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Biography
Xin Huang received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014. His research interests include graph data management, graph mining and visualization, social network analysis, and privacy-aware computing. He has published in refereed conferences and journals including SIGMOD, VLDB, WWW, ICDE, CIKM, AAAI, IJCAI, TKDE, TKDD, and VLDBJ. His scholarly works win the Best Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2019), the Best Student Paper Award at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2017), as well as a Best Paper Nomination at the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020). He is a recipient of the RGC Early Career Award and the HKBU President’s Award for Outstanding Performance as Young Researcher.
Research Interests
- Data Management
- Big Graph Mining & Visualization
- Social Network Analysis
- Privacy-Aware Computing
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Graph Matching Optimization: A Multi-Task Framework for Addressing NP-Hard Graph Problems
PIAO, C. (PI) & HUANG, X. (CoI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Research project
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Efficient Community Search over Massive Multi-layer Networks
HUANG, X. (PI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/27
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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Efficient Algorithms for Truss Maintenance over Large Dynamic Graphs
HUANG, X. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Research project
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Interactive Search and Summarization on Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graphs
HUANG, X. (PI)
1/01/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research project
Research Output
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A Unified Framework for Dense Subgraph Maintenance over Dynamic Bipartite Graphs
Sun, Z., Jia, Z., Cheng, H., Huang, X. & Yu, J. X., Feb 2026, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data. 4, 1, p. 1-27 27 p., 4.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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Balancing Global and Local: Representative Sampling for Large-Scale Vector Data
Wu, Z., Song, Y., Zhu, X., Li, H., Xu, J. & Huang, X., Jun 2026, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data. 4, 3, p. 1-27 27 p., 142.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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BAMG: A Block-Aware Monotonic Graph Index for Disk-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Li, H., Huang, X., Choi, B. & Xu, J., 4 May 2026, Proceedings - 2026 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2026. Daudjee, K., Luo, Q. & Simitsis, A. (eds.). Montreal, Canada: IEEE, p. 3433-3445 13 p. (International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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Communication-efficient Federated Graph Classification via Generative Diffusion Modeling
Wang, X., Huang, X., Hu, H. & Xu, J., Aug 2026, KDD 2026: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Vol. 1. p. 1494–1505 12 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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Demonstration of GICS: A User-friendly Interactive Community Search System Over Graphs
Sun, L., Huang, X., Wang, J. & Xu, J., 30 May 2026, SIGMOD Companion 2026 - Companion of the International Conference on Management of Data. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 114-117 4 p. (SIGMOD Companion: Companion of the International Conference on Management of Data).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes
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2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention
HUANG, X. (Recipient), 31 May 2022
Prize: Award
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Best Faculty Article Award
SONG, C. (Recipient), HUANG, X. (Recipient) & XU, J. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Award
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Best Paper Nomination
ZHU, X. (Recipient), HUANG, X. (Recipient), CHOI, B. (Recipient) & XU, J. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Award
Activities
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Data Science and Engineering (Journal)
HUANG, X. (Associate editor)
2 Jan 2025 → …Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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World Wide Web (Journal)
HUANG, X. (Associate editor)
12 Jul 2024 → …Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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Frontiers in Big Data (Journal)
HUANG, X. (Associate editor)
2022 → Oct 2025Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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Data Science and Engineering (Journal)
HUANG, X. (Guest editor)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2020)
HUANG, X. (Session chair)
2020Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units