Renchi Yang

Renchi Yang

Assistant Professor

Renchi Yang

Data algorithms · AI systems

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, and leading the LAGAS group. 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. My research focuses on developing big data algorithms and AI systems. I am also affiliated with Database Research Group at HKBU.

Research Interests

Large-scale data algorithms

  • social networks, web data, relational data, biomedical data, textual data, tabular data, multimodal data, etc.
  • data integration, data management, information retrieval, data analytics and mining, etc.
  • search and ranking, clustering, anomaly detection, link prediction, visualization, etc.

Large-scale AI systems

  • Personalized AI systems: LLM-based/generative recommendation, conversational recommendation, personalized assistant, etc.
  • Agent systems: data agents, search agents, etc.
  • Foundation models: relational foundation models, graph foundation models, model merging, etc.
  • Efficient LLMs: inference speedup, on-device LLMs, etc.

Selected Honors

Academic Services

  • Proceedings co-chair: MDM 2024-2025
  • Session chair: ICDE 2025, PAKDD 2026, KDD 2026
  • Program committee member for the following conferences/workshops:
    • Area Chair/Senior PC: KDD 2026-2027, NeurIPS 2026, CIKM 2026 (short)
    • DB: SIGMOD 2027-2028, VLDB 2026-2027, ICDE 2024-2027
    • DM&IR: KDD 2022-2025, WWW 2022-2026, SIGIR 2025-2026, WSDM 2023-2027, CIKM 2024-2026, ECML-PKDD 2022
    • ML: NeurIPS 2025, IJCAI 2024-2026, AAAI 2026-2027, ECAI 2025
  • Invited reviewer for the following journals: VLDBJ, TKDE, TOIS, TKDD.

Teaching