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Yanhong Wu

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  • HKUST

About Me

My name is Yanhong Wu (武延宏), currently a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Applied Research (FAIAR). Prior to joining Facebook, I was a Staff Research Scientist at Visa Research and a Post-doctoral Researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center conducting research on graph representation learning. I also worked at INRIA and Microsoft Research Asia as a visiting scholar focusing on large graph mining and visualization.

I received my Ph.D. degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology advised by Prof. Huamin Qu and obtained my bachelor degree from Software School, Fudan University in June 2013. During college study, I was also a research assistant at Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, supervised by Prof. Haibo Chen.

My research areas include Graph Modeling, Deep Learning, and Visual Analytics.

Research / Work Experience

  • Present 2020.3

    Research Scientist

    Facebook AI, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.

  • 2020.3 2018.3

    Staff Research Scientist

    Visa Research, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.

  • 2018.3 2017.8

    Post-doctoral Researcher

    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, U.S.

  • 2016.10 2016.5

    Visiting Scholar

    Aviz Lab, INRIA, Paris, France

  • 2015.9 2015.6

    Research Intern

    Internet Graphic Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

Education

  • Ph.D.2014 - 2017

    Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST

  • B.Eng.2009 - 2013

    Bachelor of Engineering

    Software School, Fudan University

Honors and Awards

  • 2016
    ACM SIGCHI Honorable Mention Award of Best Paper
    Granted to fewer than 5% of all the submitted papers at CHI'16.
  • 2016
    HKUST Overseas Research Award
    Granted to 10+ PhD candidates in the School of Engineering, HKUST.
  • 2015
    Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Nomination Award
    Granted to 10+ junior PhD students in Asia-Pacific.
  • 2015
    Microsoft Research Asia Stars of Tomorrow (Award of Excellence)
    Obtained during the internship at Microsoft Research Asia.
  • 2012
    Outstanding College Student of Fudan University
    Granted to 3 among 80+ students at Software School, Fudan University.
  • 2011
    Championship of IShamrock Software Design Competition
    Held by Fudan University and University College Dublin. More than 30 teams from Fudan University participated in this competition.
  • 2007
    First Prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces
    A national algorithm competition, the first prizes are granted to top 3% students among 1000+ registers in Jilin Province, China.