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Short Bio

Xiaolong CHEN is currently a year-3 PhD candidate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), majoring in Data Science and Analytics. Before that, he got a master’s degree in Data-Driven Modeling at HKUST in 2022 and bachelor’s degree in Science (majoring in Opto-electronic Information Science and Engineering).
 

Publication

[KDD’25] Xiaolong Chen and Jing Tang. “Scalable Link Recommendation for Influence Maximization”, in Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 2025. (to appear)
[WWW’24] Xiaolong Chen, Yifan Song and Jing Tang. “Link Recommendation to Augment Influence Diffusion with Provable Guarantees”, in Proceedings of The Web Conference 2024.

Awards

Entry Scholarship of MScDDM, 2021-2022
Meritorious Winner of MCM/ICM, 2020.
Zhenzhi Donation Scholarship, 2019-2020.
Third-class Scholarship, 2019-2020.
Third-class Scholarship, 2017-2018.
 

Research Experience

Research Assistant in Vislab
PhD student
2022.02 - 2022.06
2022.09 - now

Projects

  1. The Development of an Extension Chromaticity Experiment Based On Deep Learning, Graduation Project.
  1. Learnovate Fairtest.
  1. Learning to Optimize Next-Best-View for Object Defect Detection.
 

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, DSAA 5002 - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Data Science, HKUST(GZ), 2024 Spring.
Teaching Assistant, INFH 5000 - Information Science and Technology: Essentials and Trends, HKUST(GZ), 2024 Fall.
Teaching Assistant, DSAA 2043 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms, HKUST(GZ), 2024 Fall.

Professional Services

Reviewer
CIKM: 2024
SIGKDD: 2025