RIF), marking him as the ONLY assistant professor to lead both such key projects in Hong Kong. Guided students to win the NeurIPS Competition 2024 Champion (1/1500+ global teams), KDD Cup 2024 Runner Up (2/500+ global teams), International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2023 Silver Medal, and iCAN 2022 Gold Medal. Awardee of the CityU Outstanding Research Award and Thetos Young Scholar Award (two awardees annually). Among the Stanford World's Top 2% Scientists in 2024-2025.
Research Experience
- Served as top-tier Artificial Intelligence and Data Science conference chair and organizer at WWW'25, ICICIP'25, ISNN'25, WAIM'24, NLPCC'24, and ADC'24, and journal associate editor at Neural Networks, Nature NPJ Artificial Intelligence, ACM Transactions on the Web, and Frontiers in Big Data. He has served as a (senior) area chair and program committee member over 100 times. He is also a workshop organizer at KDD'19, SIGIR'20/21/22/24, WWW'21/24, Recsys'23, CIKM'23, and a lead tutor at KDD'23/25, WWW'21/22/23, IJCAI'21/23, and WSDM'23. He is a founding academic committee member of MLNLP, the largest Chinese AI community with millions of subscribers.
Education
- Worked as an assistant professor at CityU from September 2021, and got an early promotion to associate professor in July 2025. Prior to CityU, he completed his Ph.D. under Prof. Jiliang Tang at MSU, M.S. under Prof. Enhong Chen at USTC, and B.Eng. under Prof. Tao Zhou and Prof. Ming Tang at UESTC.
Background
- Tenured associate professor of Data Science at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Research interests include data mining and machine learning, especially personalization, recommender systems, search engines, online advertising, information retrieval, large language models, AGI, AutoML, reinforcement learning, trustworthy AI, multimodal ML, and applications in urban computing, healthcare, and education.
Miscellany
- The models and algorithms from his research have been launched in the online systems of various companies, such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Criteo, Lyft, Baidu, Tencent, Ant Group, Kuaishou, and JD.com. He also serves as the founding academic committee member of MLNLP, the largest Chinese AI community with millions of subscribers.
