Dr Rocky Chen

ARC DECRA

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Overview

Rocky Tong Chen is currently a Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow with with the Data Science Discipline, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. His research has been focused on developing accurate, efficient, and trustworthy data mining solutions to discover actionable patterns and intelligence from large-scale user data to facilitate prediction and recommendation in a wide range of domains. To date, he has published 60+ peer-reviewed papers in the most prestigious conferences (e.g., KDD, SIGIR, WWW, ICDM, ICDE, AAAI and IJCAI) and journals (e.g., VLDBJ, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, ACM TOIS and WWWJ). His publications have won 3 Best Paper Awards, 1 Best Paper Nomination, and 2 Travel Awards.

Research Interests

  • Data Mining
  • Recommender Systems
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Machine Learning
  • Health Informatics

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Software Engineering, Northwest A&F University (西北农林科技大学)

Publications

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Qu, Yunke, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Budgeted Embedding Table For Recommender Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3616855.3635778

  • Wen, Hechuan, Chen, Tong, Chai, Li Kheng, Sadiq, Shazia, Zheng, Kai and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). To predict or to reject: causal effect estimation with uncertainty on networked data. 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM), Shanghai, China, 1 - 4 December 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icdm58522.2023.00184

  • Liu, Yi, Xuan, Hongrui, Li, Bohan, Wang, Meng, Chen, Tong and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Self-Supervised Dynamic Hypergraph Recommendation based on Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graph. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615054

  • Gao, Xinyi, Zhang, Wentao, Chen, Tong, Yu, Junliang, Nguyen, Hung Quoc Viet and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Semantic-aware node synthesis for imbalanced heterogeneous information networks. 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 21–25 October 2023. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615055

  • Qu, Yunke, Chen, Tong, Zhao, Xiangyu, Cui, Lizhen, Zheng, Kai and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Continuous input embedding size search for recommender systems. The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591653

  • Zheng, Shangfei, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Chen, Wei and Zhao, Lei (2023). DREAM: adaptive reinforcement learning based on attention mechanism for temporal knowledge graph reasoning. 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23–27 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591671

  • Long, Jing, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Xu, Guandong, Zheng, Kai and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). Model-agnostic decentralized collaborative learning for on-device POI recommendation. 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3539618.3591733

  • Wang, Lingzhi, Chen, Tong, Yuan, Wei, Zeng, Xingshan, Wong, Kam-Fai and Yin, Hongzhi (2023). KGA: A General Machine Unlearning Framework Based on Knowledge Gap Alignment. 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 9 - 14 July 2023. Stroudsburg, PA United States: Association for Computational Linguistics.

  • Chen, Qiaomin, Zheng, Bangyou, Chen, Tong and Chapman, Scott (2022). Integrating APSIM and PROSAIL to improve prediction of crop traits in various situations from hyperspectral data using deep learning. 20th Agronomy Australia Conference, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, 18-22 September 2022. Willow Grove, VIC Australia: Australian Society of Agronomy.

  • Yu, Junliang, Yin, Hongzhi, Xia, Xin, Chen, Tong, Cui, Lizhen and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2022). Are Graph Augmentations Necessary? : Simple Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation. SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11 - 15 July 2022. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531937

  • Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Long, Jing, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Wang, Yang and Wang, Meng (2022). Thinking inside The Box : Learning Hypercube Representations for Group Recommendation. SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11 - 15 July 2022. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3477495.3532066

  • Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Ren, Jie, Huang, Zi, Zhang, Xiangliang and Wang, Hao (2022). Uniting heterogeneity, inductiveness, and efficiency for graph representation learning (Extended Abstract). 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9-12 May 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . doi: 10.1109/icde53745.2022.00143

  • Tommasini, Riccardo, Roy, Senjuti Basu, Wang, Xuan, Wang, Hongwei, Ji, Heng, Han, Jiawei, Nakov, Preslav, Da San Martino, Giovanni, Alam, Firoj, Schedl, Markus, Lex, Elisabeth, Bharadwaj, Akash, Cormode, Graham, Dojchinovski, Milan, Forberg, Jan, Frey, Johannes, Bonte, Pieter, Balduini, Marco, Belcao, Matteo, Della Valle, Emanuele, Yu, Junliang, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Liu, Haochen, Wang, Yiqi, Fan, Wenqi, Liu, Xiaorui, Dacon, Jamell, Lye, Lingjuan ... He, Xiangnan (2022). Accepted Tutorials at The Web Conference 2022. The Web Conference 2022, Lyon, France, 25 – 29 April 2022. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3487553.3547182

  • Yuan, Wei, Yin, Hongzhi, He, Tieke, Chen, Tong, Wang, Qiufeng and Cui, Lizhen (2022). Unified question generation with continual lifelong learning. WWW 2022 - ACM Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France, 25-29 April 2022. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3485447.3511930

  • Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Cui, Lizhen (2022). PipA!ack: poisoning federated recommender systems for manipulating item promotion. WSDM '22: Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual, AZ, United States, 21 - 25 February 2022. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3488560.3498386

  • Li, Yang, Chen, Tong, Zhang, Peng-Fei and Yin, Hongzhi (2021). Lightweight self-attentive sequential recommendation. CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual, 1-5 November 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3459637.3482448

  • Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Zheng, Yujia, Huang, Zi, Wang, Yang and Wang, Meng (2021). Learning elastic embeddings for customizing on-device recommenders. 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Virtual (Singapore), 14-18 August 2021. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3447548.3467220

  • Guo, Lei, Tang, Li, Chen, Tong, Zhu, Lei, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2021). DA-GCN: a domain-aware attentive graph convolution network for shared-account cross-domain sequential recommendation. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada, 19-27 August 2021. San Francisco, CA, United States: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2021/342

  • Li, Yang, Chen, Tong, Luo, Yadan, Yin, Hongzhi and Huang, Zi (2021). Discovering collaborative signals for next POI recommendation with iterative Seq2Graph augmentation. Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, QC Canada, 19 - 27 August 2021. Palo Alto, CA United States: A A A I Press. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2021/206

  • Ren, Xuhui, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Wang, Hao, Huang, Zi and Zheng, Kai (2021). Learning to ask appropriate questions in conversational recommendation. SIGIR '21: Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, 11-15 July 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3404835.3462839

  • Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi, Cui, Lizhen and Zhang, Xiangliang (2021). Graph embedding for recommendation against attribute inference attacks. WWW '21: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-22 April 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3449813

  • Imran, Mubashir, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi, Zhang, Xiangliang and Zheng, Kai (2021). DDHH: A decentralized deep learning framework for large-scale heterogeneous networks. 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Chania, Greece, 19-22 April 2021. Washington, DC USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00196

  • Wang, Yuandong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Liu, Chunyang, Wang, Ben, Wo, Tianyu and Xu, Jie (2021). Gallat: A spatiotemporal graph attention network for passenger demand prediction. 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Chania, Greece, 19-22 April 2021. Washington, DC USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00212

  • Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Sun, Xiangguo, Chen, Tong, Gabrys, Bogdan and Musial, Katarzyna (2020). Multi-level graph convolutional networks for cross-platform Anchor Link Prediction. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Virtual Event, CA, United States, 23-27 August 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3394486.3403201

  • Qiu, Ruihong, Yin, Hongzhi, Huang, Zi and Chen, Tong (2020). GAG: global attributed graph neural network for streaming session-based recommendation. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event China , 25-30 July 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401109

  • Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Ye, Guanhua, Huang, Zi, Wang, Yang and Wang, Meng (2020). Try this instead: personalized and interpretable substitute recommendation. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event China, 25-30 July 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401042

  • Imran, Mubashir, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Shao, Yingxia, Zhang, Xiangliang and Zhou, Xiaofang (2020). Decentralized embedding framework for large-scale networks. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Jeju, South Korea, 24-27 September 2020. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-59419-0_26

  • Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Hung, Quoc Viet Nguyen, Huang, Zi and Cui, Lizhen (2020). GCN-based user representation learning for unifying robust recommendation and fraudster detection. SIGIR '20: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Online, July 2020. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401165

  • Wang, Qinyong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Huang, Zi, Wang, Hao, Zhao, Yanchang and Viet Hung, Nguyen Quoc (2020). Next point-of-interest recommendation on resource-constrained mobile devices. WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3366423.3380170

  • Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Peng, Wen-Chih, Li, Xue and Zhou, Xiaofang (2020). Sequence-aware factorization machines for temporal predictive analytics. 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering, Dallas, Texas, United States, 20-24 April 2020. LOS ALAMITOS: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE48307.2020.00125

  • Sun, Ke, Qian, Tieyun, Chen, Tong, Liang, Yile, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Yin, Hongzhi (2020). Where to go next: modeling long- and short-term user preferences for point-of-interest recommendation. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, NY, United States, 7-12 February 2020. Palo Alto, CA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5353

  • Lu, Sheng, Chen, Tong, Yang, Fan, Peng, Chenglei, Du, Sidan and Li, Yang (2019). Minimal path based particle tracking in low SNR fluorescence microscopy images. Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3354031.3354035

  • Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu, Yan, Rui, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung and Li, Xue (2019). AIR: Attentional intention-aware recommender systems. IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau, China, 8-11 April 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2019.00035

  • Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, Peng, Wen-Chih and Li, Xue (2019). Exploiting centrality information with graph convolutions for network representation learning. IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau, China, 8-11 April 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICDE.2019.00059

  • Zhang, Shijie, Yin, Hongzhi, Wang, Qinyong, Chen, Tong, Chen, Hongxu and Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung (2019). Inferring substitutable products with deep network embedding. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Macao, China, 10-16 August 2019. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2019/598

  • Guo, Lei, Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Zhou, Alexander, Wang, Qinyong and Hung, Nguyen Quoc Viet (2019). Streaming Session-based Recommendation. 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD), Anchorage, AK United States, 4-8 August 2019. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3292500.3330839

  • Sun, Ke, Qian, Tieyun, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Tong, Chen, Yiqi and Chen, Ling (2019). What can history tell us? Identifying relevant sessions for next-item recommendation. 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Beijing, China, 3-7 November 2019. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357384.3358050

  • Chen, Tong, Li, Xue, Yin, Hongzhi and Zhang, Jun (2018). Call attention to rumors: deep attention based recurrent neural networks for early rumor detection. 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 June 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04503-6_4

  • Chen, Tong, Chen, Hongxu and Li, Xue (2018). Rumor detection via recurrent neural networks: a case study on adaptivity with varied data compositions. 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 June 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04503-6_10

  • Chen, Tong, Yin, Hongzhi, Chen, Hongxu, Wu, Lin, Wang, Hao, Zhou, Xiaofang and Li, Xue (2018). TADA: trend alignment with dual-attention multi-task recurrent neural networks for sales prediction. 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2018, Singapore, 17-20 November 2018. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ICDM.2018.00020

  • Wu, Lin, Haynes, Michele, Smith, Andrew, Chen, Tong and Li, Xue (2017). Generating life course trajectory sequences with recurrent neural networks and application to early detection of social disadvantage. Advanced Data Mining and Applications 13th International Conference, Singapore, November 5–6, 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69179-4_16

  • Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Xue, Wang, Meng, Chen, Weitong and Chen, Tong (2017). People opinion topic model: opinion based user clustering in social networks. International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017. Geneva, Switzerland: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. doi: 10.1145/3041021.3051159

Other Outputs

  • Chen, Tong (2020). Sequence modelling for e-commerce. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.1003

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

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