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Biography
Dr. Yang received his BEng degree in software engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and his PhD degree in computer science from Nanyang Technological University. Prior to joining HKBU, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on developing efficient algorithms and systems for large-scale data management and analysis. His research works have been published in top-tier data management and data mining conferences/journals including SIGMOD, VLDB, TODS, KDD, WWW, etc. He received the VLDB 2021 Best Research Paper Award, the 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, and the Best Paper Award Nominee in WWW 2022.
Research Interests
- Databases and data management: graph query processing, similarity search
- The Web and information retrieval: search and ranking, recommendation, web mining
- Data mining and machine learning: social network analysis, graph representation learning
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University
23 Jul 2016 → 31 Jan 2021
Award Date: 31 Jan 2021
Bachelor, Software Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
15 Aug 2011 → 15 Jun 2015
Award Date: 15 Jun 2015
Keywords
- QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
- QA76 Computer software
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 4 Active
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Anomaly Detection for Large-Scale Text-Attributed Graphs and Its Applications
YANG, R. (PI) & Wang, Q. (PI)
1/05/25 → 30/04/28
Project: Research project
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Federated Graph Management and Querying: Subgraphs, Keywords, and Privacy
HUANG, X. (PI), HU, H. (CoPI), LIU, J. (CoPI), WANG, Q. (CoPI), XU, J. (CoPI), YANG, R. (CoPI) & Ye, Q. (CoPI)
30/06/24 → 29/06/27
Project: Research project
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Realtime Relevance Search over Massive Attributed Graphs
YANG, R. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Research project
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Adaptive Local Clustering over Attributed Graphs
Zheng, H., Yang, R. & Xu, J., 20 May 2025, Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 41st International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2025. Hong Kong: IEEE, p. 2052-2065 14 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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Cequel: Cost-Effective Querying of Large Language Models for Text Clustering
Wang, H., Zhang, T., Yang, R. & Xu, J., 10 Nov 2025, CIKM 2025 - Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 2998–3008 11 p. (CIKM: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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Community-Aware Social Community Recommendation
Jiang, R., Yang, R. & Lin, W., 10 Nov 2025, CIKM 2025 - Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 1179–1189 11 p. (CIKM: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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Diffusion-based Graph-agnostic Clustering
Xie, K., Yang, R. & Wang, S., 22 Apr 2025, Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 1353-1364 12 p. (Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Effective Clustering for Large Multi-Relational Graphs
Lin, X., Jiang, R. & Yang, R., 5 Dec 2025, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data. 3, 6, p. 1-28 28 p., 319.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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