Renchi Yang

Renchi Yang

Assistant Professor

I am currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University. I earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Nanyang Technological University, followed by a postdoctoral stint at the National University of Singapore. I am a recipient of the 2021 VLDB Best Research Paper Award and the 2022 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award. Broadly speaking, my research focuses on big data science and engineering, which involves developing efficient algorithms, models, and systems for large-scale data management and analysis. I am also affiliated with Database Research Group at HKBU.

I have one Ph.D. opening starting from 2026 Spring and a full-time research assistant starting from 2025 Fall. See details here. Please send me your CV and transcripts, if you are interested.

Research Interests

  • Databases and data management: graph query processing, similarity search
  • The Web and information retrieval: search and ranking, recommendation, web mining, text analytics
  • Data mining and machine learning: social network analysis, graph learning, text mining, LLMs

News

  • May 15, 2025: 2 papers were accepted to KDD 2025
  • Apr 5, 2025: 2 papers were accepted to SIGIR 2025
  • Mar 25, 2025: 1 paper was accepted to ICDE 2025
  • Jan 20, 2025: 1 paper was accepted to WWW 2025
  • Nov 17, 2024: 1 paper was accepted to KDD 2025
  • May 17, 2024: 3 papers were accepted to KDD 2024

Selected Honors

Academic Services

  • Proceedings co-chair: MDM 2024-2025
  • Session chair: ICDE 2025
  • Program committee member for the following conferences/workshops:
    • VLDB 2026, ICDE 2024-2025
    • KDD 2022-2025, WWW 2022-2025, SIGIR 2025, ECAI 2025, WSDM 2023-2024, CIKM 2024-2025, ECML-PKDD 2022
    • NeurIPS 2025, IJCAI 2024-2025, NeurIPS 2023 GLFrontiers workshop,
  • Invited reviewer for the following journals: TKDE, VLDBJ, TKDD.

Teaching