Outreach
Invited Talks
- Expo talk: NeurIPS 2024, AutoGluon 1.2: Advancing AutoML with Foundational Models and LLM Agents, Link
- Keynote Speaker: UMAP 2025 Workshop LLM4Good, The 1st Workshop on Sustainable and Trustworthy Large Language Models for Personalization, Link
- Seminar Speaker: Institute of Computer Science of University of Bern, Uncovering the Intrinsic Structures: Representation Learning and Its Applications, Link, 2021
- Seminar Speaker: School of Computing, Australian National University, Alternative Representation Techniques: Uncovering the Underlying Structure of Data. 2021
- Seminar Speaker: RMIT, Deep Learning for Recommender Systems. 2017
- AWS Big Data Blog, Introducing generative AI upgrades for Apache Spark in AWS Glue (preview), Link
- Amazon Science Blog, Mitra: Mixed synthetic priors for enhancing tabular foundation models, Link
- Marktechpost, Amazon Researchers Reveal Mitra: Advancing Tabular Machine Learning with Synthetic Priors, Link
- Awards and recognitions: Area Chair’s Award at ACL 2024, Link
- ICLR 2021 Outstanding Paper Award Announcement, Link, Link
- WSDM 2020 Best paper Award Runner-up, Link
- Hacker News, Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings, Link
- UNSW News, From Software Engineering to AI, Link
- Australian Fintech, Raiz Invest partners with UNSW to power rewards with machine learning, News Link
Tutorials & Workshops Organizer
- Taming Structured Data Foundation Models with AutoML: A Hands-On Guide, KDD 2026 Tutorial.
- The 1st Workshop on Next Generation of IR and Recommender Systems with Language Agents, Generative Models, and Conversational AI (GENNEXT@SIGIR’25), Link
- The 1st International Workshop on Risks, Opportunities, and Evaluation of Generative Models in Recommendation (ROEGEN), Link
Open-source & Demos
- Autogluon, Maintainer
- Fast and Accurate ML in 3 Lines of Code
- Autogluon-rag, Maintainer
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation in 3 Lines of Code!
- Dive into Deep Learning, Contributor
- Dive into Deep Learning: an interactive deep learning book with code, math, and discussions.
- DeepRec, Maintainer
- An Open-source Toolkit for Deep Learning based Recommendation with Tensorflow.
Teaching
- Guest Lecturer, Recommender Systems by Dr. Guang Lu, Data science master program, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, 2022-2024
- Teaching Assistant, Big Data by Dr. Ghislain Fourny, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, 2020
- Teaching Assistant, Product Analytics by Dr. Junbum Kwon, Business School, UNSW Sydney, 2019
