Yang, Haoran | 杨浩然 [Google Scholar]
Ph.D. Candidate

Data Science and Machine Intelligence (DSMI) Lab
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Technology Sydney

Department of Computing (电子计算学系)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (香港理工大学)

UTS Location: 15 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
PolyU Location: 11 Yuk Chai Rd, Hung Hom, Kowloon City District, Hong Kong SAR, China

UTS-Email: haoran.yang-2 AT student DOT uts DOT edu DOT au
PolyU-Email: haoran98.yang AT connect DOT polyu DOT hk

News | About Me | Publications | Projects | Professional Services | Awards & Grants

News

About Me

Haoran Yang is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Data Science and Machine Intelligence Lab of Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, supervised by Prof. Guandong Xu and Dr. Hongxu Chen, and Department of Computing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, supervised by Chair Prof. Qing Li. He also works closely with Dr. Xiangyu Zhao at City University of Hong Kong. Prior to that, he obtained his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology and B.Eng Minor in Financial Engineering from Nanjing University in 2020. During Haoran's undergraduate study, he was a visiting student of IFM Lab at Florida State University, supervised by Dr. Jiawei Zhang.

Haoran's research interests include but not limited to Graph Neural Networks and Recommendation Systems. Currently, he focuses on the following research topics:
Education Background:

Tutorials

  • Hongxu Chen, Yicong Li, Haoran Yang, “Graph Data Mining in Recommender Systems”, The 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2021), Melbourne, Australia, 26th-29th October 2021 [Slides]

Publications

*: Equal Contribution, †: Corresponding Author

Journal Papers:


Conference Papers:


Chapters:

  • Chen H., Li Y., Yang H. (2021) "Graph Data Mining in Recommender Systems". In: Zhang W., Zou L., Maamar Z., Chen L. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2021). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13081. Springer, Cham.

Patent Applications

  • "MATCHING INFLUENCERS WITH CATEGORIZED ITEMS USING MULTIMODAL MACHINE LEARNING",
    Hongxu Chen, Li He, Dingxian Wang, Xianzhi Wang, Guandong Xu, Haoran Yang,
    U.S. Patent Application, ATTY. DCK. NO. 2043.M70US1

Projects

  • Understanding Micro-Videos for Customer Profiling and Personalized Marketing, eRUPT 2020 (eBay’s Research and University Partnership for Technology Project)
  • An Information Retrieval-based (IR-based) Approach Combining with Code Independence for Updating Requirments | 基于代码依赖紧密度的过时需求更新技术研究 (2018年江苏省大学生创新训练计划项目)

Professional Services

Program Committee Member:

  • AAAI'2024, CIKM'2023, PRICAI'2023, AAAI'2023, PRICAI'2022

Journal Reviewer:

  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ)

Conference Reviewer:

  • CIKM'2023, ADMA'2023, PAKDD'2023, DASFAA'2023, PRICAI'2023, WWW'2023, WSDM'2023, AAAI'2023, ICONIP'2022, ADMA'2022, PRICAI'2022, CIKM'2022, IJCNN'2022, KDD'2022, CIKM'2021

Awards & Grants

  • 2023.06, PolyU Research Postgraduate Scholarship, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 2022.11, The Best Application Award, The 18th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'2022)
  • 2022.04, UTS Vice-Chancellor's Postgraduate Research Students Conference Fund 2022 - Online Round 1
  • 2021.10, UTS Vice-Chancellor's Postgraduate Research Students Conference Fund 2021 - Online Round 3
  • 2021.02, Australian Research Council Linkage Project Scholarship, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2021.02, International Research Scholarship, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2019.11, Scholarship for Elite, Nanjing University | 南京大学菁英奖学金
  • 2019.11, The People's Scholarship in China | 人民奖学金
  • 2019.04, MCM/ICM 2019 Honorable Mention
  • 2018.11, Scholarship for Elite, Nanjing University | 南京大学菁英奖学金
  • 2018.11, The People's Scholarship in China | 人民奖学金
  • 2018.11, The 14th Citi Financial Innovation Application Competition, The Third Prize, Top 8 in Nationwide | 第十四届“花旗杯”金融创新大赛,三等奖,全国八强