Haoran Yang | 杨浩然 Ph.D. Candidate Data Science and Machine Intelligence (DSMI) Lab School of Computer Science Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney Location: 15 Broadway Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia News | Research Interest | Education | Publications | Projects | Professional Services | Awards Email: Haoran.Yang-2 AT student DOT uts DOT edu DOT au [LinkedIn] [Google Scholar]

News

• [2022.04] One co-authored paper is accepted by IJCNN'2022.
• [2022.04] Haoran is granted the UTS VC's Conference Fund 2022 - Online Round 1.
• [2022.03] Haoran successfully passed his Candidature Assessment 1.
• [2022.01] One full research paper is accepted by WWW'2022.
• [2021.10] Haoran is granted the UTS VC's Conference Fund 2021 - Online Round 3.
• [2021.08] One full research paper is accepted by ICDM'2021.
• [2021.08] One tutorial proposal is accepted by WISE'2021.

Research Interest

My research interests include but not limit to Graph Neural Networks, Recommendation Systems and Knowledge Graphs. Currently, I focus on the following research topics:

• Graph Contrastive Learning
• Recommendation Systems

Education

• 2021.04-Now
  Ph.D. in Analytics, DSMI Lab, University of Technology Sydney.
  Supervisor: Prof. Guandong Xu & Dr. Hongxu Chen
  External Supervisor: Dr. Xiangyu Zhao at City University of Hong Kong
• 2016.09-2020.06
  B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University.
  B.Eng. Minor in Financial Engineering, Nanjing University.
  Supervisor: Prof. Chongjun Wang
• 2019.08-2019.10
  Visiting Student, IFM Lab , Florida State University.
  Supervisor: Dr. Jiawei Zhang

Publications

*: Equal Contribution, †: Corresponding Author

Conference Papers:

• Lin Meng, Haoran Yang, Jiawei Zhang, “Stage Evolving Graph Neural Network based Dynamic Recommendation with Life Cycles”, The 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'2022), Padua, Italy, 18th-23rd July 2022. (CORE B, CCF C)

• Haoran Yang*, Hongxu Chen*†, Shirui Pan, Lin Li, Philip S. Yu, Guandong Xu†, “Dual Space Graph Contrastive Learning”, The 31st ACM Web Conference (WWW'2022), Lyon, France, 25th-29th April 2022. (CORE A*, CCF A) [Source Codes] [Slides]

• Haoran Yang*, Hongxu Chen*†, Lin Li, Philip S. Yu, Guandong Xu†, “Hyper Meta-Path Contrastive Learning for Multi-Behavior Recommendation”, The 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'2021), Auckland, New Zealand, 7th-10th December 2021. (CORE A*, CCF B, Acceptance Rate: 9.9%) [Source Codes] [Slides]

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. (Invited Paper)

Workshop Papers & Preprints:

• Haoran Yang*, Hongxu Chen*†, Sixiao Zhang, Xiangguo Sun, Qian Li, Guandong Xu†, “Generating Counterfactual Hard Negative Samples for Graph Contrastive Learning”, Submitted to The 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2023), Anaheim, USA, 3rd-7th April 2023. Under Review

• Sixiao Zhang, Hongxu Chen, Haoran Yang, Xiangguo Sun, Philip S. Yu, Guandong Xu, “Graph Masked Autoencoders with Transformers”, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Under Review.

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]

Projects

• 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

Journal Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
• World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ)

Conference Reviewer:

• CIKM'2022, IJCNN'2022, KDD'2022, IJCAI'2022, AAAI'2022, SDM'2022, WWW'2022, WWW'2021, IJCAI'2021, KDD'2021, CIKM'2021

Awards

• 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, People's Scholarship | 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, People's Scholarship | 人民奖学金
• 2018.11, The 14th Citi Financial Innovation Application Competition, 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