Dongqi Fu
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I am a final-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It is my great honor to be a student of Prof. Jingrui He at iSAIL Lab.
“The Only Constant in Life Is Change” –Heraclitus
I am interested in adapting/developing data mining and machine learning algorithms to/on graph data (i.e., non-IID, relational, non-grid, non-Euclidean data). Moreover, the real-world graph data can be (1) related to the temporal information (i.e., time-evolving topological structures, time-evolving node/graph features/labels, etc.) and (2) imperfect (i.e., missing features, scarce labels, hard-to-interpret, redundant, privacy-leaking, robustness-lacking, etc.). Hence, my research focuses on investigating (1) Natural Dynamics (e.g., leveraging spatial-temporal properties of graphs) and (2) Artificial Dynamics (e.g., augmenting and pruning graph components) in Graph Mining, Graph Representations, and Graph Neural Networks to achieve task performance upgrades in accuracy, efficiency, explanation, privacy, fairness, etc., and I am also keen on Graph Data Management and Graph Theory.
🏫 Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Aug 2019 - May 2024 (Expected)
- Ph.D. in Computer Science
- Advisor: Prof. Jingrui He
University of Southern California, Jan 2017 - May 2018
- M.Sc. in Data Informatics
- Advisor: Prof. T. K. Satish Kumar
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Aug 2012 - May 2016
- B.Eng. in Internet of Things Engineering
🏭 Industry Experience
Meta AI, Sunnyvale CA, May 2023 - Oct 2023
- Research Scientist Intern, Monetization GenAI RES Group
- Scalable Graph Transformer Models
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights NY, May 2022 - Aug 2022
- Research Intern, Impact Science
- Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting and Anomaly Detection
🏆 Honors and Awards
- SIAM Student Travel Award (To attend SDM’ 2024)
- Rising Star in Data Science 2023 (By UChicago and UC San Diego)
- CS Ph.D. Fellowship 2023 (By UIUC CS Department)
- C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student 2023 (Annually Honor One Graduate Student in UIUC CS Department)
- Conference Presentation Award 2023 (By UIUC Graduate College)
- NSF Student Travel Award (To attend WSDM’ 2023)
- Rising Star in Data Mining and Management 2022 (By Frontiers Journal)
- NeurIPS 2022 Top 8% Reviewer with PC Registration Award (By NeurIPS’ 2022)
- NSF/SIGWEB Student Travel Grant (To attend CIKM’ 2022)
- NSF/SIGKDD Student Registration Award (To attend KDD’ 2022)
- ACM/SIGIR Student Travel Grant (To attend SIGIR’ 2021)
- ACM/SIGIR Student Travel Grant (To attend CIKM’ 2020)
- NSF/SIGKDD Student Registration Award (To attend KDD’ 2020)