RESEARCH

Proposal

• Towards Large Language Models (LLMs) for Learning on Graphs
  PI: Jiliang Tang
  role: design and draft part of the proposal

• Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction: Deep Insights and New Perspective
  PI: Jiliang Tang
  role: design and draft the whole proposal

• Accelerate Foundation Models Academic Research Initiative
  PI: Jiliang Tang
  role: ideal proposal

• LoG local mini-conferences in MidNorth of US
  PI: Jiliang Tang
  role: design and draft the whole proposal

• Unbiased Learning to Rank and Pre-training for Web Search
  PI: Lixin Zou
  role: design and draft part of the proposal
  Result:strong> Submitted to WSDM2023 Conference committee and Baidu Inc and funded in 2022.

Academic activities

• Unbiased Learning to Rank & Pre-training for Web Search
  organizers: Lixin Zou, Haitao Mao, Xiaokai Chu, Changying Hao, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Jiliang Tang
  WSDM CUP 2023
  [WSDM CUP page] [task1] [task2] [Dataset Homepage] [video] [slides]

• Amazon Multilingual Recommendation
  organizers: Bing Yin, Chen Luo, Haitao Mao, Hanqing Lu, Haoming Jiang, Jiliang Tang, Karthik Subbian, Monica Cheng ,Suhang Wang, Wei Jin, Xianfeng Tang, Yizhou Sun, Zhen Li, Zheng Li, Zhengyang Wang (in alphabetical order)
  KDD CUP 2023 & KDD workshop 2023
  [KDD CUP page] [KDD workshop page] [openreview]

• LoG local mini-conferences in MidNorth of US
  organizers: Haitao Mao, Harry Shormer, Jing Zhu, Jiliang Tang
  

• LoG local mini-conferences in Beijing
  organizers: Lun Du, Haitao Mao, Yun He
  

• Academic chair
  organizers: Lun Du, Haitao Mao, Yun He
  

• branch leader in [AITIME debate]
  

  • Debate: what theory we need for Deep Learning

  • Debate:Graph in AGI era

  • Debate: Is Backdoor defense important in Deep Learning

  • Debate: What is the frontier in low-leverl vision

  • AI2000: Young scientist

• Session Chair in [MLNLP community]
  

  • The 15th seminar of MLNLP community

  • The 9th seminar of MLNLP community

Professional Services

Program Committee member / Reviewer:

Journals: TKDE, AIIM, TOIS, IEEE TBD

Conferences: NeurIPS 2022/2023, NeurIPS(dataset track) 2023, ICML 2022/2023/2024, ICLR 2024, LOG 2022/2023, KDD 2022/2023, WWW 2023/2024, WSDM 2023/2024, AAAI 2023, CIKM 2022, SDM 2024, RecSys 2023

Worshops: NeurIPS 2022/2023