Ph.D. student @ University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Mentor: Xiangnan He (何向南).
Research Interest: Recommender Systems, Data Mining
chongming.gao@gmail.com
Hefei, China
Education
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
2020.09 - 2024.06 (expected)
Ph.D. student in School of Information Science and Technology.
Advisor: Xiangnan HE (何向南).
Research topics: Information Retrieval, Recommender systems.
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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
2016.09 - 2019.07
M.Eng. in Department of Computer Science and Technology.
Supervisor: Junming SHAO (邵俊明).
Thesis: Trajectory Semantic Representation and Location Recommender Systems.
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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
2012.09 - 2016.06
B.Eng. in Yingcai Honors College (An elite program). GPA: 3.81, Ranking: 9/72
Supervisor: Junming SHAO (邵俊明).
Thesis: Synchronization-inspired Co-clustering and Its Application to Gene Data.
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Industry Experiences
Kuaishou 快手
2020.09 – Now
Research Intern 研究实习生
Advisor: 江鹏, 何向南.
Research topics: Interactive/Conversational recommender system.
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Alibaba Damo Academy 阿里巴巴达摩院
2023.03 – Now
Research Intern 研究实习生
Advisor: 陈子谦, 高金杨.
Research topics: AI for social science.
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Alibaba 阿里巴巴
2019.03 – 2019.09
Research Intern 研究实习生.
Advisor: 聂再清.
Research topics: Shared-account-aware recommender system.
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Selected Research
Tutorial
RecSys 2021 Tutorial on Conversational Recommendation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation
RecSys 2021 Tutorial.
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[Slides (3 hours)]
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Resource Paper
KuaiRec: A Fully-observed Dataset and Insights for Evaluating Recommender Systems
CIKM '22
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2022.
Research
Embracing Uncertainty: Adaptive Vague Preference Policy
Learning for Multi-round Conversational Recommendation
Preprint
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[PDF]
Who Are the Best Adopters? User Selection Model for Free Trial Item Promotion
TBD '22
IEEE Transactions on Big Data.
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[PDF]
Semantic Trajectory Representation and Retrieval via Hierarchical Embedding
IS
Information Sciences [J], 2020.
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Revisiting Representation Degeneration Problem in Language Modeling
EMNLP
EMNLP | Findings, 2020.
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Towards Robust Arbitrarily Oriented Subspace Clustering
DASFAA
Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2019.
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[PDF]
| Best Paper
BLOMA: Explain Collaborative Filtering via Boosted Local Rank-One Matrix Approximation
DASFAA
Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2019.
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[poster]
| Short Paper
Semantic Trajectory Compression via Multi-resolution Synchronization-based Clustering
KBS
Knowledge-Based Systems [J], 2020.
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Online Budgeted Least Squares with Unlabeled Data
ICDM
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2019.
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SemiSync: Semi-supervised Clustering by Synchronization
DASFAA
Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2019.
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[PDF]
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Synchronization-inspired Co-clustering and Its Application to Gene Expression Data
ICDM
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2017.
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[PDF]
Awards & Honors
2019 | One of our papers won the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award of SIGIR 2023 (CCF A). |
2019 | One of our papers won the Best Paper Award of DASFAA 2019 (CORE2018 Rank B, CCF B). |
2019 | Outstanding Master's Thesis Award of UESTC. |
2019 | Outstanding Graduate Student Award of UESTC. |
2016 | Rank No.1 in Undergraduate Thesis Defense of UESTC. Outstanding undergraduate graduation thesis award. |
2016 | Honorary Graduate of UESTC. Top 10 in Yingcai Honors College. |
2014 | Meritorious Winner for CSIAM's China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling. |
2013 | First Prize in Sichuan Contest District in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling. |
2012 | TANG Lixin Scholarship of UESTC. Top 60 out of over 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students at UESTC. |
2012 | Rank No.1 in entering UESTC from Yunnan Province (Score: 614). |