Dr.Xiaokun Zhang (张晓堃)

Dr. Xiaokun Zhang,
Postdoc at City University of Hongkong,
E-mail: dawnkun1993@gmail.com

About me

I'm currently a postdoc research fellow at City University of HongKong working with Prof.Chen Ma and Prof. Kede Ma. I obtained my Phd, Master and Bachelor degree from Dalian University of Technology, fortunately supervised by Prof. Hongfei Lin. I also have a wonderful time working with Prof. Fenglong Ma at the Pennsylvania State University

Welcome to any kind of collaborations. Let's do some interesting and meaningful works for the beautiful world!

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Recommender Systems

NEWS!

2024.10, One paper has been accepted by NeuIPS 2024 about Benchmarks on Chinese harmful meme. Congratulations to JunYu!
2024.7, One paper is selected as Best paper nominees in SIGIR24'. Thansks to SIGIR's committee!
2024.3, Two long papers have been accepted by SIGIR 2024 on Recommender Systems. Thanks to all collaborators!

Publications

Disentangling ID and Modality Effects for Session-based Recommendation

Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Zhaochun Ren, Xiaochen Wang, Hongfei Lin* and Fenglong Ma

The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. July 23–27, 2024, Washington D.C., USA. SIGIR 2024 (CCF A, full paper).

Best paper nominees

[pdf] [code] [zhihu]
FineRec: Exploring Fine-grained Sequential Recommendation

Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Youlin Wu, Yuan Zhong, Hongfei Lin* and Fenglong Ma

The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. July 23–27, 2024, Washington D.C., USA. SIGIR 2024 (CCF A, full paper).

[pdf] [code] [zhihu]
Bi-Preference Learning Heterogeneous Hypergraph Networks for Session-based Recommendation

Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Fenglong Ma, Chenliang Li, Yuan Lin and Hongfei Lin*

ACM Transactions on Information Systems. TOIS 2023 (CCF A, IF 5.6).

[pdf] [code]
Beyond Co-occurrence: Multi-modal Session-based Recommendation

Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Fenglong Ma, Chenliang Li, Liang Yang and Hongfei Lin*

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. TKDE 2023 (CCF A, IF 9.235).

[pdf] [code] [zhihu]
Price DOES Matter! Modeling Price and Interest Preferences in Session-based Recommendation

Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Liang Yang, Chenliang Li, Fenglong Ma, Haifeng Liu and Hongfei Lin*

The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. July 11–15, 2022, Madrid, Spain. SIGIR 2022 (CCF A, full paper).

[pdf] [code] [zhihu]

Note: * indicates the corresponding author.Full list of publications in Google Scholar.

Academic Service

Conference PC Member

TheWebConf 2025&2024, AAAI 2025&2024&2023, COLING 2025&2024&2022, DASFAA 2024, CIKM 2024, EMNLP 2023, SIGIR 2023, ACL 2023.

Journal Reviewer

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING, TKDE
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, TOIS
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, TNNLS
Information Processing & Management, IPM
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, TASLP
World Wide Web
Knowledge and Information Systems, KAIS
Knowledge-Based Systems, KBS
Multimedia Systems
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low Resource Language Information Processing, TALLIP
Expert Systems With Applications, ESWA
The Journal of Supercomputing, TJSC
Scientific Reports

Invited Talk

2024, July, Multimodal recommendations at VALSE Webinar.

Experiences

-> 2024.7-Now, Postdoc, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong.

-> 2020.9-2024.6, PhD, School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology.

-> 2023.10-2024.5, Visiting scholar, College of Information Sciences and Technology , Pennsylvania State University.

-> 2018.9-2020.6, Master, School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology.

-> 2016.6-2018.6, Software Engineer, working in a Startups.

-> 2012.9-2016.6, Bachelor Degree, School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology

Awards

Awards: Best paper nominees at SIGIR 2024.
Awards: National Scholarship for Doctoral Students at 2023.
Awards: Excellent Doctoral Candidate of Dalian University of Technology at 2023.
Awards: IP&M 2022 Ph.D. Paper Award Honorable Mentions.
Awards: Outstanding Student Prize Scholarship of Baosteel at 2022.
Awards: Excellent Doctoral Candidate of Dalian University of Technology at 2022.
Awards: Excellent Doctoral Candidate of Dalian University of Technology at 2021.
Awards: Excellent postgraduate of Dalian University of Technology at 2019.
Awards: First Prize Scholarship for Doctoral Candidate of Dalian University of Technology at 2022-2023.
Awards: First Prize Scholarship for Postgraduate of Dalian University of Technology at 2018-2020.

Vistors

Updated at Oct, 2024