Yuxiao is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on large language models, data mining, graph representation learning, and social and information networks. Together with collaborators, his recent work on LLM/VLM pre-training, reasoning, agents and RL scaling has been transferred into several open-sourced LLMs and products. Earlier in his career, his work on graph representation learning and pre-training was deployed for large-scale applications in Facebook, Microsoft, Tencent, and nominated for best papers in WWW'22, WWW'19, ECML-PKDD'23, and WSDM’15. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Notre Dame, and before joining Tsinghua, he was a researcher at Meta AI and Microsoft Research Redmond. He has been very fortunate to receive the 2017 SIGKDD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention and the 2022 SIGKDD Rising Star Award. He is also very proud to be selected as one of the ten most favorite teachers in 2024 --- a recognition voted on by students once every two years.
Here are some of recent works on LLMs:
Here are recent works on Graph Pre-Training & Graph Representation Learning, some of which were used in Facebook, Instagram, Microsoft, Tencent Games, and Alibaba:
More information about his experience and research can be found on LinkedIn and Google Scholar.
I'm always looking for self-motivated students to work on large language models, vision language models, LLM agent, and graphs, networks. It would be great if your institutional email address is used for initial contact, if having one. Reference letters for applying for graduate schools (of at most ten universities) can be happily provided upon 1) solid outputs AND 2) at least 16 weeks of collaboration (the duration of both one semester at Tsinghua and a MSR/Facebook summer research internship).
I'm very lucky to have the opportunities to work with these brilliant students and interns (ordered by year, with their representative work done together).
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