Haodi Zhang (张昊迪)
Associate Professor
Associate Department Head, Department of Software Engineering
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Thrust of Data Science and Analytics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
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
I am currently an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Associate Head of Software Engineering Department, College of 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.
Recent News
2026.2
A paper we co-authored with Professor Lin Ma's team at Nanjing University has been accepted by Nature Food!
2025.4
Three full papers and one demo paper have been accepted by IJCAI 2025!
2025.4
Two full papers and one demo paper have been accepted by ICDE 2025
2025.1
Received Distinguished Department Head Award, CSSE, Shenzhen University (深圳大学卓越系主任)
2024.12
Invited to serve as an Area Chair for IJCAI 2025
2024.11
Our paper Towards Robustness of Text-to-Visualization Translation against Lexical and Phrasal Variability has been accepted by ICDE 2025
2024.10
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
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)
Earlier news...
2023.12
Received Tencent Outstanding Teacher Award (腾讯益友奖)
2023.12
Our Demo of FeVisQA, Free-Form Question Answering over Data Visualization, has been accepted by ICDE 2024 Demo Track
2023.11
Invited to serve as a session chair for BIBM 2023
2023.10
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
Our Paper, Integrating Automated Knowledge Extraction with Large Language Models for Explainable Medical Decision-Making, has been accepted by BIBM 2023
2023.7
Invited to give a talk on the annual conference of South China Financial Executive Association (SCFEA), Shenzhen
2023.4
Invited to serve as a session chair for ICDE 2023
2023.4
Invited to serve as a session chair for AAAI 2023
2022.12
Invited to give a talk on the Bay Area Fintech University Forum, Shenzhen
2022.11
Our paper on hierarchical crowdsourcing for data labeling has been accepted by ICDE 2023
2022.11
Received the Outstanding Teacher Award of Shenzhen University
2022.8
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
Congratulations to Peirou Liang, Chengwei He and Liangqiu Xiao in our group for Finalist Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2022
2022.1
Received the Second Prize of Shenzhen University in Guangdong Teaching Innovation Contest
2021.12
Our paper on task-oriented dialog policy learning with contextual knowledge has been accepted by AAAI 2022 (acceptance rate 15%). Code
2021.8
Our paper on burstness-aware web search analysis has been accepted by TKDE
2021.7
Invited to serve as a distinguished supervisor for HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition
2021.6
Invited to serve as a local chair for EAI ICECI 2021
2021.5
Our paper on crowd-aided best path selection has been accepted by TKDE
2021.4
Received the Outstanding Teaching Award of Shenzhen University
2021.1
We won the 1st places of two tracks in the first Machine Automated IQ (MAIQ) Test Challenge at IJCAI
2021.1
Our paper on adversarial driving style representation learning has been accepted by DASFAA
2020.12
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
Invited to serve as a Senior Program Committee member for IJCAI 2021
2020.9
Our paper on cleaning uncertainty with crowdsourcing has been accepted by TKDE
2020.8
Invited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2021, EMNLP 2021, NeurIPS 2021, and ACL/IJCNLP 2021
2019.10
Our paper on deep learning in game playing has been accepted by AAAI 2020
2019.8
Invited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2020, IJCAI 2020
2018.11
Our paper on IQ tests for machine intelligence has been accepted by IJCAI 2019
2018.10
Invited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2019, IJCAI 2019
Featured Publications
Nature Food
Accepted
(IF: 21.9)
Machine Learning-driven Precision Strategies to Mitigate Nitrogen and Carbon Losses from Organic Waste Composting
ML-driven precision composting strategies to reduce nitrogen and carbon losses, published in top Nature journal
IJCAI 2025
Deduction with Induction: Combining Knowledge Discovery and Reasoning for Interpretable Deep Reinforcement Learning
Novel framework combining knowledge discovery with logical reasoning for interpretable deep RL
AAAI 2022
Acceptance rate 15%
Efficient Dialog Policy Learning by Reasoning with Contextual Knowledge
Integrates knowledge graph reasoning with dialog policy learning for task-oriented dialogue systems
AIJ
248:1-8
Characterizing causal action theories and their implementations in answer set programming
Foundational characterization of causal action theories with provably correct ASP implementations
Honors & Awards
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2024.11 — First Prize of Science and Technology Award, Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association (4/12) (广东省人工智能产业协会科学技术奖一等奖（4/12）)
Project: 新型智慧城市管理多模态大模型关键技术及产业化应用
Team: 李莉、王璐、黄岩、张昊迪、伍楷舜、谭丽丽、梁恩磊、陈辉、孙敏、林鹏、刘嘉荣、王兆山 - 2021.01 — Champion of Verbal Track, IJCAI MAIQ Competition (CCF-A) (CCF-A 类会议 IJCAI MAIQ 竞赛 Verbal 赛道冠军)
- 2021.01 — Champion of Diagram Track, IJCAI MAIQ Competition (CCF-A) (CCF-A 类会议 IJCAI MAIQ 竞赛 Diagram 赛道冠军)
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2025.12 — First Prize for Teaching Achievement, Guangdong Province (4/15) (广东省教学成果一等奖（4/15）)
Project: 强耦合·重落地的校企共融计算机AI特区人才培养创新实践
Team: 黄惠、杨烜、王旭、张昊迪、冯禹洪、王才荣、潘微科、高灿、杜文峰、廖江海、崔来中、贾森、陆克中、刘晔、樊婷 -
2025.08 — Second Prize for Teaching Achievement, Chinese Institute of Electronics (4/7) (中国电子学会教学成果二等奖（4/7）)
Project: 双需求三协同的校企共融计算机AI特区人才培养创新实践
Team: 黄惠、杨烜、张昊迪、冯禹洪、王才荣、崔来中 - 2025.04 — Distinguished Department Head, CSSE, Shenzhen University (深圳大学计软学院"卓越系主任")
All Awards...
Personal Awards
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2024.11 — First Prize of Science and Technology Award, Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association (4/12) (广东省人工智能产业协会科学技术奖一等奖（4/12）)
Project: 新型智慧城市管理多模态大模型关键技术及产业化应用
Team: 李莉、王璐、黄岩、张昊迪、伍楷舜、谭丽丽、梁恩磊、陈辉、孙敏、林鹏、刘嘉荣、王兆山 - 2021.01 — Champion of Verbal Track, IJCAI MAIQ Competition (CCF-A) (CCF-A 类会议 IJCAI MAIQ 竞赛 Verbal 赛道冠军)
- 2021.01 — Champion of Diagram Track, IJCAI MAIQ Competition (CCF-A) (CCF-A 类会议 IJCAI MAIQ 竞赛 Diagram 赛道冠军)
- 2018.06 — Tencent 'Rhino-Bird' Young Faculty Research Fund Award (腾讯犀牛鸟青年教师科研基金项目奖)
- 2018.04 — 'Peacock' High-Level Talent, Shenzhen City (深圳市"孔雀计划"海外高层次人才)
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2025.12 — First Prize for Teaching Achievement, Guangdong Province (4/15) (广东省教学成果一等奖（4/15）)
Project: 强耦合·重落地的校企共融计算机AI特区人才培养创新实践
Team: 黄惠、杨烜、王旭、张昊迪、冯禹洪、王才荣、潘微科、高灿、杜文峰、廖江海、崔来中、贾森、陆克中、刘晔、樊婷 - 2025.1 — Second Prize for Outstanding University Outreach Promotion (深圳大学优秀中学宣传责任人二等奖)
- 2025.1 — First Prize for Outstanding Speaker, "Famous Teacher Lecture Series", Shenzhen University (深圳大学"名师讲座"优秀主讲人一等奖)
- 2025.09 — First Prize for Teaching Achievement, Shenzhen University (4/7) (深圳大学教学成果一等奖（4/7）)
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2025.08 — Second Prize for Teaching Achievement, Chinese Institute of Electronics (4/7) (中国电子学会教学成果二等奖（4/7）)
Project: 双需求三协同的校企共融计算机AI特区人才培养创新实践
Team: 黄惠、杨烜、张昊迪、冯禹洪、王才荣、崔来中 - 2025.07 — Outstanding Internship Supervisor, Shenzhen University (深圳大学优秀实习指导教师)
- 2025.06 — Outstanding Graduation Thesis Supervisor, Shenzhen University (深圳大学百篇优秀毕业论文指导教师)
- 2025.04 — Distinguished Department Head, CSSE, Shenzhen University (深圳大学计软学院"卓越系主任")
- 2024.1 — First Prize for Outstanding Speaker, "Famous Teacher Lecture Series", Shenzhen University (深圳大学"名师讲座"优秀主讲人一等奖)
- 2023.12 — Tencent Outstanding Teacher Award ("Yiyou Award") (深圳大学"腾讯益友奖"优秀班主任)
- 2023.1 — Second Prize for Outstanding Speaker, "Famous Scholars Visiting Middle Schools" Program (深圳大学"名师进中学"优秀主讲人二等奖)
- 2022.11 — Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award, Shenzhen University (深圳大学优秀本科教师奖)
- 2022.05 — Second Prize, National Teaching Innovation Contest, Shenzhen University (第二届全国高校教师教学创新大赛深圳大学二等奖)
- 2021.04 — Outstanding Undergraduate Course Award, Shenzhen University (深圳大学优秀本科课程奖)
- 2021.12 — Outstanding AI Special Class Award, Tencent Cloud (腾讯云人工智能特色班先进班集体)
- 2021.05 — Second Prize, 10th Young Faculty Teaching Competition, CSSE (深圳大学第十届青年教师讲课竞赛学院二等奖)
- 2020.09 — Annual Excellence Award, Shenzhen University (深圳大学年度考核优秀奖)
- 2019.12 — Best New Faculty Award, CSSE, Shenzhen University (深圳大学计算机与软件学院最佳新人奖)
- 2019.06 — Second Prize, 9th Young Faculty Teaching Competition, CSSE (深圳大学第九届青年教师讲课竞赛学院二等奖)
Supervision Awards
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2025.06 — Top 100 Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award, Shenzhen University (深圳大学百篇优秀本科毕业论文)
Students: 卢锦伟 - 2024.09 — Third Prize, 17th Guangdong College Students Computer Design Competition (第17届中国大学生计算机设计大赛广东省三等奖)
- 2023.09 — Third Prize, 16th Guangdong College Students Computer Design Competition (第16届中国大学生计算机设计大赛广东省三等奖)
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2022.08 — Second Prize, 15th National College Students Computer Design Competition (N4C Finals) (第15届中国大学生计算机设计大赛全国二等奖)
Students: Peirou Liang, Xiaofeng Tan, Minhan Chen - 2022.06 — Second Prize, Guangdong College Students Computer Design Competition (广东省大学生计算机设计大赛决赛二等奖)
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2022.05 — Finalist Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Top 2% globally) (美国数学建模大赛Finalist Mention冠名奖)
Students: Peirou Liang, Chengwei He, Liangqiu Xiao - 2022.05 — Second Prize, Blue Bridge Cup National Competition, Guangdong Province (蓝桥杯全国软件和信息技术专业人才大赛广东省二等奖)
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2021.09 — Third Prize, 4th Blossom Cup 5G Application Competition (第四届绽放杯5G应用大赛高校组三等奖)
Students: Zisen Lin, Ke Duan, Jiahao Lin