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Haoran Xin

hxin883@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn
+86-189-9028-4840
Guangzhou, Guangdong, CN

Summary

Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at HKUST(GZ), researching Recommender Systems, Large Language Models, and Data Mining.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
    Present
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  • MPhil in Data Science (Computer Science and Technology)
    2023-06
    University of Science and Technology of China
  • B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology
    2020-06
    Hefei University of Technology
    GPA: 3.87/4.3 (rank 4/135, top 2.9%)

Work Experience

  • Research Intern
    2025-05-01 - 2026-02-01
    Tencent Ads, Tencent
    Large-scale generative models for advertising prediction and ad delivery optimization.
  • Research Intern
    2019-09-01 - 2023-04-01
    Business Intelligence Lab, Baidu Research
    Large-scale user behavior and spatiotemporal data processing. Applied cutting-edge technologies to map, feed, intelligent transportation, and other businesses.

Skills

Programming

  • Python
  • C++

Publications

  • LLMCDSR: Enhancing Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models
    2025
    ACM TOIS
    CCF-A. Leverages LLMs to enhance cross-domain sequential recommendation.
  • CAPTOR: A Crowd-Aware Pre-Travel Recommender System for Out-of-Town Users
    2022
    SIGIR 2022
    CCF-A. Crowd-aware pre-travel recommendation for out-of-town users.
  • Out-of-Town Recommendation with Travel Intention Modeling
    2021
    AAAI 2021
    CCF-A. Travel intention modeling for out-of-town POI recommendation.
  • How Business Agglomeration Affects Individual Points-of-Interest: A Causal Effect Estimation Perspective
    2026
    ACM TKDD
    CCF-B. Causal inference for business agglomeration impact analysis.
  • A Table-to-Text Framework with Heterogeneous Multidominance Attention and Self-Evaluated Multi-Pass Deliberation
    2023
    Findings of EMNLP 2023
    CCF-B. Table-to-text generation with heterogeneous attention.
  • RLCharge: Imitative Multi-Agent Spatiotemporal Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Recommendation
    2022
    IEEE TKDE
    CCF-A. Multi-agent RL for EV charging station recommendation.
  • Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging Recommendation Based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    2021
    WWW 2021
    CCF-A. Multi-agent RL for intelligent EV charging recommendation.
  • Parallel Temporal Encoder for Sign Language Translation
    2019
    ICIP 2019
    CCF-C. Parallel temporal encoder for sign language translation.

Languages

  • Chinese
    Native
  • English
    Professional (DET 125)

Interests

  • Recommender Systems
  • Large Language Models
  • Data Mining