Finding critical users in social networks with reinforcement learning

I completed my PhD at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2026, supervised by Prof. Ying Zhang, A/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.