• [Sept. 2022] New Group Website has lauched: https://ucla-dm.github.io/DM_website/index.html
• [Sept. 2022] Three papers have been accepted by NeurIPS'22. Congratulations to Arjun, Shichang, and Ziniu!
• [Sept. 2022] Junheng has succesfully passed thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Hao!
• [Sept. 2022] Vivian Cheng has received Amazon Fellowship. Congratulations to Vivian and Thanks Amazon!
• [Sept. 2022] I received VLDB Test of Time Award at VLDB'22.
• [Aug. 2022] A New NSF Award on Automating High Level Synthesis via Graph-Centric Deep Learning has been funded, a joint work with Jason Cong.
• [May 2019] Our paper "Few-Shot Representation Learning for Out-Of-Vocabulary Words" is accepted by ACL'19. Congratulations Ziniu and Ting!
• [May 2019] Our paper "Unsupervised Inductive Graph-Level Representation Learning via Graph-Graph Proximity" is accepted by IJCAI'19. Congratulations Yunsheng!
• [May 2019] Attending SDM'19 and ICLR'19.
• [Apr. 2019] Our paper "Universal Representation Learning of Knowledge Bases by Jointly Embedding Instances and Ontological Concepts" is accepted by KDD'19 for oral presentation. Congratulations Junheng!
• [Apr. 2019] Received Okawa Foundation Research Grant (https://www.cs.ucla.edu/professor-yizhou-sun-wins-2019-okawa-research-grant/)
• [Mar. 2019] Ting Chen smoothly passed PhD Defense. Congratulations, Dr. Chen!
• [Jan. 2019] Received 2018 Amazon Research Award. Thank you Amazon! (https://ara.amazon-ml.com/recipients/#2018)
• [Nov. 2018] Officially promoted to Associate Professor, effective July 1st, 2018.
• [Oct. 2018] Yupeng Gu smoothly passed PhD Defense. Congratulations, Dr. Gu!
• [July 2018] Teaching at PKU Summer School, visiting Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Alibaba, ByteDance, and PPDai.
• [Aug. 2017] Giving talk at MIT, attending KDD'17, and giving talk at HRL.
• [Jul. 2017] Visiting Bay Area: giving talks at Google, Standford, Facebook and Pinterest, and visiting Airbnb and Otto Radio.
• [Apr. 2017] Attending WWW'17 Conference.
• [Mar. 2017] Invited Talks at SnapChat, HeartBD2K, and CMU Tepper Business School.
• [Feb. 2017] Attending WSDM'17 Conference.
• [Nov. 2016] Invited Talks at USC Information Sciences Institute and UCSD.
• [Oct. 2016] Visiting UIUC for CS @ ILLINOIS Alumni Awards and invited talk at DAIS Seminar.
• [Aug. 2016] Keynote at KDD MLG workshop, and invited talk at Ancestry.
• [July 2016] Invited Talks at MSRA, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shandong University
• [July 2016] I have joined CS Department of UCLA this Summer.
• [Dec. 2015] Two papers have been accepted by SDM'16.
• [Oct. 2015] Invited Talk at BU Data Management Seminar
• [Oct. 2015] Invited Talk at UMASS Dartmouth
• [May 2015] Invited Talk at UMASS Medical School Quantitative Methods Core Methods Seminar.
• [Mar. 2015] I received NSF CAREER Award.
• [Sep. 2014] Invited Talk at BU Data Management Seminar: http://www.bu.edu/cs/news/calendar/?eid=157906
• [Aug. 2014] Invited Talk at NEC Labs
• [Aug. 2014] Attending KDD'14@NYC
• [Aug. 2014] Attending MIT Lincoln Labs GraphEx Symposium: https://conferences.ll.mit.edu/graphex/
• [Aug. 2014] Two of our papers got accepted by CIKM'14.
• [May 2014] Our paper "Topic-Factorized Ideal Point Estimation Model for Legislative Voting Network" got accepted by KDD'14.
• [Mar. 2014] Invited Talk at UMass Lowell CS colloquium.
• [Dec. 2013] Attending ICDM conference.
• [Oct. 2013] Gave a talk at WIN (Workshop on Information in Networks) on "information diffusion in heterogeneous information networks": http://www.winworkshop.net/
• [Sep. 2013] I received 2013 Yahoo ACE (Academic Career Enhancement) Award: http://labs.yahoo.com/news/2013-yahoo-ace-award-recipients-selected
• [Jul - Aug 2013] I was visiting Renmin University, Tsinghua University, and Peking University in China.
• [Jul. 2013] I received ACM SIGKDD 2013 Dissertation Award: http://www.kdd.org/kdd2013/sigkdd-2013-dissertation-award.
• [May. 2013] Our paper "LCARS: A Local-Content-Aware Recommender System" was accpeted by KDD'13.
• [Apr. 2013] We are orgnaizing Mining Data Semantics in Heterogeneous Information Networks Workshop (MDS'2013)  in conjunction with SIGKDD2013:  http://arnetminer.org/MDS2013 (submission deadline: June 13th); and Workshop on Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis (HINA'13) in conjuction with IJCAI2013: http://www.kddresearch.org/Workshops/HINA-2013/ (submission deadline: May 25th).
• [Jan. 2013] I start my new position as an assistant professor in Northeastern University.
• [Dec. 2012] Paper "ETM: Entity Topic Models for Mining Documents Associated with Entities" (ICDM'12) is selected as one of the best papers in ICDM'12 and is invited to KAIS journal submission.
• [Dec. 2012] Paper "PathSelClus: Integrating Meta-Path Selection with User-Guided Object Clustering in Heterogeneous Information Networks" is accepted by ACM TKDD journal special issue.