Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. —Dylan Thomas

Research Interests

2026

Nature Food Accepted (IF: 21.9)
Machine Learning-driven Precision Strategies to Mitigate Nitrogen and Carbon Losses from Organic Waste Composting
Lu Zhang#, Junyu Yang#, Junjie Liu#, Qishun Zhou, Xuan Wang*, Haodi Zhang*, Yazhan Ren, Zhaohai Bai, Lin Ma*
[PDF]
Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Accepted
The Dynamic Competition of Chinese Synonyms Over a Century
Shan Wang, Yichi Wang, and Haodi Zhang

2025

ECML-PKDD 2025
Speech-to-Visualization: Toward End-to-End Speech-Driven Data Visualization Generation from Natural Language Questions
Haodi Zhang, Xinhe Zhang, Jihua Zhou, Kaishun Wu, Yuanfeng Song, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
[PDF]
CIKM 2025 Demo
VoiceVisSystem: End-to-End Voice-driven Data Visualization Generation from Natural Language Questions
Haodi Zhang, Xiaohui Tang, Xinhe Zhang, Jihua Zhou and Yuanfeng Song
IJCAI 2025
Deduction with Induction: Combining Knowledge Discovery and Reasoning for Interpretable Deep Reinforcement Learning
Haodi Zhang, Xiangyu Zeng, Junyang Chen, Yuanfeng Song, Rui Mao, Fangzhen Lin
[PDF]
IJCAI 2025
Learning Dynamical Coupled Operator For High-dimensional Black-box Partial Differential Equations
Yichi Wang, Tian Huang, DanDan Huang, ZhaoHai Bai, Xuan Wang, Lin Ma, Haodi Zhang*
[PDF]
IJCAI 2025
SSPNet: Leveraging Robust Medication Recommendation with History and Knowledge
Haodi Zhang, Jiawei Wen, Jiahong Li, Yuanfeng Song, Liang-Jie Zhang, Lin Ma
[PDF]
IJCAI 2025 Demo
HealthLens: A Natural Language Querying System for Interactive Visualization of Electronic Health Records
Haodi Zhang, Siqi Ning, Qiyong Zheng, Yuanfeng Song, Liang-Jie Zhang
[PDF]
ICDE 2025
FeVisQA: Free-form Question Answering over Data Visualizations
Yuanfeng Song, Jinwei Lu*, Yuanwei Song, Caleb Chen Cao, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Haodi Zhang*
[PDF]
ICDE 2025
Towards Robustness of Text-to-Visualization Translation against Lexical and Phrasal Variability
Jinwei Lu, Yuanfeng Song*, Haodi Zhang*, Chen Zhang, Kaishun Wu, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
[PDF]
ICDE 2025 Demo
HRLMS: A Data-driven Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning System for Interactive Rule Intervention and Visualization
Haodi Zhang, Xiangyu Zeng, Chen Zhang, Yuanfeng Song, Kaishun Wu
[PDF]
ICASSP 2025
Climate Downscaling Using Neural Operator: Spatiotemporal Multimodal Fusion Operator with State-Query Coupled Kernel
Haodi Zhang, Yichi Wang, Yifan Jian, Jiahui Jiang, Zhaohai Bai, Lin Ma
[PDF]
COLING 2025
Efficient Data Labeling by Hierarchical Crowdsourcing with Large Language Models
Haodi Zhang, Junyu Yang, Jinyin Nie, Peirou Liang, Kaishun Wu, Defu Lian, Rui Mao and Yuanfeng Song
[PDF]
TKDE 37(1): 423-437
Learning Road Network Index Structure for Efficient Map Matching
Zhidan Liu, Yingqian Zhou, Xiaosi Liu, Haodi Zhang, Yabo Dong, Dongming Lu, Kaishun Wu
PAKDD 2025
Prompt-Based Relation Extraction By Reasoning with Contextual Knowledge
Haodi Zhang, Xinhe Zhang, Min Cai, Weicheng Wang, Yuanfeng Song
PAKDD 2025
Dual Learning between Molecules and Natural Language
Haodi Zhang, Yong Ding, Liang-Jie Zhang, Weicheng Wang, Yuanfeng Song, Di Jiang
MDM 2025
Natural Language to Overpass Query: A Multi-Step Approach Using Task Decomposition and Key-Value Correction
Haodi Zhang, Xinrui Zhu, Xuan Wang, Hanlin Gu, Yuanfeng Song, Lin Ma

2024

STOTEN Volume 955, (2024): 176800, JCR Q1 (IF: 8.2)
Enhancing crop production in the Haihe Basin while addressing challenges related to water quantity and quality
Gang Wang, Jing Yang, Xia Liu, Haodi Zhang, Xiangbo Xu, Jiafa Luo, Zhaohai Bai, Lin Ma
SCC 2024
COSIS: An AI-Enabled Digital Transformation Framework Integrating Large Language Models and Key Performance Indicators
Liang-Jie Zhang, Huan Chen, Sheng He, Changhu Li, Junyang Chen, Haodi Zhang, Wenfeng Du
ICDE 2024 Demo
Demonstration of FeVisQA: Free-Form Question Answering over Data Visualization
Yuanfeng Song, Jinwei Lu, Xuefang Zhao, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Haodi Zhang*
[PDF]
BIBM 2024
Automatic SQL Query Generation from Code Switched Natural Language Questions on Electronic Medical Records
Haodi Zhang, Jinyin Nie, Zeming Liu, Dong Lei, and Yuanfeng Song
[PDF]
CSCWD 2024
Recognizing Textual Entailment by Hierarchical Crowdsourcing with Diverse Labor Costs
Haodi Zhang, Junyu Yang, Wenxi Huang, Min Cai, Jiahong Li, Chen Zhang and Kaisu Wu

2023

ICDE 2023
Hierarchical Crowdsourcing for Data Labeling with Heterogeneous Crowd
Haodi Zhang, Wenxi Huang, Zhenhan Su, Junyang Chen, Di Jiang, Lixin Fan, Chen Zhang, Defu Lian and Kaishun Wu
[PDF] [Code]
AAAI 2023
Query-aware Quantization for Maximum Inner Product Search
Jin Zhang, Defu Lian, Haodi Zhang, Baoyun Wang, Enhong Chen
BIBM 2023
Integrating Automated Knowledge Extraction with Large Language Models for Explainable Medical Decision-Making
Haodi Zhang, Jiahong Li, Yichi Wang, and Yuanfeng Song
[PDF]
TKDE 35(1): 1072-1087
Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection by Selective Bayesian Network
Chen Zhang#, Haodi Zhang#*, Weiteng Xie, Nan Liu, Kaishun Wu and Lei Chen
[PDF]

2022

AAAI 2022 Acceptance rate 15%
Efficient Dialog Policy Learning by Reasoning with Contextual Knowledge
Haodi Zhang, Zhichao Zeng, Keting Lu, Kaishun Wu and Shiqi Zhang
[PDF] [Code]
TKDE 34(8): 3629-3642
Cleaning Uncertain Data with Crowdsourcing - a General Model with Diverse Accuracy Rates
Chen Zhang#, Haodi Zhang#*, Weiteng Xie, Nan Liu, Qifan Li, Kaishun Wu, Di Jiang, Peiguang Lin and Lei Chen
[PDF]
BIBM 2022
Explainable Pulmonary Disease Diagnosis with Prompt-Based Knowledge Extraction
Haodi Zhang, Chenyu Xu, Jiahong Li, Peirou Liang, Xiangyu Zeng, Hao Ren, Weibin Cheng, and Kaishun Wu
[PDF]
TCSS Early access
IRLM: Inductive Representation Learning Model for Personalized POI Recommendation
Junyang Chen, Mengzhu Wang, Haodi Zhang, Zhenghua Xu, Xueliang Li, Zhiguo Gong, Kaishun Wu, Victor C. M. Leung
软件学报 (JOS) CCF-A中文
显式知识推理和深度强化学习结合的动态决策
张昊迪, 陈振浩, 陈俊扬, 周熠, 连德富, 伍楷舜, 林方真
[PDF]
ISBRA 2022
MMLN: Leveraging Domain Knowledge for Multimodal Diagnosis
Haodi Zhang, Chenyu Xu, Peirou Liang, Ke Duan, Hao Ren, Weibin Cheng, and Kaishun Wu
HPCC 2022 pp. 869-876
Knowledge-Assisted DRL for Energy Harvesting Based Multi-Access Wireless Communications
Sheng Luo, Haodi Zhang, Qifan Li and Kaishun Wu
ICPADS 2022
Knowledge-Enhanced Learning for KG Embedding
Haodi Zhang, Zhao Chen, Jinyin Nie, Di Jiang, Lixin Fan and Kaishun Wu
ICPADS 2022
Improving Confidence of Uncertain Knowledge Graphs by Crowdsourcing with Limited Budget
Haodi Zhang, Wenxi Huang, Chenyu Xu, Zhengbang Yang, Hongxin Zhou, Fengtian Qi, Kaishun Wu and Chen Zhang

2021

TKDE
Burstiness-Aware Web Search Analysis on Different Levels of Evidences
Chen Zhang#, Haodi Zhang#*, Qifan Li, Kaishun Wu, Di Jiang, Yuanfeng Song, Peiguang Lin, and Lei Chen
[PDF]
DASFAA 2021 pp. 491-508
Exploiting Multi-source Data for Adversarial Driving Style Representation Learning
Zhidan Liu, Junhong Zheng, Zengyang Gong, Haodi Zhang and Kaishun Wu
[PDF]
CCL 2021 In Chinese, pp. 350-360
Macau's Vocabulary Growth in the Recent Ten Year
Shan Wang*, Zhao Chen, Haodi Zhang*

2020

AAAI 2020 Short paper, pp. 13608-13609
Embedding High-Level Knowledge into DQNs to Learn Faster and More Safely
Zihang Gao, Fangzhen Lin, Yi Zhou, Hao Zhang, Kaishun Wu, Haodi Zhang*

2019

IJCAI 2019 pp. 6110-6116
How Well Do Machines Perform on IQ tests: a Comparison Study on a Large-Scale Dataset
Yusen Liu, Fangyuan He, Haodi Zhang, Guozheng Rao, Zhiyong Feng, Yi Zhou
[PDF]

2018

ISWC 2018 Short paper
Dual-enhanced Word Representations Based on Knowledge Base
Fangyuan He, Yi Zhou, Haodi Zhang, Zhiyong Feng
[PDF]

2017

INFOCOM 2017 Demo abstract, pp. 968-969
An intent solver for enabling intent-based SDN
Haodi Zhang, Yu Wang, Xiangtong Qi, Weiping Xu, Tao Peng, Shucheng Liu
AIJ 248:1-8
Characterizing causal action theories and their implementations in answer set programming
Haodi Zhang, Fangzhen Lin
[PDF]

2016

AAAI 2016 pp. 1116-1123
Mapping Action Language BC to Logic Programs: A Characterization by Postulates
Haodi Zhang, Fangzhen Lin
[PDF]

2015

IJCAI 2015 pp. 3285-3291
Characterizing Causal Action Theories and Their Implementations in Answer Set Programming: Action Languages B, C, and Beyond
Haodi Zhang, Fangzhen Lin
[PDF]

Invited Talks

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Economic Brain of Avatars
The Bay Area Fintech University Forum
2022-02 · Shenzhen
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Deep Learning in NLP
The 2nd Macau Symposium on Linguistics
2021-12 · Macau University
Natural language processing: tasks, models and applications
The 2nd Interdisciplinary Frontier Forum
2021-11 · BNU Zhuhai
Leveraging Human Intelligence in Machine Learning for NLP
The 1st Macau Symposium on Linguistics
2020-12 · Macau University