Associate Professor

Sun Yat-sen University
Shenzhen, China

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Email: yaoliang3@mail.sysu.edu.cn

General

I am currently an Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University. From 2019 to 2024, I was a senior researcher at Tencent. From 2018 to 2019, I was a Postdoc researcher at Northwestern University, working with Prof. Yuan Luo. In 2017, I got my Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University. I received my B.E.degree from Sichuan University in 2012. My research interest is primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Data Mining. You can find me at yaoliang3 [at] mail.sysu.edu.cn or learn more about me with my [Google Scholar], [Github], and [CV].

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Medical Informatics.

News

• 2024-12: joined Sun Yat-sen University as an Associate Professor.

Selected Publications [Full List]

• Liang Yao, Jiazhen Peng, Shenggong Ji, Qiang Liu, Hongyun Cai, Feng He, Xu Cheng.
  Friend Ranking in Online Games via Pre-training Edge Transformers.
  Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023).
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao, Chengsheng Mao, Yuan Luo.
  Graph Convolutional Networks for Text Classification.
  33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19).
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao.
  Large Language Models are Contrastive Reasoners.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08211.
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao, Jiazhen Peng, Chengsheng Mao, Yuan Luo.
  Exploring Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Completion.
  50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025).
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao, Chengsheng Mao, Yuan Luo.
  KG-BERT: BERT for Knowledge Graph Completion.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03193.
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao, Zhe Jin, Chengsheng Mao, Yin Zhang, Yuan Luo.
  Traditional Chinese medicine clinical records classification with BERT and domain specific corpora.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Volume 26, Issue 12, December 2019, Pages 1632–1636
  [PDF] [Data & Code]

• Liang Yao, Yin Zhang, Baogang Wei, Wenjin Zhang, Zhe Jin.
  A Topic Modeling Approach for Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). Volume: 30, Issue: 6, 01 June 2018)
  [PDF] [Data & Code]

• Liang Yao, Yin Zhang, Baogang Wei, Zhe Jin, Rui Zhang, Yangyang Zhang, Qinfei Chen.
  Incorporating Knowledge Graph Embeddings into Topic Modeling.
  31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17).
  [PDF] [Code]

Academic Services

• Conference PC Member/Reviewer: AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, ECML-PKDD.
• Journal Reviewer: TKDE, Neural Networks, ACM Computing Surveys, JBI, etc.

Selected Awards