| Jul 01, 2026 | Two papers are accepted to RecSys 26! One studies optimizing textual decoding tries in LLM-based generative recommendation and the other studies ID-text complementarity in sequential recommendation. Congrats to Jingzhe and Liam! |
| May 01, 2026 | One paper that studies the scaling behavior of generative recommenders is accepted to KDD 26. Congrats to Jingzhe! See you in Korea. |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Three papers are accepted to ACL 26! One studies attention sink for LLMs, one studies embedding extraction for decoder-only LLMs, and the other studies agentic user memory management for LLM-RecSys. See you in San Diego! |
| Apr 01, 2026 | One paper about practical deployment of Semantic IDs at Snapchat and another paper that studies multimodal Semantic IDs have been accepted to SIGIR 26. See you in Melbourne! |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Our paper “Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs: A Practitioner’s Handbook” won the Best Paper Award at CIKM 25! Please take a look at our public repo! |
| Oct 10, 2025 | One paper that studies data augmentation for generative recommendation has been accepted to WSDM 26. Congrats to Geon! See you in Boise. |
| Oct 01, 2025 | We recently released a pre-print studying the scaling laws of generative recommendation! Please take a look and suggestions are welcomed. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | One paper about pre-training on relational databases is accepted to NeurIPS 25. Congrats to Quang! See you in San Diego. |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Our paper entitled “Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs: A Practitioner’s Handbook” (in short GRID) has been accepted to CIKM 25. GRID is one of the first few public resources that produce state-of-the-art performance using generative recommendation models. Please check out GRID at our public repo! |
| Jul 01, 2025 | One paper about re-ranking using graphs is accepted to RecSys 25. Congrats to Zhongyu! |
| May 15, 2025 | Two papers are accepted to the research track at KDD 25. One paper studies the popularity bias of recommender systems and the other paper studies cross-domain sequential recommendation. See you in Toronto. |
| May 01, 2025 | One paper that studies backward-compatible embedding learning has been accepted to ICML 25. Congrats to Ngoc! |
| Apr 01, 2025 | One paper that studies learning universal user representations leveraging cross-domain user intent has been accepted to the industrial track of SIGIR 25. Thanks for the joint efforts from scientists and engineers at Snapchat. See you in Italy. |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Two papers about RecSys are accepted to WWW 25 and selected as oral presentations. One studies the learning dynamic of RecSys models from the perspective of matrix rank to accelerate the training process; the other studies RecSys model parameter reduction using graph-based hashing methods. Congrats to Donald and Xinyi! |
| Nov 15, 2024 | I defended my Ph.D. dissertation! Thanks for the supports from my advisor and committee members Profs. Fanny Ye, Nitesh Chawla, Walter Scheirer, and Xiangliang Zhang. |
| Sep 26, 2024 | One first-authored paper that studies message passing for collaborative filtering has been accepted to NeurIPS 24. See you in Vancouver. |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Part of my previous work on multi-task self-supervised graph learning has been productionized for EBR retrieval of friend recommendation. Results are published in this manuscript at RobustRecSys@RecSys 2024! Thanks for joint efforts from our engineers and scientists. |
| Mar 01, 2024 | I joined Snap Research as a research scientist. |
| Sep 22, 2023 | One first-authored paper about test-time augmentation for GNNs has been accepted to NeurIPS 23. See you in New Orleans. |
| Jan 21, 2023 | Three papers are accepted to ICLR 23! One first-authored one studies multi-task self-supervised graph learning. The others study large language models for QA and graph adversarial learning. Congrats to everyone involved! |
| Dec 01, 2022 | I will join Snap Research as a research intern for Summer 2023, mentored by Dr. Tong Zhao and Dr. Neil Shah. |
| Nov 19, 2022 | One first-authored paper about graph adversarial attack has been accepted to AAAI 23. |
| Oct 15, 2022 | One first-authored paper on open-domain question answering has been accepted to EMNLP 22. Big thanks to my collaborators and mentors! |
| Oct 01, 2022 | Two amazing pre-prints are now available. One focuses on graph self-supervised learning and the other is about context generation for open-domain QA! Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments or suggestions over the manuscripts. |
| Jul 01, 2022 | I have my personal website now :) |