Dr. Xiao Shen

Associate Professor

Hainan University shenxiaocam@163.com

Biography

Xiao SHEN is now an Associate Professor at Hainan University. She was a Postdoctoral fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include machine learning and data mining, specialized in graph representation learning, deep learning, transfer learning, and data mining in complex networks.

Xiao SHEN received the Ph.D. degree from Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019, the M.Phil. degree from Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge in 2013, and the B.Sc. degree (with First-Class Honours) from Queen Mary University of London and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2012.

Xiao SHEN received the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, PolyU Scholarship for HK PhD Fellowship students, COMP Scholarship for HK PhD Fellowship students, and the Queen Mary Excellent Academic Performance Scholarship.

I am looking for self-motivated master and Ph.D students. Interested students please send me your CV to shenxiaocam@163.com.

Interests

  • Graph neural networks
  • Cross-network classification
  • Graph contrastive learning

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2019

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, 2013

    University of Cambridge

  • BSc in e-Commerce Engineering, 2012

    Queen Mary University of London & Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

Hainan University

Apr 2021 – Present China
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Mar 2019 – Feb 2021 Hong Kong

News

  1. Our paper “Domain-adaptive Graph Attention-supervised Network for Cross-network Edge Classification” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

    [Paper] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10246298

    [Code] https://github.com/Qqqq-shao/DGASN

  2. Our paper “Neighbor Contrastive Learning on Learnable Graph Augmentation” has been accepted by AAAI 2023.

    [Paper] https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/26168

    [Code] https://github.com/shenxiaocam/NCLA

Grants

  1. “The Research on Graph Contrastive Learning and Contrastive Domain Adaptation Methods for Cross-network Node Classification”, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62362020), 2024/01-2027/12, PI.

  2. “The Research on Key Technologies of Cross-network Representation Learning based on the Integration of Graph Neural Network and Domain Adaptation”, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62102124), 2022/01-2024/12, PI.

  3. “The Research on Key Technologies of Cross-Network Representation Learning for Graph Domain Adaptation”, the Research Start-up Fund of Hainan University (No. KYQD(ZR)-22016), 2021/04-2026/04, PI.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

  1. An introduction about our recent AAAI-2023 paper: “Neighbor Contrastive Learning on Learnable Graph Augmentation”.

https://underline.io/lecture/69002-neighbor-contrastive-learning-on-learnable-graph-augmentation

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/m2DksBHOFgGvXJht60EZ1w

  1. An introduction about our papers on cross-network node classification : the CDNE and ACDNE models.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/LUnwwoeU7ZRNyOgGfCc7Pg

Publications

[1] Xiao Shen*, Mengqiu Shao, Shirui Pan, Laurence T. Yang, and Xi Zhou. Domain-adaptive Graph Attention-supervised Network for Cross-network Edge Classification. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023.

[2] Xiao Shen, Dewang sun, Shirui Pan, Xi Zhou, and Laurence T. Yang. Neighbor Contrastive Learning on Learnable Graph Augmentation. In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 9782-9791, 2023.

[3] Xiao Shen, Shirui Pan, Kup-Sze Choi, Xi Zhou*. Domain-adaptive Message Passing Graph Neural Network. Neural Networks, vol. 164, pp. 439-454, 2023.

[4] Quanyu Dai, Xiao-Ming Wu, Jiaren Xiao, Xiao Shen*, Dan Wang. Graph Transfer Learning via Adversarial Domain Adaptation with Graph Convolution. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 4908-4922, 2023.

[5] Xiao Shen, Quanyu Dai*, Sitong Mao, Fu-lai Chung, and Kup-Sze Choi, Network Together: Node Classification via Cross-network Deep Network Embedding, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1935-1948, 2021.

[6] Quanyu Dai, Xiao Shen, Zimu Zheng, Liang Zhang, Qiang Li, and Dan Wang, Adversarial Training Regularization for Negative Sampling Based Network Embedding, Information Sciences, vol. 579, pp. 199-217, 2021.

[7] Xiao Shen, Quanyu Dai, Fu-lai Chung, Wei Lu, and Kup-Sze Choi, Adversarial deep network embedding for cross-network node classification, Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.04.

[8] Xiao Shen, and Fu-Lai Chung*, Deep Network Embedding for Graph Representation Learning in Signed Networks, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCyb), vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1556-1568, 2020.

[9] Xiao Shen, Sitong Mao, and Fu-lai Chung*, Cross-network Learning with Fuzzy Labels for Seed Selection and Graph Sparsification in Influence Maximization, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS), vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 2195-2208, 2020.

[10] Quanyu Dai, Xiao Shen, Liang Zhang, Qiang Li, Dan Wang, Adversarial Training Methods for Network Embedding, Proceedings of the International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), 2019.05.

[11] Sitong Mao, Xiao Shen, Fu-lai Chung, Deep Domain Adaptation based on Multi-layer Joint Kernelized Distance, Proceedings of International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2018.06.

[12] Xiao Shen, Fu-lai Chung, and Sitong Mao, Leveraging Cross-network Information for Graph Sparsification in Influence Maximization, Proceedings of International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017.07.

[13] Xiao Shen, and Fu-lai Chung, Deep Network Embedding with Aggregated Proximity Preserving, Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2017.08.

Academic Services

Program Chair (Conference)

• The 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (IEEE DSS-2021)

Program Committee Member (Conference)

• ACM SIGKDD CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING (KDD), 2023

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021, 2022, 2023

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021, 2022, 2023

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

Honors & Awards

  1. The Nanhai Xinxing Technology Innovation Talent Scheme, awarded by Hainan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, 2023.
  2. University-level Outstanding High-level Talents, awarded by Hainan University, 2022.
  3. IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, awarded by 2021 IEEE Hyper-Intelligence Congress, 2021.
  4. Postdoctoral Hub, The Hong Kong Technology Talent Scheme, awarded by Innovation and Technology Commission, The Government of The Hong Kong SAR, 2019-2021.
  5. The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS), awarded by the Research Grants Council, The Government of The Hong Kong SAR, 2015-2018.
  6. COMP Scholarship for HK PhD Fellowship students, awarded by the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015-2018.
  7. PolyU Scholarship for HK PhD Fellowship student, awarded by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015-2018.
  8. Excellent Academic Performance Scholarship, awarded by Queen Mary University of London, 2011-2012.