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).

Professor Yin has received prestigious honors including the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2021, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2016, multiple UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards (2019, 2024, 2025), IEEE Computer Society's AI's 10 to Watch in 2022, and the 2023 Young Tall Poppy Science Award. His research has won eight best paper awards at international conferences, including Best Student Full Paper at CIKM 2024, Honorable Mention at WSDM 2023, and Best Paper at ICDE 2019. Ten of his papers are recognized as Most Influential by Paper Digest. He serves as Associate Editor for journals like Neural Networks, Science China Information Sciences, Data Science and Engineering, and has been on editorial boards for ACM TOIS and others. As a senior program committee member for AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, SIGIR, WWW, and more, he contributes significantly to the field. Yin has supervised over 20 PhD students to completion, with nine earning Dean's Awards for Outstanding Theses and four securing ARC DECRA Fellowships. His work has been covered by The Australian, SBS Radio, UQ News, and IEEE Computer Society.