Jianke Yu

Jianke Yu

(he/him)

PhD (2026) in Graph Machine Learning & Databases

University of Technology Sydney

Zhejiang Gongshang University (incoming, 2027)

Professional Summary

I completed my PhD at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2026, supervised by Prof. Ying Zhang, Prof. Lu Qin and Dr Hanchen Wang. My research develops machine learning algorithms for graph-structured data and database systems — graph neural network architectures, and learning-based methods that improve database and data-mining algorithms (fraud detection, graph similarity, supergraph search, malware detection). My work has appeared in KDD and IEEE TKDE. I am joining Zhejiang Gongshang University as a faculty member in 2027.

Education

PhD, Information Technology

2023-07-01
2026-09-09

University of Technology Sydney

M.Eng, Electronic Information

2020-09-01
2023-06-30

Zhejiang Gongshang University

B.Eng, Electronic Information Engineering

2016-09-01
2020-06-30

Zhejiang Gongshang University

Interests

Graph Neural Networks Graph Databases AI for Databases Fraud Detection Knowledge Graphs
📰 Recent News

🎉 Paper published in IEEE TKDE (2026)

SARL: A Scalable Attribute-Informed Representation Learning Framework for Bipartite Graphs is published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). The work studies attribute-informed representation learning on bipartite graphs and scales it to large graphs.

🎉 Paper published in IEEE TKDE (2026)

MGDN: A Graph of Graphs Neural Network for Malware Detection is published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).

🔬 Research

I build machine learning algorithms for graph-structured data and database systems.

My work spans two directions: (1) graph neural network architectures that model complex, heterogeneous or incomplete graphs — fraud detection on e-commerce platforms, graph similarity computation, supergraph containment search and malware detection; and (2) learning-based methods for data management — using graph learning and representation techniques to speed up the algorithms behind databases and data-mining systems.

Recent work has appeared in KDD 2023 and IEEE TKDE (2024, 2025, 2026).

📄 Selected Publications
MGDN: A Graph of Graphs Neural Network for Malware Detection
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2026 First author CCF-A CAS Zone 1 Top JCR Q1 DOI
SARL: A Scalable Attribute-Informed Representation Learning Framework for Bipartite Graphs
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2026 First author CCF-A CAS Zone 1 Top JCR Q1 DOI
Temporal Insights for Group-Based Fraud Detection on e-Commerce Platforms
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2024 First author CCF-A CAS Zone 1 Top JCR Q1 DOI
Group-based Fraud Detection Network on e-Commerce Platforms
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2023 First author CCF-A DOI
🧑‍🏫 Academic Services

Invited Talks

  • Scalable Big Data Computation, Seminar, School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Peer Reviewing

  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2025

Teaching

  • Guest Lecturer, 43023 Emerging Topics in AI (Large-Scale Graph topic block), University of Technology Sydney, Aug 2025
  • Teaching Assistant, COMP9311 Database Systems, UNSW Sydney, Term 3 2023
  • Teaching Assistant, DATA1001 Introduction to Data Science, UNSW Sydney, Term 2 2024 & Term 2 2025

Research Infrastructure

  • Platform Administrator, research computing platform of Prof. Ying Zhang & Prof. Xiaoyang Wang’s team, Zhejiang Gongshang University (since 2021)

Community

  • Student Volunteer / session support, research seminars of the Data Science and Machine Learning group, UTS, 2024
🏆 Awards & Honors
  • National Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (2025–2026) · China Scholarship Council · 2026
  • UTS FEIT HDR Excellence Award — Individual Category, Distinction · University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Engineering and IT · 2025
  • Excellent Practical Achievement Award for Professional Master Students · Education Department of Zhejiang Province · 2023
  • UTS ARC Discovery Project Scholarship (Full Scholarship) · University of Technology Sydney / Australian Research Council · 2023
  • UTS International Research Scholarship · University of Technology Sydney · 2023
  • Second Prize, 4th Zhejiang Province University Student Robotics Competition · Zhejiang Province · 2019
  • Second Prize, “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition · Zhejiang Gongshang University · 2019