Renchi Yang

Renchi Yang

Assistant Professor

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 for

  • 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.

🤖Large-scale AI systems:

  • Personalized AI systems: LLM-based/generative recommendation, conversational recommendation, persoanlized 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.

News

  • May 16, 2026: 2 papers were accepted to KDD 2026🎉🎉
  • Apr 2, 2026: 1 paper was accepted to SIGIR 2026🎉
  • Nov 23, 2025: 3 papers were accepted to KDD 2026🎉🎉🎉
  • Aug 23, 2025: 1 paper was accepted to SIGMOD 2026🎉

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, 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: TKDE, VLDBJ, TKDD.

Teaching