Rate My Professor Janxin Li

Professor Jianxin (Kevin) Li is the Professor of Information Systems in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Swinburne University of Technology in 2009. With more than 16 years of teaching experience in data science, artificial intelligence, and business intelligence across several Australian universities, he is one of the worldwide recognised scholars in the fields of information systems and data science. His research specializations encompass business analytics and intelligence, applied data science and AI in transportation, multimodal data management and retrieval, social network data exploration and social influence analytics, knowledge graph representation learning, entity and relation enrichment, and heterogeneous information network data for decision making. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier venues such as SIGMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, ACM WWW, SIGKDD, ACM CIKM, and IEEE TKDE, with 12 papers recognized as Highly Cited or Hot Papers between 2020 and 2024. Notable publications include "Attacks and Detections in Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Analysis for Models, Progresses, and Trends" (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2026), "HyCubE: Efficient Knowledge Hypergraph 3D Circular Convolutional Embedding" (IEEE TKDE, 2025), "Session-Oriented Fairness-Aware Recommendation via Dual Temporal Convolutional Networks" (IEEE TKDE, 2025), and many others in leading journals.

Professor Li has secured over 10 external grants totaling approximately 1.7 million AUD, including two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects and three Linkage Projects. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Array and Associate Editor for Information Systems, Knowledge-based Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and World Wide Web Journal. He has chaired program committees for ADMA 2019, APWeb-WAIM 2023, and more than 10 workshops since 2014, and is a Committee Member of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems since 2024. His achievements include the Best Demo Paper Award at The Web Conference (2017), World Top 2% Scientists (Stanford, 2023), Most Influential Paper of the Last Decade (Information Systems Journal, 2025), and recognition as Field Leader in Databases and Information Systems among Australia’s Top 250 Researchers (The Australian Research Magazine, 2026). PhD students he supervises have won several best paper awards.