Xiangguo Sun

1. Professional Routines

2022.05-present:

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow. with Prof. Hong Cheng(程鴻).

2022.04-2022.05 (two months):

Zhejiang Lab (之江實驗室). Visiting Researcher at Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence (人工智能研究院). with Chief Scientist Prof. Hongyang Chen (陳紅陽)

2021.08 - 2022.02 (six months):

Microsoft Research Asia, Research Intern in DKI group. with Dr. Hang Dong (董航) and Dr. Bo Qiao (喬波)

2019.09 - 2021.09 (two years):

The University of Queensland (UQ), Joint Ph.D. student. supervisor: Prof. Hongzhi Yin (陰紅志)

2018.03 - 2022.03 (four years):

Southeast University (SEU), Ph.D. student. supervisor: Prof. Bo Liu (劉波)

2016.09 - 2018.03 (one and a half years):

Southeast University (SEU), Master Candidate. Computer Science

2012.09 - 2016.09 (four years):

Dalian University of Technology (DUT), B.S. Electronic Information Engineering

2. Research

2.1. Featured Publications

This guy is so weak now and hasn't found any featured paper as the first author. : )

2.2. Papers (updated in Jan. 2023)

1. Xiangguo Sun, Hong Cheng, Bo Liu, Jia Li, Hongyang Chen, Guandong Xu, Hongzhi Yin. Self-supervised Hypergraph Representation Learning for Sociological Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank A, SCI Q1)
2. Xiangguo Sun, Hong Cheng, Hang Dong, Bo Qiao, Si Qin, Qingwei Lin. Counter-Empirical Attacking based on Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Time-Relevant Scoring System. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). (under review)
3. Xiangguo Sun, Hongzhi Yin, Bo Liu, Qing Meng, Jiuxin Cao, Alexander Zhou, Hongxu Chen. Structure Learning via Meta-Hyperedge for Dynamic Rumor Detection. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank A, SCI Q1)
4. Xiangguo Sun, Hongzhi Yin, Bo Liu, Hongxu Chen, Wang Han, Qing Meng, Jiuxin Cao, Multi-level Hyperedge Distillation for Social Linking Prediction on Sparsely Observed Networks, The Web Conference 2021 (WWW2021) (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank A, THU Rank A, acceptance rate 20.6%)
5. Xiangguo Sun, Hongzhi Yin, Bo Liu, Hongxu Chen, Jiuxin Cao, Yingxia Shao, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung. Heterogeneous Hypergraph Embedding for Graph Classification, the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2021), Jerusalem, Israel, 2021. (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank B, THU Rank A, acceptance rate 18.6%, code)
6. Xiangguo Sun, Bo Liu, Liya Ai, Danni Liu, Qing Meng, Jiuxin Cao. In Your Eyes: Modality Disentangling for Personality Analysis in Short Video. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 2022. (SCI Q2)
7. Bo Liu, Xiangguo Sun, Qing Meng, Xinyan Yang, Yang Lee, Jiuxin Cao, Junzhou Luo, Roy Ka-We Lee. Nowhere to Hide: Online Rumor Detection based on Retweeting Graph Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2022. (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank B, SCI Q1. The first author is my supervisor.)
8. Zhihong Cui, Xiangguo Sun, Shijun Liu, Guandong Xu. Event-based Incremental Recommendation with Social Factor Decomposition. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TNNLS). (corresponding author, CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank B, SCI Q1, under review).
9. Zhihong Cui, Xiangguo Sun, Hongxu Chen, Li Pan, Lizhen Cui, Shijun Liu, Guandong Xu. Dynamic Recommendation based on Graph Diffusion and Ebbinghaus Curve. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. (corresponding author, SCI Q2, under review).
10. Chengzhi Piao, Tingyang Xu, Xiangguo Sun, Yu Rong, Kangfei Zhao, Hong Cheng. Computing Graph Edit Distance via Neural Graph Matching. PVLDB (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank A)
11. Sixiao Zhang, Hongxu Chen, Xiangguo Sun, Yicong Li and Guandong Xu. Unsupervised Graph Poisoning Attack via Contrastive Loss Back-propagation. The Web Conference 2022 (WWW2022) (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank A, THU Rank A.)
12. Hongxu Chen, Hongzhi Yin, Xiangguo Sun, Tong Chen, Bogdan Gabrys and Katarzyna Musial. Multi-level Graph Convolutional Networks for Cross-platform Anchor Link Prediction. 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2020), San Diego, USA. August 2020. (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank A, THU Rank A, acceptance rate 16.8%).
13. Hongxu Chen, Yicong Li, Xiangguo Sun, Guandong Xu and Hongzhi Yin. Temporal Meta-path Guided Explainable Recommendation, the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2021), Jerusalem, Israel, 2021. (CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank B, THU Rank A, acceptance rate 18.6%)
14. Yicong Li, Hongxu Chen, Xiangguo Sun, Zhenchao Sun, Lin Li, Lizhen Cui, Phillip Yu, and Guandong Xu. Hyperbolic Hypergraphs for Sequential Recommendation. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2021), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 1-5 November 2021. (CORE Rank A, CCF Rank B, acceptance rate 21.7%).
15. Qing Meng, Bo Liu, Xiangguo Sun, Hui Yan, Chengyu Liang, Jiuxin Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee. Attention-Fused Deep Relevancy Matching Network for Clickbait Detection. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 2022. (SCI Q2)
16. Haoran Yang, Hongxu Chen, Sixiao Zhang, Xiangguo Sun, Qian Li, Xiangyu Zhao, Guandong Xu. Generating Counterfactual Hard Negative Samples for Graph Contrastive Learning. The Web Conference 2023.(CORE Rank A+, CCF Rank A, THU Rank A)
17. Sixiao Zhang, Hongxu Chen, Haoran Yang, Xiangguo Sun, Philip S. Yu, Guandong Xu. Graph Masked Autoencoders with Transformers. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD, SCI Q1, CORE Rank B, CCF Rank B). (under review)
18. Qing Meng, Hui Yan, Bo Liu, Xiangguo Sun, Jiuxin Cao. Recognize News Transition from Collective Behavior for News Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2022. (CORA Rank A, CCF Rank A, SCI Q1)
19. Xiangguo Sun, Bo Liu, Qing Meng, Jiuxin Cao, Junzhou Luo, Hongzhi Yin. Group-level Personality Detection based on Text Generated Networks. World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ),2020, 23, 1887–1906 ( CORE Rank A, CCF Rank B, SCI Q2)
20. Yuanshen Guan, Xiangguo Sun, Yongjiao Sun. Sparse Relation Prediction based on Hypergraph Neural Networks in Online Social Networks. World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ). 2021. (corresponding author, co-first author. CORE Rank A, CCF Rank B, SCI Q2)
21. Bo Liu, Xiangguo Sun, Zeyang Ni, Jiuxin Cao, Junzhou Luo, Benyuan Liu, Xinwen Fu. Co-Detection of Crowdturfing Microblogs and Spammers in Online Social Networks. World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ). 2020, 23, 573–607 (The first author is my supervisor, CORE Rank A, CCF Rank B, SCI Q2)
22. Yingying Xue, Aibo Song, Xiaolin Fang, Yingxue Zhang, Xiangguo Sun, Jiahui Jin. Intra- and Inter- Semantic with Multi-scale Evolving Patterns for Dynamic Graph Learning. Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2022. (SCI Q1, 中科院1区)
23. Qing Meng, Bo Liu, Hengyuan Zhang, Xiangguo Sun, Jiuxin Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Multi-dimensional Social Group Influence Modeling and Analysis in Online Social Networks. Chinese Journal of Computers, 2021 (CCF Rank A Chinese Branch) /孟青,刘波,张恒远,孙相国,曹玖新,李嘉伟,在线社交网络中群体影响力的建模与分析,计算机学报.
24. Xiaorong Hao, Xinyan Yang, Bo Liu, Xiangguo Sun, Qing Meng, and Jiuxin Cao. Multi-stage Dynamic Disinformation Detection with Graph Entropy Guidance. World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ). (CORE Rank A, CCF Rank B, SCI Q2. under review)
25. Bo Liu, Shijiao Tang, Xiangguo Sun, Qiaoyun Chen, Jiuxin Cao, Junzhou Luo, Shanshan Zhao. Context-aware social media user sentiment analysis. Tsinghua Science and Technology. 2020, 25(4): 528-541. (THU Rank B, SCI Q2)​
26. Qing Meng, Junzhou Luo, Bo Liu, Xiangguo Sun, Jiuxin Cao. Quantifying Group Influence on Individuals in Online Social Networks. 2019 Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). IEEE ISCC 2019. (CORE Rank B, CCF Rank C)​
27. Xiangguo Sun, Bo Liu, Jiuxin Cao, Junzhou Luo, Xiaojun Shen. Who Am I? Personality Detection Based on Deep Learning for Texts. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 18). IEEE, 2018. (CCF Rank C, THU Rank B)​

2.3. Served Proposals

1. Crowd-sourcing sensing-based trustworthy location service in mobile social network, NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) under Grants No. 61370208. I worked as a new staff listed in the project report.
2. Multi-dimensional User Portrait based Anomalous Behavior Detection in Social Media. NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) under Grants No. 61972087, 2020.1~2023.12. I worked as the backbone staff listed in the project. (3/9)

(Click to see CCF Ranking, CCF Ranking-Chinese Branch,  CORE Ranking, and THU Ranking)

3. Co-operation Networks:

Academic Faculties

• Hong Cheng/程鸿: Prof. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Hongzhi Yin/阴红志: ARC Future Fellow, the University of Queensland, Australia
• Philip S. Yu/俞士纶: Distinguished Prof. University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Guandong Xu/徐贯东: Prof. University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Hongxu Chen/陈红旭: Data Scientist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• Bo Liu/刘波, Jiuxn Cao/曹玖新, and Junzhou Luo/罗军舟: Prof. Southeast University, China
• Yingxia Shao/邵蓥侠: A/Prof. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
• Jia Li/李佳: Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology-Guangzhou
• Hongyang Chen/陈红阳: Researcher, Zhejiang Lab
• Hang Dong/董航: Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Bo Qiao/乔波: Research SDE, Microsoft Research
• Si Qin: Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Qingwei Lin/林庆维: Sr. Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research
• Tingyang Xu: Tencent AI Lab
• Yu Rong/荣钰: Tencent AI Lab
• Kangfei Zhao: Tencent AI Lab
• Aibo Song/宋爱波, Xiaolin Fang/方效林, and Jiahui Jin/金嘉晖: Southeast University, China
• Xiaojun Shen/沈孝钧: Tenured Professor at the University of Missouri, USA
• Tong Chen: Lecture. the University of Queensland, Australia
• Bogdan Gabrys, and Katarzyna Musial: University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Benyuan Liu/, and Xinwen Fu: Prof. University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
• Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung: Senior Lecturer, Griffith University, Australia
• Roy Ka-Wei Lee: Assistant Prof. Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Li Pan, Lizhen Cui, and Shijun Liu/刘士军: Prof. Shandong University, China
• Xiangliang Zhang: A/Prof. KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• Yongjiao Sun: A/Prof. Northeastern University, China
• Shanshan Zhao: Lecture, University of the West of England, UK
• Qian Li: Lecturer, Curtin University, Australia

Colleagues Pursuing PhD

• Miss Quan Zhou (Ph.D. student, University College Dublin, Ireland).
• Miss Zhihong Cui (Ph.D. student. Shandong University, China).
• Mr. Haoran Yang (Ph.D. student, University of Technology Sydney, Australia).
• Mr. Zhenchao Sun (Ph.D. student, Shandong University, China).
• Mr. Qing Meng (Ph.D. student, Southeast University, China).
• Mr. Alexander Zhou (Ph.D. student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
• Mr. Chengzhi Piao (Ph.D. student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Student Supervision:

Mr. Yanyi Pu:

• Ph.D. student, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, I worked with him as his vice supervisor;
• [now] Ph.D. student, University of Cambridge.

Mr. Sixiao Zhang

• Ph.D. student, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, I worked with him as his vice supervisor;
• [now] Ph.D. student, ​Nanyang Technological University, Singapore).

Miss Yicong Li:

• Ph.D. student, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, I worked with her as her vice supervisor.

Miss Dannie Liu, Mr. Taoran Wang, and Mr. Yulin Zhang:

• Master student, Southeast University, China. I worked with them as their vice supervisor

4. Teaching:

teaching assistant

• INFS7450 at The University of Queensland - Social Media Analytics Semester 1, 2020. (Teaching Assistant, I got 5 stars feedback from my students, see the details report).
• INFS7450 at The University of Queensland - Social Media Analytics Semester 1, 2021. (Teaching Assistant, I got 5 stars feedback from my students, see the details report).

supervised student project

• Yixuan Long (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Jiarui Wang (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Shibo Jin (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Behrad Ahmadpour (Sharif University of Technology, Iran), Arvindh A (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Aarya Chaumal (College of Engineering Pune, India). I worked with them as their tutor in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program 2022 hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

5. Awards:

• Education Foundation Scholarship in Southeast University/(电科十四所)教育基金会奖学金. 2021.11.16 (only 3 winners in School of Computer Science & Engineering, Southeast University.)
• Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students in Southeast University/学业奖学金一等. 2021.10 (The First Prize Scholarship, only 2 winners in School of Computer Science & Engineering.)
• Distinguished Reviewer Award in BESC 2020. 2020.10.30 (only 8 PC members won this award)
• Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students in Southeast University/学业奖学金. 2020.10.19.
• Education Foundation Scholarship in Southeast University/(电科十四所)教育基金会奖学金. 2020.10.15. (only 3 winners in the School of Computer Science & Engineering, Southeast University.)
• National Scholarship for Graduate Student/国家奖学金. 2019.10 (only 3 winners in School of Computer Science & Engineering, Southeast University.)
• Education Foundation Scholarship in Southeast University/(华为)教育基金会奖学金. 2019.4.12. (only 3 winners in the School of Computer Science & Engineering, Southeast University.)
• Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students in Southeast University/学业奖学金一等. 2019.10.23. (The First Prize Scholarship, only 2 winners in the School of Computer Science & Engineering.)
• Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students in Southeast University/博士新生奖学金. 2018.10.23.
• Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students in Southeast University/学业奖学金. 2017.10.23.
• National Mathematical Modeling Contest for Graduate Students/数学建模竞赛三等. 2017.3.23. (the third prize)
• Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students in Southeast University/新生奖学金. 2016.10.23.

6. Invited Talks:

• 8th national social media processing conference (SMP2019, 第8届全国社会媒体处理大会). 2019.08.16-18. Chinese information association, Shenzhen. (Oral: User portrait system and behavior analysis in online social networks.)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, 20-24 May 2018, (Full paper report: Who Am I? Personality detection based on deep learning for texts.)
• 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'20), San Diego, USA. August 2020. (Full paper report: Bogdan Gabrys and Katarzyna Musial. Multi-level Graph Convolutional Networks for Cross-platform Anchor Link Prediction. )
• 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2021), Jerusalem, Israel, 2021. (Full paper report: Heterogeneous Hypergraph Embedding for Graph Classification.)
• The Web Conference 2021 (WWW2021) (Full paper report: Multi-level Hyperedge Distillation for Social Linking Prediction on Sparsely Observed Networks )

7. Invited reviewer:​

• SIGIR 2021
• SIGKDD 2020; 2021; 2022
• ICDE 2021
• VLDB 2022;
• TheWebConf 2023
• DASFAA 2020; 2023
• TNNLS
• WISE 2020
• Information Processing and Management (IPM);
• Springer Nature Computer Science
• The 19th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL2020)
• The 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA2020)
• World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWWJ)
• The 16th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications. (ADMA2020)
• 7th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2020)
• APWeb-WAIM2022.
• Expert Systems With Applications

Also review papers from AAAI, Computers and Security, Computer Networks, Journal of computer science and technology (JCST), International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), Journal of Social Computing (JSC), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), IEEE Access, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI). ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 计算机学报, etc.

8. Program Committee Member/Chair:

• 7th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2020), 5-7 November 2020, Bournemouth, United Kingdom. (PC member)
• The 19th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL2020), 31st October-1st November 2020, Haikou, China. (PC member)
• 8th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2021), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, November 9-11, 2021. (Web Chair, and PC member)
• 9th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2022), Ehime, Japan, 29-31 October 2022 (PC member)
• May 30: PC member of ADMA 2022 (CORA B conference)
• Jan 2023: invited as PC Member of KDD2023 (CCF Rank A)

9. Social Issues:

• I served as a part-time Radio Announcer for people with visual impairments in the Jinling Library of Nanjing, China. And my voice record was collected in the album released by the library.