Rate My Professor Hongzhi Yin

Professor Hongzhi Yin serves as an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland, Australia, and director of the Responsible Big Data Intelligence Lab. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Postgraduate Diploma from Peking University, where his 2014 PhD thesis earned the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award and a nomination for the CCF Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Yin's academic interests include recommender systems and user modeling, graph mining and embedding, decentralized and federated learning, edge machine learning and applications, trustworthy machine learning, QA, chatbots, information retrieval, time series and sequence mining and prediction, spatiotemporal data mining, and smart healthcare. With over 360 publications in leading conferences and journals such as ICML, KDD, SIGIR, WWW, NeurIPS, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, he boasts an h-index of 88 and exceeds 25,000 citations. Prominent works encompass the book "Spatio-temporal recommendation in social media" (Springer, 2016), "LCARS: A location-content-aware recommender system" (KDD 2013), and "Socially-aware self-supervised tri-training for recommendation" (KDD 2021).