Yingxue Zhang

Yingxue Zhang

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Binghamton University

Email: yzhang42@binghamton.edu

Biography

Yingxue Zhang is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department at Binghamton University. She got her Ph.D. degree in Data Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2022. Her broad research interests include: (1) designing novel data mining, machine learning and AI techniques to solve spatial-temporal big data analytics problems related to smart cities and public safety, and (2) human behavior analysis and decision making.

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Openings: I am looking for self-motivated PhD students to work on deep learning topics. I’m particularly interested in candidates with background in CS/AI/Data Mining/Machine Learning/Stat/Math and strong programming skills. Please send me a short email with your CV and transcript.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Imitation Learning
  • Spatial-Temporal Data Mining
  • Meta-Learning
Education
  • PhD in Data Science, 2022

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • MS in Financial Engineering, 2018

    Stevens Institute of Technology

  • BS in Computer Science, 2016

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Recent News

  • [Paper] 09/2024:One paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2024!
  • [Paper] 09/2024: One paper was accepted by ICDM 2024. Congratulations to Yuhang!
  • [TPC] 06/2024: PC for KDD 2025, AAAI 2025 and ICLR 2025.
  • [Paper] 05/2024: One paper was accepted by KDD 2024. Congratulations to Xinbo!
  • [TPC] 02/2024: PC for IJCAI 2024.
  • [TPC] 01/2024: PC for KDD 2024.
  • [TPC] 09/2023: PC for SDM 2024.
  • [TPC] 09/2023: PC for ICLR 2024.
  • [Student] 08/2023: Two Ph.D. students join the lab. Welcome, Xinbo and Yuhang!
  • [TPC] 08/2023: PC for AAAI 2024.
  • [TPC] 03/2023: PC for NeurIPS 2023.
  • [TPC] 01/2023: PC for KDD 2023 and IJCAI 2023.
  • [Paper] 12/2022: One paper was accepted by SDM 2023!
  • [Paper] 09/2022: Two papers were accepted by ICDM 2022!
  • [Position] 08/2022: Joined the Computer Science Department at Binghamton University as an Assistant Professor!
  • [TPC] 03/2022: PC for KDD 2022

Publications

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(2024). SolarCube: An Integrative Benchmark Dataset Harnessing Satellite and In-situ Observations for Large-scale Solar Energy Forecasting . NeurIPS 2024 (Datasets and Benchmarks Track), Vancouver, Canada (acceptance rate: ~25%).

(2024). Align Along Time and Space: A Graph Latent Diffusion Model for Traffic Dynamics Prediction. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 9-12 December 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE. (Acceptance rate = 19.5%).

(2024). Urban-Focused Multi-Task Offline Reinforcement Learning with Contrastive Data Sharing. The 30th SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain, August 25 to 29, 2024 (acceptance rate: ~20%).

(2022). STM-GAIL: Spatial-Temporal Meta-GAIL for Learning Diverse Human Driving Strategies. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM23), Minneapolis, April 27 - 39, 2023. (27.5% = 105/382 Acceptance Ratio).

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(2022). Mest-GAN: Cross-City Urban Traffic Estimation with Meta Spatial-Temporal Generative Adversarial Networks. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, (9.77%=85/870 Full paper acceptance ratio), Orlando, FL, Nov. 28 - Dec 1, 2022.

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Students

Current PhD Students

Xinbo Zhao

PhD Student, Computer Science, Binghamton University
M.S., Computer Science, Waseda University, 2023
B.S., Computer Science, SiChuan Univeristy, 2021

Yuhang Liu

PhD Student, Computer Science, Binghamton University
M.S., Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside, 2022
B.S., Software Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 2020

Master Students

Junjie Xu (MS student in CS at Binghamton University), Summer 2023-Fall 2023

Teaching

  • INFO 501 Information Systems I-Python and Data Mining
  • INFO 535 Applied Data Mining
  • INFO 536 Applied Machine Learning

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