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[2021-02]
I am grateful for receiving AWS Machine Learning Research Award!
[2023-01]
Thrilled to receive Cisco Faculty Research Award from Cisco System Inc.
[2022-12]
[2022-11]
Our paper on "Unsupervised Deep Subgraph Anomaly Detection" received Best Paper Award at 22nd International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2022)!
[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.
[2022-10]
Our survey paper on deep graph generation is published at TPAMI!
[2022-10]
Our paper on deep trajectory generation is a Best Paper Candidate (4/160) at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022!
[2022-10]
Our Tutorial on Graph Neural Networks has been accepted in AAAI 2023, see you in Washington, DC in Feb 2023!
[2022-09]
Excited to receive Meta Research Award with Yue Cheng from UVA!
[2022-09]
Two papers are accepted in NeurIPS 2022 on periodic graph generation and controllable data generation.
[2022-08]
Two papers are accepted in SIGSPATIAL 2022 on trajectory generation and spatial data fusion.
[2022-08]
Three papers are accepted in ICDM 2022 on three existing topics: spatial domain generalization, explanation supervision, and analogical reasoning.
[2022-07]
[2022-07]
Welcome to attend our KDD 2022 and IJCAI 2022 tutorials on Graph Neural Networks, and visit our website for materials.
[2022-05]
Our GraphGT Data Repository is online, with 30+ datasets&APIs for graph generation in machine learning!
[2022-05]
Three papers are accepted in KDD 2022 on three exciting areas: explanation supervision, graph inverse problems, and saliency-regularized multitask learning.
[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.
[2022-01]
Our paper "Deep Graph Translation" is accepted in TNNLS.
[2021-11]
Our paper on Heterogeneous Graph Generation is selected as Best Paper Candidate at ICDM 2021!
[2021-11]
Three papers are accepted in AAAI 2022.
[2021-10]
Two papers are accepted in NeurIPS 2021.
[2021-08]
Two papers are accepted in ICDM 2021 on the topics of "heterogeneous graph generation" and "interactive learning for model interpretation".
[2021-08]
Our paper on neuro-inspired machine learning has been accepted by Neural Networks.
[2021-07]
I have been elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
[2021-06]
Dr. Yun Li is named a 2021 Computing Innovation Fellow by CRA and CCC with me as the mentor.
[2021-06]
Our EPIDE website is released: A large data repository for event prediction based on my CSUR paper.
[2021-04]
Our paper on disentangled representation learning won the Best Paper Award Shortlist in WWW 2021!
[2021-04]
Congratulations to Xiaojie Guo on her Ph.D. graduation and her new position in JD.COM as research scientist.
[2021-02]
Our paper "Deep Graph Transformation for Attributed, Directed, and Signed Networks" has been accepted by Knowledge and Information Systems as Bests of ICDM!
[2021-02]
My work "Event Prediction in the Big Data Era: A Systematic Survey" has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (IF: 7.990)!
[2021-01]
Two papers are accepted in WWW 2021: one is for temporal graph deep generative models, the other is on disentangled representation learning for COVID-19 analysis.
[2021-01]
A paper on "Property Controllable Variational Autoencoder via Invertible Mutual Dependence" has been accepted in ICLR 2021.
[2020-12]
A paper on "Deep Graph Spectral Evolution Networks for Graph Topological Evolution" has been accepted in AAAI 2021.
[2020-12]
A paper on "Disentangled Dynamic Graph Deep Generation" has been accepted in SDM 2021.
[2020-08]
[2020-08]
Two papers on Model-parallelism Deep Learning and Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks are accepted in ICDM 2020.
[2020-08]
I am grateful for receiving a research grant ($498K) from NSF on the project III: Small: Deep Generative Models for Temporal Graph Generation and Interpretation.
[2020-07]
[2020-07]
[2020-07]
I am grateful for receiving a research grant ($499K) from NSF on the project "DeepJIMU: Model-Parallelism Infrastructure for Large-scale Deep Learning by Gradient-Free Optimization"!
[2020-07]
I am grateful for receiving a research grant ($510K) from Knowledge Design Company on the project "Secure Model and Learning protected Hardware Design"!
[2020-07]
My student Qingzhe Li has passed his final defense. Congratulations, Dr. Li!
[2020-06]
[2020-05]
KDD paper got accepted and reported in news media.
[2020-04]
I am the Publicity Chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020. Look forward to your submissions and attendance!
[2020-04]
I am the Co-Chair of DeepSpatial 2020, an ACM SIGKDD 2020 Workshop on "Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Applications, and Systems". Look forward to your submissions and attendance!
[2020-04]
I am the Co-Editor of the Special Issue of Representation Learning for Graph Mining and Generation in Frontiers in Big Data. Welcome your submissions!
[2020-04]
I am the Co-Editor of the Special Issue of Deep Learning for Molecular Structure Modelling in Molecules (Impact Factor: 3.060). Welcome your submissions!
[2020-03]
Survey, code, and datasets are available on the domain of "Deep Graph Generation and Transformation".
[2020-03]
Survey, code, and datasets are available on the domain of "Spatial and Temporal Event Prediction".
[2020-03]
Survey, code, and datasets are available on the domain of "Social Media Mining". 
[2020-03]
Survey, code, and datasets are available on the domain of "Gradient-free Optimization for Deep Neural Networks".
[2020-02]
One paper is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
[2020-01]
Students Xiaojie Guo, Yuyang Gao, and Junxiang Wang will go for research-track internship at IBM Research, Microsoft Research, and NEC Lab in Summer 2020, respectively.
[2020-01]
One paper is accepted at TKDE.
[2019-12]
One paper is accepted at AAAI 2020.
[2019-12]
Two papers are accepted in DATE 2020. 
[2019-11]
[2019-09]
One paper is accepted in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019.
[2019-08]
Three papers are accepted in ICDM 2019, papers and code will be available soon.
[2019-08]
Two papers are accepted in CIKM 2019, papers and code will be available soon.
[2019-08]
The code of our KDD 2019 paper is available. Welcome to use and let us know if there is any question.
[2019-07]
The website of our KDD 2019 tutorial on "Spatiotemporal Societal Event Forecasting and Precusor Learning" is here. Welcome!
[2019-07]
I am the Co-chair of IEEE ICDM 2019 Workshop of DeepSpatial 2019 on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Algorithms, and Sytems. Welcome!
[2019-07]
I am the Co-chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 Workshop of GeoAI 2019. Welcome!
[2019-07]
I am the Co-chair of IEEE Big Data 2019 Workshop of DGLMA 2019 on Deep Graph Learning: Methodologies and Applications, the CFP is here. Welcome!
[2019-07]
The code of our papers of TKDD, IJCAI 2019, and AAAI 2019 has been uploaded. Welcome to use!
[2019-06]
One paper on spatial network inference for spatial autoregressive has been accepted by TSAS.
[2019-05]
Three papers are accepted in IJCAI 2019, papers and code will be available soon.
[2019-05]
Three papers are accepted in KDD 2019, papers and code will be available soon.
[2019-05]
One paper on Deep learning for spatial contact network has been accepted by Geoinformatica.
[2019-04]
One paper on Cost-efficient HPC has been accepted by ICPP 2019 
[2019-03]
Our Tutorial on "Spatiotemporal Societal Event Forecasting and Precusor Learning" in KDD 2019 is accepted, materials will be available soon.
[2018-12]
Our Tutorial on "Big Data Analytics for Societal Event Forecasting" in IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2018.
[2018-11]
Call for papers for 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2018). Deadline: September 12, 2018. Welcome submissions and participations!