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
College of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Shenzhen University
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
2023.12AWARDReceived Tencent Outstanding Teacher Award (腾讯益友奖)2023.11ACTIVITYInvited to serve as a session chair for BIBM 20232023.10PAPEROur Paper, Integrating Automated Knowledge Extraction with Large Language Models for Explainable Medical Decision-Making, has been accepted by BIBM 20232023.7ACTIVITYInvited to give a talk on the annual conference of South China Financial Executive Association (SCFEA), Shenzhen2023.4ACTIVITYInvited to serve as a session chair for ICDE 20232023.4ACTIVITYInvited to serve as a session chair for AAAI 20232022.12ACTIVITYInvited to give a talk on the Bay Area Fintech University Forum, Shenzhen2022.11PAPEROur paper on hierarchical crowdsourcing for data labeling has been accepted by ICDE 20232022.11AWARDReceived the Outstanding Teacher Award of Shenzhen University2022.8AWARDCongratulations 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)2022.5AWARDCongratulations to Peirou Liang, Chengwei He and Liangqiu Xiao in our group for Finalist Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling 20222022.1AWARDReceived the Second Prize of Shenzhen University in Guangdong Teaching Innovation Contest2021.12PAPEROur paper on task-oriented dialog policy learning with contextual knowledge has been accepted by AAAI 2022 (acceptance rate 15%). Code2021.08PAPEROur paper on burstness-aware web search analysis has been accepted by TKDE
Earlier Highlights …
2021.07ACTIVITYInvited to serve as a distinguished supervisor for HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition2021.06ACTIVITYInvited to serve as a local chair for EAI ICECI 20212021.05PAPEROur paper on crowd-aided best path selection has been accepted by TKDE2021.04AWARDReceived the Outstanding Teaching Award of Shenzhen University2021.01AWARDWe won the 1st places of two tracks in the first Machine Automated IQ (MAIQ) Test Challenge at IJCAI2021.01PAPEROur paper on adversarial driving style representation learning has been accepted by DASFAA2020.12TALKInvited to give a talk entitled “Leveraging Human Intelligence in Machine Learning for NLP” on the 1st Macau Symposium on Linguistics, Macau University, Dec. 13, 20202020.11ACTIVITYInvited to serve as a Senior Program Committee member for IJCAI 20212020.09PAPEROur paper on cleaning uncertainty with crowdingsourcing has been accepted by TKDE2020.08-11ACTIVITYInvited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2021, EMNLP 2021, NeurIPS 2021, and ACL/IJCNLP 20212019.10PAPEROur paper on deep learning in game playing has been accepted by AAAI 20202019.08ACTIVITYInvited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2020, IJCAI 20202018.11PAPEROur paper on IQ tests for machine intelligence has been accepted by IJCAI 20192018.10ACTIVITYInvited to serve on Program Committee of AAAI 2019, IJCAI 2019
Selected Honors and Awards
- 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
Faculty Advior Awards
- 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)
