Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Emory University
Research Interests
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Emory University
Research Interests
Dr. Liang Zhao is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at Emory University. He was an assistant professor at the Department of IST and CS at George Mason University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree as an Outstanding Doctoral Student in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech in 2017. His research interests include data mining, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, with special interests in spatiotemporal and network data mining, deep learning on graphs, nonconvex optimization, and interpretable machine learning.
He has published over a hundred papers in top-tier conferences and journals such as KDD, ICDM, TKDE, NeurIPS, Proceedings of the IEEE, TKDD, TSAS, IJCAI, AAAI, WWW, CIKM, SIGSPATIAL, and SDM. He won NSF CAREER Award in 2020. He has also won Cisco Faculty Research Award in 2023, Meta Research Award in 2022, Amazon Research Award in 2020, and Jeffress Trust Award in 2019, , and was ranked as one of the "Top 20 Rising Star in Data Mining" by Microsoft Search in 2016. He has won best paper award in ICDM 2022, best poster runner-up in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022, Best Paper Award Shortlist in WWW 2021, Best Paper Candidate in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022, Best Paper Award in ICDM 2019, and best paper candidate in ICDM 2021. He is recognized as "Computing Innovative Fellow Mentor" in 2021 by Computing Research Association. He is a senior member of IEEE.
My group is constantly searching for highly-motivated students. Those who are interested are encouraged to contact me: liang.zhao_at_emory_dot_edu.
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Thrilled to receive Cisco Faculty Research Award from Cisco System Inc.
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| [2022-12] |
Our systematic survey paper on explanation-guided learning is available online.
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| [2022-11] |
Our paper on "Unsupervised Deep Subgraph Anomaly Detection" received Best Paper Award at 22nd International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2022)!
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| [2022-11] |
Our paper on GNN for spatial interpolation first-authored by undergraduate student Minxing Zhang received Best Poster Runner-Up Award at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022! Congratulations to the team.
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| [2022-10] |
Our survey paper on deep graph generation is published at TPAMI!
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| [2022-10] |
Our paper on deep trajectory generation is a Best Paper Candidate (4/160) at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022!
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| [2022-10] |
Our Tutorial on Graph Neural Networks has been accepted in AAAI 2023, see you in Washington, DC in Feb 2023!
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| [2022-09] |
Excited to receive Meta Research Award with Yue Cheng from UVA!
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| [2022-09] |
Two papers are accepted in NeurIPS 2022 on periodic graph generation and controllable data generation.
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| [2022-08] |
Two papers are accepted in SIGSPATIAL 2022 on trajectory generation and spatial data fusion.
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| [2022-08] |
Three papers are accepted in ICDM 2022 on three existing topics: spatial domain generalization, explanation supervision, and analogical reasoning.
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| [2022-07] |
Our systematic survey paper on controllable data generation is available online.
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| [2022-07] |
Welcome to attend our KDD 2022 and IJCAI 2022 tutorials on Graph Neural Networks, and visit our website for materials.
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| [2022-05] |
Our GraphGT Data Repository is online, with 30+ datasets&APIs for graph generation in machine learning!
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| [2022-05] |
Three papers are accepted in KDD 2022 on three exciting areas: explanation supervision, graph inverse problems, and saliency-regularized multitask learning.
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| [2022-01] |
Our new book Graph Neural Network: Foundations, Frontiers, and Applications (689 pages, ISBN-10: 9811660530, Springer) is published. You can also access various resources about it in our book website.
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| [2022-01] |
Our paper "Deep Graph Translation" is accepted in TNNLS.
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| [2021-11] |
Our paper on Heterogeneous Graph Generation is selected as Best Paper Candidate at ICDM 2021!
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| [2021-11] |
Three papers are accepted in AAAI 2022.
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| [2021-10] |
Two papers are accepted in NeurIPS 2021.
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| [2021-08] |
Two papers are accepted in ICDM 2021 on the topics of "heterogeneous graph generation" and "interactive learning for model interpretation".
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| [2021-08] |
Our paper on neuro-inspired machine learning has been accepted by Neural Networks.
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| [2021-07] |
I have been elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
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| [2021-06] |
Dr. Yun Li is named a 2021 Computing Innovation Fellow by CRA and CCC with me as the mentor.
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| [2021-06] |
Our EPIDE website is released: A large data repository for event prediction based on my CSUR paper.
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| [2021-04] |
Our paper on disentangled representation learning won the Best Paper Award Shortlist in WWW 2021!
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| [2021-04] |
Congratulations to Xiaojie Guo on her Ph.D. graduation and her new position in JD.COM as research scientist.
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