Dandan LIN

Bio

My name is Dandan LIN (林丹丹). I am currently a researcher at Shenzhen Institute of Computing Sciences (SICS). In Jan. 2021, I received my Ph.D. degree in The Department of CSE (Computer Science & Engineering) at HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), supervised by Prof. Raymond Chi-Wing Wong. Before Joining HKUST, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree of Engineering from SCUT (South China University of Technology) in 2015.

Work & Research Experience

- Researcher
Shenzhen Institute of Computing Sciences, China, Jun. 2023 - Present
- Applied Researcher
WeChat, Tencent Inc. , China, Apr. 2021 - Jun. 2023
- Reseach Intern
Noah’s Ark Research Lab, Huawei , Shenzhen, China, Sep. 2020 - Jan. 2021
- Software Engineer Intern
Intel, Inc., Beijing, China, Jul. 2014 - Nov. 2014
- Software Engineer Intern
NetEase, Inc., Guangzhou, China, Dec. 2013 - Mar. 2014
- Research Visitor
University College London, London, United Kingdom, Nov. 2013 - Nov. 2013
- Research Visitor
Chinese Unversity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Nov. 2012 - Nov. 2012

Research Interests

- Large-scale graph analysis, especially similarity measures including Personalized PageRank (PPR).

- Efficient algorithms with rigorous bounds on social networks.

- Graph Neural Networks.

- Recommendation System.

- Graph-based Mining.

- Logic Rule Discovery for Machine Learning

Awards & Honors

- Outstanding Collection of Technical Papers in 2022 (Research and Application of GNN Technology), WeChat, May 2023
- Best Tech KM Article in April 2022, WeChat, Sep. 2022
- Overseas High-Caliber Personnel (深圳海外高层次人才）, Shenzhen Government, Aug. 2021
- Research Travel Grant, HKUST, Jan. 2020
- Student Travel Grant, jointly sponsored by the NSF, IEEE TCII, and ICDM2019, Nov. 2019
- The Second Runner-up of Hong Kong Computer Inteligence Competition, Hong Kong Chapter, IEEE, Aug. 2019
- Best Poster(非凡潜力奖), Didi Chuxing, Inc., Jun. 2017
- Ph.D. Scholarship, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2015-2020
- Outstanding Graduate, South China University of Technology, Jul. 2015
- National Scholarship (twice), South China University of Technology, Oct. 2012 and Oct. 2013
- First Prize Student Scholarship, South China University of Technology, Oct. 2014
- Third Grade of Hong Ping Chang Qing Scholarship, South China University of Technology, May. 2014
- Third Prizer of the IBM Master the Mainframe Contest China, Nov. 2013
- First Prizer of the IBM Master the Mainframe Contest China (SCUT), Jun. 2013

Community Services

- As an invited Program Committee Member for the following conferences:
2025: ICDE, PAKDD
2024: CIKM, SDM, LoG, BigData, PAKDD
2023: KDD, CIKM, SIGSPATIAL, PAKDD
2022: CIKM, PAKDD
2021: SSTD, CIKM, PAKDD
- As an invited Program Committee Member for the following journals:
2025: TKDE
2024: TKDE
2023: TKDE
2020: VLDBJ
- As an external reviewer for the following conferences:
2026: SIGMOD
2025: SIGMOD
2020: ICDE, APWeb-WAIM
2019: VLDB, ICDE, KDD, ICDM, CIKM, SIGSPATIAL, APWeb-WAIM, DASFAA, PAKDD, SIGMOD_TURC, ASONAM
2018: SIGMOD, ICDE, KDD, ICDM, PAKDD, BigComp, SIGSPATIAL_GIS, APWeb-WAIM
2017: KDD, ICDM, CIKM, SDM, PAKDD, APWeb-WAIM
2016: SIGMOD, KDD, PAKDD
- As an external reviewer for the following journals:
2019: VLDBJ, TKDE