Hongzhi Yin

Prof. Hongzhi Yin works as an ARC Future Fellow and Professor and director of the Responsible Big Data & Intelligence Lab (RBDI) at The University of Queensland, Australia. He has made notable contributions to recommendation systems, structured foundation model, spatial-temporal prediction, LLM and ChatBI, and decentralized and edge intelligence. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his research achievements. He has been named to IEEE Computer Society’s AI’s 10 to Watch 2022 and Field Leader of Data Mining & Analysis in The Australian's Research 2020 magazine. In addition, he has received the prestigious 2023 Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2021, the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2016, UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award 2019, 2024 and 2025 Computer Science in Australia Leader Award, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Awards in Data Mining (2022-2026) and Information Retrieval and Recommendation (2025-2026), 2024 and 2025 ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar (top 0.05%). His research has won 8 international and national Best Paper Awards, including Best Student Full Paper Award at CIKM 2024, Best Paper Award - Honorable Mention at WSDM 2023, Best Paper Award at ICDE 2019, Best Student Paper Award at DASFAA 2020, Best Paper Award Nomination at ICDM 2018, ACM Computing Reviews' 21 Annual Best of Computing Notable Books and Articles, Best Paper Award at ADC 2018 and 2016. His Ph.D. thesis won Peking University Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award 2014 and CCF Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Nomination) 2014. He has ten conference papers recognized as the Most Influential Papers in Paper Digest, including KDD 2021 and 2013, AAAI 2021, SIGIR 2022, WWW 2023 and 2021, CIKM 2021, 2019, 2016, and 2015. He has published 300+ papers in CCF A/CORE A* ranked venues, such as ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, SIGIR, WWW, ACL, ICDM, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM Multimedia, ECCV, IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal, and ACM TOIS, achieving an H-index of 93 with over 30,000 citations. He serves as the PC Co-Chair for the top confernces ICDM 2027 and ADMA 2026, and Track Chair/Senior Area Chair for KDD 2027, AAAI 2027, WWW 2027, WWW 2025 and IEEE SSCI 2027. He has also served extensively as an Area Chair/SPC member for many top conferences, such as NeurIPS, KDD, ICDE, SIGIR, WWW, ACL, AAAI, IJCAI, ICDM, ICMR, and CIKM. In addition, he has been serving as Associate Editor/Guest Editor/Editorial Board for Neural Networks (JCR Q1, CCF B, 中科院一区), Science China Information Sciences (JCR Q1, CCF A, 中科院一区), Data Science and Engineering (JCR Q1, 中科院一区), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST, CCF B), Journal of Social Computing, ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2022-2023 (JCR Q1, CCF A, CORE A, 中科院一区), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2020-2021 (JCR Q1), Information Systems 2020-2021 (CORE A*), and World Wide Web 2020-2021 and 2017-2018 (CORE A, CCF B). Dr. Yin has also been attracting wide media coverage, such as The Australian, The Australian Institute of Policy & Science (AIPS), Queensland Government, SBS Radio, UQ News, Sohu News, IEEE Computer Society, ACM Computing Reviews. Structured Foundation Model, Spatial-temporal Prediction, LLM and ChatBI, Recommender System and User Modeling, Edge Machine Learning and Applications, Time Series and Sequence Mining and Prediction, Trustworthy Machine Learning and Applications

[2026] RuleAgent: Discovering Rules for Recommendation Denoising with Autonomous Language Agents [2026] LEFT: Learnable Fusion of Tri-view Tokens for Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection [2026] Learning to Evaluate: Cost-Effective Model Evaluation on Unlabeled Data with Meta-Learning [2026] Efficient prompt learning for traffic forecasting [2026] Handling multiple, dynamic, and interactive personas in LBSNs with graphs of agents [2026] LLM-UP: SIGIR 2026 Workshop on LLM-powered User Profiling for Search and Recommendation [2026] Prompt-Unknown Promotion Attacks against LLM-based Sequential Recommender Systems [2026] ProEchoMem: Enhancing Long Video Understanding via Multi-Trace Probe-Echo Memory [2026] ProMax: Exploring the Potential of LLM-derived Profiles with Distribution Shaping