Organizer Bio
Yixin Liu
Yixin Liu is a second-year Ph.D. student at Monash University, supervised by Prof. Shirui Pan. His research mainly focuses on graph representation learning and graph neural networks, with an emphasis on self-supervised and weak-supervised scenarios. Previously, he obtained B.Sc and M.Sc from Beihang University in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He received the Google Ph.D. Fellowship award in 2022. He published several papers in top-tier conferences and journals including AAAI, WWW, WSDM, CIKM, TNNLS, and TKDE. He served as the PC member/reviewer of the following major AI/ML conferences including AAAI, ICDM, TKDE, TNNLS, TIP, etc.
Yizhen Zheng
Yizhen Zheng is a second-year Ph.D. student at Monash University, supervised by Prof. Shirui Pan. His research interests lie in graph representation learning, self-supervised learning and graph neural networks. He received the M.Bus.Info.Sys degree from Monash University as Top 1 student in 2020, M.Bus degree from Monash University in 2018 and B.B.A degree from Shenzhen University in 2016. He published papers on top venues and journals such as NeurIPS, AAAI, TNNLS, ICDM, IJCAI, etc. He is invited to review conferences and journals including TNNLS, ICDM, TWEB, PR, etc.
Ming Jin
Feng Xia
Dr. Feng Xia is a Professor in School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, Australia. He is/was on the Editorial Boards of over 10 int’l journals. He has served as the General Chair, PC Chair, Workshop Chair, or Publicity Chair of over 30 int’l conferences and workshops, and PC Member of over 90 conferences. Dr. Xia has authored/co-authored two books and over 300 scientific papers in int’l journals and conferences (such as IEEE TAI, TKDE, TNNLS, TC, TMC, TPDS, TBD, TCSS, TNSE, TETCI, TETC, THMS, TVT, TITS, TASE, ACM TKDD, TIST, TWEB, TOMM, WWW, AAAI, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, JCDL, EMNLP, and INFOCOM). He was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher (2019). Dr. Xia received a number of prestigious awards, including IEEE DSS 2021 Best Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Best Land Transportation Paper Award, ACM/IEEE JCDL 2020 The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE CSDE 2020 Best Paper Award, WWW 2017 Best Demo Award, IEEE DataCom 2017 Best Paper Award, IEEE UIC 2013 Best Paper Award, and IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor. He has been invited as Keynote Speaker at seven int’l conferences, and delivered a number of Invited Talks at int’l conferences and many universities worldwide. His research interests include data science, artificial intelligence, graph learning, and systems engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Shirui Pan