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Xiang Zhao

Xiang Zhao, PhD UNSW

Professor
- Laboratory for Big Data and Decision, College of Systems Engineering
- 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 College of Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China, where he also serves as the head of the direction of knowledge systems engineering. During 2015-2019, he was also a concurrent research fellow at Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, China, 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 under the supervision of Prof. Qinghua Zheng (郑庆华). In 2013, he got PhD of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, under the supervision of Prof. Xuemin Lin (林学民), and his joint-supervisor is A/Prof. Raymond Wong, co-supervisor is Dr. Chuan Xiao. 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 Sytems, 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), 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 Information Retrieval.

News

  • 2024/03: Invited to serve as a PC member of ACM CIKM 2024.

  • 2024/03: We have three full papers and one poster paper accepted by IEEE ICDE 2024!

  • 2024/01: We have an article on network representation learning in press in ACM TOIS!

  • 2023/12: Invited to serve as a PC member of ACM SIGIR 2024.

  • 2023/09: Invited to serve as an SPC for DASFAA 2024.

  • 2023/08: We have two papers, respectively, on fake news detection and multi-modal NER accepted by CIKM 2023!

  • 2023/05: Invited to serve as a PC member of ACM CIKM 2023.

  • 2023/05: We have a paper on question answering over temporal KGs accepted by ACL 2023!

  • 2023/04: We have an article on graph matching in press in IEEE TKDE!

  • Looking for post-docs & students to work on big data and knowledge engineering. Welcome to drop me a line!

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

Professional Services

Awards and Grants

  • The 1st Prize of CICC Scientific and Technological Progress Award, awarded by Chinese Institute of Command and Control, 2023

  • The 2nd Prize of CCF Natural Science Award, awarded by China Computer Federation, 2022

  • The 2nd Prize of Ministerial and Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress Award, 2020

  • Best Paper Award of WISA 2022

  • Best Paper Award of DASFAA 2021

  • Best Paper Award of APWeb-WAIM 2020

  • Best Student Paper Award of KSEM 2020

  • Best Student Paper Award of ADC 2016

  • The Science and Technology Innovation Program (Leading Talents) of Hunan Province (2023), awarded by Department of Science and Technology of Hunan

  • High-level Young Talents Award Scheme (2020), awarded by Ministry of Education, China

  • Young Talents Lift-up Program (2018), awarded by China Association for Science and Technology

  • ACM SIGMOD China Rising Star Award (2018), awarded by ACM China

  • Co-PI of NSFC Joint Fund for Regional Innovation and Development (2024-2027): Research on Intelligent Computing Fundamental Theories and Key Algorithms for Heterogeneous Big Data, approved by NSFC

  • PI of NSF General Project (2023-2026): Research on Key Technologies of Temporal Knowledge Graphs under Incomplete Information, approved by NSFC

  • PI of National Key R&D Program for Young Scientists (2022-2025): Misinformation Detection and Source Localization Methods in Social Networks under Limited Perception, approved by Ministry of Science and Technology, China

  • Co-PI of NSFC Regional Joint Key Project (2020-2023): Architecture and Resilient Service of Smart Edge Computing for Big Data, approved by NSFC

  • PI of NSFC General Project (2019-2022): Harvest and Utilization of Domain Knowledge Graphs with Scarce Sample Constraints, approved by NSFC

  • PI of Provincial NSF Project for Distinguished Young Scholars (2019-2021): Theory and Method of Graph Data Management and Analytics for Cognitive Intelligence of Intelligence, approved by Department of Science and Technology of Hunan

  • PI of NSFC Project for Young Scholars (2015-2017): Processing Structural Similarity Queries on Large-Scale Graph Data, approved by NSFC

  • PI of Provincial NSF Project for Young Scholars (2015-2017): Frequent Subgraph Mining in Single Massive Graphs, approved by Department of Science and Technology of Hunan