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Academic Achievements
Multiple papers accepted by WSDM 2026, CIKM 2025, TNNLS, KDD 2025, SIGIR 2025, IEEE TPAMI, ICLR 2025, NAACL 2025, WWW 2025, IEEE/ACM TCBB, Neural Networks, AAAI 2025, KDD 2025 (August cycle), WACV 2025, etc. Recognized among the World's Top 2% Scientist (Single Year, 2024 data) by Stanford/Elsevier!
Research Experience
Worked as a data scientist at DBS Bank and a research scientist at A*STAR.
Education
Obtained a PhD Degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 on a fully funded scholarship from A*STAR. Bachelor of Computing with First Class Honors from National University of Singapore in 2009 as the top student in Computer Science.
Background
Currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU). Research interests lie in the broad areas of data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Specific research topics include: (1) Learning on graphs and information networks; (2) Web and social media analytics; (3) Recommendation systems; (4) Application of knowledge graphs on data mining problems.
Miscellany
Invited to give talks at multiple international conferences such as the 5th International Symposium on Cognitive and Semantic Computing, the International Workshop on Resource-Efficient Learning for the Web, and UQ-DS Seminar.