Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. —Psalms 23:4

Dr. Haodi Zhang (张昊迪)

Associate Professor
Deputy Director, Department of Software Engineering
College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Thrust of Data Science and Analytics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Email: zhanghd.ustc@gmail.com

I am currently an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from CSE of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2016, supervised by Prof. Fangzhen Lin. Before that, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China in 2009.

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Answer Set Programming, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Game Playing, Crowdsourcing, etc.

Recent News

2024.10 AWARD Received First Prize of Science and Technology Award of Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association (广东省人工智能产业协会科学技术奖一等奖)
2024.10 AWARD Received First Prize for the Outstanding Speaker of the “Famous Teacher Lecture Series” at Shenzhen University (深圳大学“名师讲座”优秀主讲人一等奖)
2023.12 AWARD Received Tencent Outstanding Teacher Award (腾讯益友奖)
2023.12 PAPER Our Demo of FeVisQA, Free-Form Question Answering over Data Visualization, has been accepted by ICDE 2024 Demo Track
2023.11 ACTIVITY Invited to serve as a session chair for BIBM 2023
2023.10 AWARD Received Second Prize for the Outstanding Speaker of the “Famous Scholars Visiting Middle Schools” Program (深圳大学“名师进中学”优秀主讲人二等奖)
2023.10 PAPER Our Paper, Integrating Automated Knowledge Extraction with Large Language Models for Explainable Medical Decision-Making, has been accepted by BIBM 2023
2023.7 ACTIVITY Invited to give a talk on the annual conference of South China Financial Executive Association (SCFEA), Shenzhen
2023.4 ACTIVITY Invited to serve as a session chair for ICDE 2023
2023.4 ACTIVITY Invited to serve as a session chair for AAAI 2023
2022.12 ACTIVITY Invited to give a talk on the Bay Area Fintech University Forum, Shenzhen
2022.11 PAPER Our paper on hierarchical crowdsourcing for data labeling has been accepted by ICDE 2023
2022.11 AWARD Received the Outstanding Teacher Award of Shenzhen University
2022.8 AWARD Congratulations to Peirou Liang, Xiaofeng Tan and Minhan Chen in our group for the Second Prize of 15th National College Students Computer Design Competition (N4C Finals)
2022.5 AWARD Congratulations to Peirou Liang, Chengwei He and Liangqiu Xiao in our group for Finalist Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2022
2022.1 AWARD Received the Second Prize of Shenzhen University in Guangdong Teaching Innovation Contest

Earlier Highlights …

2021.12 PAPER Our paper on task-oriented dialog policy learning with contextual knowledge has been accepted by AAAI 2022 (acceptance rate 15%). Code
2021.08 PAPER Our paper on burstness-aware web search analysis has been accepted by TKDE
- 2021.07 ACTIVITY Invited to serve as a distinguished supervisor for HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition
- 2021.06 ACTIVITY Invited to serve as a local chair for EAI ICECI 2021
- 2021.05 PAPER Our paper on crowd-aided best path selection has been accepted by TKDE
- 2021.04 AWARD Received the Outstanding Teaching Award of Shenzhen University
- 2021.01 AWARD We won the 1st places of two tracks in the first Machine Automated IQ (MAIQ) Test Challenge at IJCAI
- 2021.01 PAPER Our paper on adversarial driving style representation learning has been accepted by DASFAA
- 2020.12 TALK Invited to give a talk entitled “Leveraging Human Intelligence in Machine Learning for NLP” on the 1st Macau Symposium on Linguistics, Macau University, Dec. 13, 2020
- 2020.11 ACTIVITY Invited to serve as a Senior Program Committee member for IJCAI 2021
- 2020.09 PAPER Our paper on cleaning uncertainty with crowdingsourcing has been accepted by TKDE
- 2020.08-11 ACTIVITY Invited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2021, EMNLP 2021, NeurIPS 2021, and ACL/IJCNLP 2021
- 2019.10 PAPER Our paper on deep learning in game playing has been accepted by AAAI 2020
- 2019.08 ACTIVITY Invited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2020, IJCAI 2020
- 2018.11 PAPER Our paper on IQ tests for machine intelligence has been accepted by IJCAI 2019
- 2018.10 ACTIVITY Invited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2019, IJCAI 2019

Selected Honors and Awards

2024 First Prize of Science and Technology Award of Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association (广东省人工智能产业协会科学技术奖一等奖)
2024 First Prize for the Outstanding Speaker of the “Famous Teacher Lecture Series” at Shenzhen University (深圳大学“名师讲座”优秀主讲人一等奖)
2023 Tencent Outstanding Teacher Award (腾讯益友奖优秀班主任)
2023 Second Prize for the Outstanding Speaker of the “Famous Scholars Visiting Middle Schools” Program (深圳大学“名师进中学”优秀主讲人二等奖)
2022 Outstanding Teacher Award of Shenzhen University
2022 2nd Prize of Shenzhen University in Teaching Innovation Contest
2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Course Award, Shenzhen University
2021 Winner of Verbal track in the IJCAI-20 Machine Automated IQ Test (IJCAI MAIQ) Competition
2021 Winner of Diagram track in the IJCAI-20 Machine Automated IQ Test (IJCAI MAIQ) Competition
2020 Annual Excellence Award, Shenzhen University
2019 Tencent ‘Rhino-bird’ Open-Funded Young Researcher Award
2019 Best Class Award for Discrete Mathematics, CSSE, Shenzhen University
2019 Excellence Award in ‘Torch’ teaching program, Shenzhen University
2019 Best New Teacher Award, CSSE, Shenzhen University
2018 ‘Peacock’ High-level Talent, Shenzhen City

Supervision Awards

2024 The Third Prize of 17th Guangdong College Students Computer Design Competition
2023 The Third Prize of 16th Guangdong College Students Computer Design Competition
2022 The Second Prize of 15th National College Students Computer Design Competition (N4C Finals)
- Students: Peirou Liang, Xiaofeng Tan and Minhan Chen
2022 Finalist Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling
- Students: Peirou Liang, Chengwei He and Liangqiu Xiao
2021 The Third Prize of 4th Blossom Cup 5G Application Competition
- Student: Zisen Lin, Ke Duan, Jiahao Lin
2021 Winner of Verbal Tracks in the IJCAI Machine Automated IQ Test (MAIQ) Competition
- Students: Zhao Chen, Qifan Li, Zhenhao Chen
2021 Winner of Diagram Tracks in the IJCAI Machine Automated IQ Test (MAIQ) Competition
- Students: Qifan Li, Zhao Chen, Zhenhao Chen

Publications

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Grant

PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Youth Program, 2019-2021 (国家自然科学基金青年项目，主持)
PI, GuangDong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, General Program, 2022-2024 (广东省自然科学基金面上项目，主持)
Co-I, Joint Funds of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Key Program, 2021-2024 (国家自然科学基金广东联合重点项目，参与)
PI, Finance Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, Open Fund, 2020-2022 (深圳市“孔雀计划”海外高层次人才科研基金，主持)
PI, High-level University Construction Fund of Shenzhen University, 2019-2020 (深圳市高水平大学建设项目，主持)
PI, Tencent ‘Rhinoceros Birds’ - Scientific Research Foundation for Young Faculty of Shenzhen University, 2018-2019 (腾讯“犀牛鸟”-深圳大学青年教师科研基金项目，主持)
PI, Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen University, 2018-2019 (深圳大学新引进教师科研启动项目，主持)