I will join the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor from Spring 2023. I am currently a Research Fellow in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore working with Prof. Xiaokui XIAO. I earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Nanyang Technological University, and was advised by Prof. Xiaokui XIAO and Prof. Sourav Bhowmick. Prior to that, I worked as a software engineer at Tencent for one year after receiving my B.Eng. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2015. Broadly speaking, my research aims to develop efficient algorithms and systems for large-scale data management and analysis.

Research Interests

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

Selected Honors

• Honorable mention as one of the best PC members in WWW 2022
• Best Paper Award Nominee in WWW 2022
• 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
• Best Research Paper Award in VLDB 2021

Academic Services

• Program committee member for the following conferences/workshops: WWW 2023, WSDM 2023, WWW 2022, KDD 2022, ECML-PKDD 2022.
• Invited reviewer for the following journals: TKDE, VLDBJ.
• Subreviewer or External reviewer for VLDB 2023, CIKM 2022, TheWebConf 2021, ICDM 2021, ICDE 2020, VLDB 2020, KDD 2019, IJCAI 2019, CIKM 2019.