My name is Yuxia Wu, a research scientist at Singapore Management University (SMU), working with Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang. I also closely collaborate with Assistant Prof. Lizi Liao. Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in the area of Computer Science at SMILES lab, Xi’an Jiaotong University, advised by Prof. Xueming Qian. I also hold a Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering.

Research interests:

  • Recommendation System: Sequential recommendation; Conversational recommendation; Explainable recommendation
  • Conversational AI: Task-oriented dialog system; Conversational understanding
  • Graph data mining: Dynamic graph modeling; LLM for graphs
  • Spatial-Temporal: Human mobility; Smart cities; Event forecasting

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” – “Speak, Memory” by Vladimir Nabokov.

🔥 News

  • [09/2024]: We have two papers accepted by EMNLP’24. Congrats to Yimin (one paper about new intent discovery, accepted as Findings) and Jinggui (the first survey paper about ontology expansion for conversational understanding)!
  • [07/2024]: I was awarded Best Poster Presentation at Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2024! Thanks for everyone!
  • [05/2024]: Check out our Tutorials “Towards Graph Foundation Models” (Part I, Part II & Part III) at WWW’24.
  • [03/2024]: Our paper about new slot discovery is accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP).
  • [02/2024]: Our paper about simple Transformer for dynamic graph modeling is accepted by WWW’24.
  • [11/2023]: Our paper about reason generation for POI recommendation is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM).
  • [05/2023]: I started the Research Scientist (Postdoc) position at Singapore Management University.

📝 Research

Selected Papers

Please see my Google Scholar for the full publication list. (* Equal Contribution)

Preprints:

Published:

🙌 Students Co-supervision/Collaboration

  • Jianyuan Bo: PhD at SMU with Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang
  • Sethupathy PARAMESWARAN: Research Engineer at SMU with Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang
  • Shujie Li: Master at BUPT with Prof. Chuan Shi
  • Yuquan Yang: Master at USTC with Prof. Xinming Zhang
  • HOANG Thi Linh: Research Engineer at SMU with Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang
  • Yimin Deng: PhD at XJTU with Prof. Xueming Qian
  • Tianhao Dai: Former Research Engineer at SMU with Assistant Prof. Lizi Liao
  • Qiang Chen: Graduated master at XJTU with Associate Prof. Guoshuai Zhao

🌟 Teaching

  • ISSS609 Text Analytics and Application (Undergraduate), Singapore Management University, Guest Lecturer, 2024
  • COMP 815 Nature Inspired Computing (Postgraduate), Auckland University of Technology, Guest Lecturer, 2024
  • ISSS606 Social Analytics and Applications (Postgraduate), Singapore Management University, Guest Lecturer, 2024
  • COMP 701 Nature Inspired Computing (Undergraduate), Auckland University of Technology, Guest Lecturer, 2024
  • Top-conference Paper Analysis, Beijing, Lecturer, 2022
  • Deep Learning Algorithm, Beijing, Teaching Assistant, 2018 - 2020
  • Video Processing and Communications (Postgraduate), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Teaching Assistant, 2018

🎓 Education

  • 2017.09 - 2023.03, Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
  • 2014.09 - 2017.07, Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering, Air Force Medical University, China.
  • 2010.09 - 2014.07, Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China

🍀 Experience

  • 2023.05 - now, Research Scientist, Singapore Management University. Supervisor: Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang
  • 2021.03 - 2022.10, Research Intern, NExT Research Center, National University of Singapore. Supervisors: Prof. Tat-Seng Chua and Assistant Prof. Lizi Liao
  • 2020.10 - 2021.03, Research Intern, Meituan, Beijing, China. Mentors: Yafeng Zhang, Xuchu Hou, Jinpeng Wang
  • 2020.03 - 2020.10, Project leader collaborated with industry partner Aidigger, Hangzhou, China. Mentors: Xiao Wei

👍 Service

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.” – “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi