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Xiang Zhao

Xiang Zhao, PhD UNSW

Professor
- Laboratory for Big Data and Decision
- National University of Defense Technology
Email: xiangzhao at nudt.edu.cn
Phone: +86 731 8700 6440
Facsimile: +86 731 8457 3514
Address: 109 Deya Road, Changsha, Hunan, China (410073)

Short Biography

Xiang Zhao (赵翔) is currently a full professor at Laboratory for Big Data and Decision, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), scholarly advised by Prof. Huaimin Wang (王怀民), where he serves as the head of the research division of intelligent decision-making. During 2015-2019, he was also a concurrent research fellow at Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, led by Prof. Deren Li (李德仁) and Prof. Jianya Gong (龚健雅).

During 2020-2021, he was a visiting scholar at Xi'an Jiaotong University in collaboration with Prof. Qinghua Zheng (郑庆华). In 2013, he obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, under the supervision of Prof. Xuemin Lin (林学民), with A/Prof. Raymond Wong as his joint-supervisor, and Dr. Chuan Xiao as co-supervisor. He also performed research at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) under a project led by A/Prof. Kerry Taylor and National Information and Communication Technology Australia (NICTA, now Data61@CSIRO) under a project lead by A/Prof. Jian Zhang. Prior to that, he got his Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems Engineering at NUDT in 2008.

He is a distinguished member of China Computer Federation (CCF), the deputy secretary general of CCF Technical Committee on Information Systems, a member of CCF Expert Committee on Big Data, an executive member of CCF Technical Committee on Databases and Data Governance Development Committee, a member of Technical Committees on Language and Knowledge Computing, and BigSearch, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, and a member of society council of Management Science and Engineering of China. He was selected for the project for high-level young talents of Ministry of Education of China (国家级青年人才, 2020) and Young Talents Lift-up Program (中国科协青托, 2018) of China Association for Science and Technology, also a recipient of National Key R&D Program for Young Scientists (青年科学家, 2022), Hunan Provincial Leading Talents (湖南省领军人才, 2023)， Hunan Provincial Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (湖南省杰青, 2019), CICC Youth Science and Technology Award (青年科技奖, 2024), ACM SIGMOD China Rising Star Award (新星奖, 2018) and the 1st Prize of Innovation for young faculty at NUDT (青年创新奖, 2020).

Xiang's research interests include: Knowledge Graphs, Advanced Data Management, and World Models.

News

  • 2025/08: Our work have been awarded the Oustanding Sutdent Paper at IEEE DSC 2025!

  • 2025/08: We have four full papers and one short paper accepted by ACM CIKM 2025!

  • 2025/06: We have an article on graph clustering in press in IEEE TPDS!

  • 2025/06: We have an article on diffusion prediction in press in IEEE TKDE!

  • 2025/03: We have two full papers, one demo paper and one TKDE poster accepted by IEEE ICDE 2025!

  • 2025/01: We have an oral-full paper on LLMs accepted by The ACM Web Conference 2025!

  • 2024/12: We have a survey on GNNs in press in IEEE TKDE!

  • Monograph on knowledge structurization, on shelf by Science Press. Welcome to read and share!

  • Monograph on entity alignment, freely available at SpringerLink. Welcome to read and share!

  • We created a GitHub repository of resources on task planning leveraging LLMs. Please check it out!

  • Looking for post-docs & students to work on big data, knowledge engineering and LLMs!

Selected Publications (Extended List, @Google Scholar, @DBLP, @ORCID, @AMiner)

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