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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 Meta | FB Reels. Prior to joining Meta, 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 obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology advised by Prof. Huamin Qu and my B.Eng. from Fudan University. In college, I also worked at Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems as a research assistant supervised by Prof. Haibo Chen.

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

Research / Work Experience

  • Present 2020.3

    Research Scientist

    Meta, 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.