2015.10-2019.10 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Cambridge (Supervisor: Prof. Cecilia Mascolo)
2014.10-2015.9 M.Phil. in Land Economy Research, University of Cambridge
2009.9-2014.7 B.Eng. in Urban Planning, Harbin Institute of Technology
Work Experience
2021.3-Present Renmin University of China, Assistant Professor
2018.6–2018.9 Microsoft Research Asia, Social Computing Group, Visiting Scholar (Mentor: Dr. Xing Xie)
2020.2-2021.2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Researcher
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
Urban Computing
Human Mobility
Recommender Systems
Social Networks
Large Language Models-based Applications
Teaching
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for the Social Sciences (General Education Core Course)
Smart Cities
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Research Projects
(1) Project: Intelligent Health Management Assistant and Question-Answering System based on Large-scale Models (PI); Funding Agencies: OPPO Guangdong Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
(2) Project: Research on Distributed Native Graph Storage and Computing Method for Graph Learning (PARTICIPANT); Funding Agencies: Natural Science Foundation of China.
(3) Project: Early Detection and Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Multimodal Learning (PI); Funding Agencies: Natural Science Foundation of China.
(4) Project: Smart Health Research in Cities Based on Multimodal Perception and Fusion Technology (PI); Funding Agencies: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Research Funds of Renmin University of China.
(5) Project: Online Video Game Recommender Systems (PI); Funding Agencies: China Unicom.
(6) Project: The Effect of Policies & Human Mobility on the COVID-19 Epidemic (PI); Funding Agencies: MIT.
(7) Project: The Changes in Physical Place & Digital Communication during the COVID Period (PARTICIPANT); Funding Agencies: MIT.
PUBLICATIONS
2024
Tail-STEAK: Improve Friend Recommendation for Tail Users via Self-Training Enhanced Knowledge Distillation
Yijun Ma, Chaozhuo Li, Xiao Zhou*.
In Proceedings of the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024).
.In Proceedings of 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018). July 2018.
Discovering Latent Patterns of Urban Cultural Interactions in WeChat for Modern City Planning
.In Proceedings ofInternational Conference on Frontiers of Data Science for Government: Ideas, Practices, and Projections (Data for Policy 2016). September 2016.
2014
Conservation and Utilisation of Revolutionary Sites Based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Analysis
Xiao Zhou, Shuyuan Li, Huiwen He, Ming Lu.
(in Chinese).InProceedingsof Annual National Planning Conference 2014. September2014.
Services
Executive Member of Ubiquitous Computing Committee at China Computer Federation (CCF)
SPC/PC/Reviewer: Nature Communications; TheWebConf; KDD; AAAI; IJCAI; RecSys; PAKDD; TKDE; TIST; Pervasive and Mobile Computing; EPJ Data Science; Future Cities Challenge; Netmob conference.