Education
PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (08.2009--08.2014)
Bachelor of Computing (First Class Honors), National University of Singapore (08.2005--07.2009)
Employment
Associate Professor (tenured), Singapore Management University (07.2025--Present)
Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University (07.2018--06.2025)
Data Scientist, DBS Bank Singapore (11.2017--06.2018)
Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR (08.2014--11.2017)
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond (05.2013--08.2013)
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond (05.2011--08.2011)
Research Engineer, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR (08.2009--08.2010)
Honors and Awards
Top 1 Most Influential Papers in WWW'23, Paper Digest, Sep 2024
World's Top 2% Scientist (Single Year), Stanford/Elsevier, 2024
Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, 2021, 2025
Research featured in VLDB'13 Best Papers Collection, 2015
A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (Overseas), 2010--2014
Top Student Medal and Prize in Computer Science, 2009
Baden-Württemberg International Exchange Scholarship, 2008
Dean’s List Awards, 2006/2007/2009
Singapore National Olympiad in Informatics, Gold Award, 2004
Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (Senior), Gold Award and Individual 7th, 2001
Grants and Funding
PI, Pre-training Graph Neural Networks, Ministry of Education, Singapore Tier-2 Fund, SGD 676K, 2023.
Fellow, Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, SGD 30K, 2021
Co-PI, Learning with Less Data, A*STAR AME Programmatic Funds, SGD 8.9M (for Co-PI: SGD 960K), 2021
PI, Few-shot Learning, AI Singapore Research Programme, SGD 500K, 2019
PI, Semantic Learning on Graphs, Ministry of Education Singapore Tier-1 Fund, SGD 100K, 2018
Co-PI, Network Functional Blocks, Alibaba Innovation Research Grant, USD 80K, 2018
Co-PI, Network-based Risk Prediction, DBS Bank Singapore, SGD 400K, 2016
PI, Branch Predictive Analytics, DBS Bank Singapore, SGD 100K, 2015
Academic/Professional Services
Professional Organization
Chapter Secretary, Singapore ACM SIGKDD Chapter, 11.2022--Present
Chapter Membership Chair, Singapore ACM SIGKDD Chapter, 2021--11.2022
Member, ACM
Senior Member, IEEE
Editorial Services
Young Associate Editor, Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), Impact factor 4.2 (2022), 2020--Present
Conference/Workshop Organizing Committee
Volunteers Co-Chair, WWW 2024
PC Co-Chair, Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2023
Workshop Co-Chair, WSDM 2023
Registration Co-Chair, KDD 2021
Co-Chair, the 4th Workshop on Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis and Applications (HENA), co-located with KDD 2021
Conference Program Committee Member
2025: WWW (Area Chair), KDD (Area Chair), ICLR (Area Chair)
2024: CIKM (Senior PC), WWW (Area Chair), SIGIR, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, NeurIPS, ICLR
2023: WWW, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, CIKM, IJCAI, KDD (Applied)
2022: IJCAI, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, WSDM, WWW, SDM, KDD (Applied)
2021: IJCAI (Senior PC), SDM, AAAI, DASFAA, CIKM, ICML, NeurIPS, WSDM, ICLR
2020: ECAI (Senior PC), NIPS, AAAI, CIKM, IJCAI, ASONAM, PAKDD, ACML
2019: AAAI, CIKM, ASONAM
2018: WWW, CIKM, ASONAM, APWeb-WAIM
2017: SIGIR, CIKM, ASONAM, APWeb-WAIM, ADMA
2016: IJCAI, CIKM, ASONAM, APWeb
2015: APWeb
Conference Session Chair
2025: WWW
2024: AAAI, WWW
2023: AAAI, WWW, SIGIR
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb)
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
The Int’l Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB)
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
Neurocomputing
Other Committees and Councils
Member, Computer Science Graduate Student Academic Council, UIUC, 2011--2013
Scientific Outreach Programs
Judge, International Science Youth Forum, 2016
Judge, Singapore Science and Engineering Fair, 2015--2016
Liaison Officer, Global Young Scientist Summit, 2016