Yan Zhao (赵艳)

Assistant Professor (助理教授)

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Email: yanz@cs.aau.dk

Address: Office 3.2.38, Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300, DK-9220, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

Short Biography

Dr. Yan Zhao is an Assistant Professor with Aalborg University (AAU). She received the Ph.D. degree of Computer Science from Soochow University (advised by Prof. Kai Zheng), in 2020. She received the Master degree of Geographic Information System from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2015. Her research interests include spatial database, trajectory computing, data mining, machine learning and deep learning.

Journal Papers (* Corresponding author)

  1. [TOIS] Yue Cui, Hao Sun, Yan Zhao, Hongzhi Yin, Kai Zheng*: Sequential-knowledge-aware Next POI Recommendation: A Meta-learning Approach. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (Accepted in April 2021)

  2. [TKDE] Xuanhao Chen, Yan Zhao, Guanfeng Liu, Rui Sun, Xiaofang Zhou, Kai Zheng*: Efficient Similarity-aware Influence Maximization in Geo-social Network. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Accepted in December 2020)

  3. [TKDE] Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng*, Hongzhi Yin, Guanfeng Liu, Junhua Fang, Xiaofang Zhou: Preference-aware Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: from Individuals to Groups. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Accepted in August 2020)

  4. [DSE] Xiang Li, Yan Zhao*, Xiaofang Zhou, Kai Zheng: Consensus-Based Group Task Assignment with Social Impact in Spatial Crowdsourcing. Data Science and Engineering 5 (4), 375-390

  5. [TKDE] Meng Chen, Yan Zhao, Xiaohui Yu, Kai Zheng*: Modeling Spatial Trajectories with Attribute Representation Learning. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Accepted in Jun 2020)

  6. [TKDE] Junhua Fang, Rong Zhang, Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng*, Xiaofang Zhou, Aoying Zhou: A-DSP: An Adaptive Join Algorithm for Dynamic Data Stream on Cloud System. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Accepted in Oct 2019)

  7. [TKDE] Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng*, Yang Li, Han Su, Jiajun Liu, Xiaofang Zhou: Destination-aware Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: A Worker Decomposition Approach. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 32(12): 2336-2350 (2020)

  8. [TKDE] Kai Zheng, Yan Zhao*, Defu Lian, Bolong Zheng, Guanfeng Liu, Xiaofang Zhou: Reference-based Framework for Spatio-temporal Trajectory Compression and Query Processing. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 32(11): 2227-2240 (2020) (the first author is Yan Zhao’s supervisor)

  9. [WWWJ] Anqi Zhao, Guanfeng Liu, Bolong Zheng, Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng: Temporal Paths Discovery with Multiple Constraints in Attributed Dynamic Graphs[J]. WWWJ. 1-24 (2019)

Conference Papers (* Corresponding author)

  1. [ICDE] Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng*, Jiannan Guo, Bin Yang, Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen: Fairness-aware Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: Game-Theoretic Approaches. ICDE 2021, Crete, Greece

  2. [ICDE] Yan Zhao, Jiannan Guo, Xuanhao Chen, Jianye Hao, Xiaofang Zhou, Kai Zheng*: Coalition-based Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing. ICDE 2021, Crete, Greece

  3. [ICDE] Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng*, Yue Cui, Han Su, Feida Zhu, Xiaofang Zhou: Predictive Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: A Data-driven Approach. ICDE 2020: 13-24, Dallas, Texas, USA

  4. [DASFAA] Xiang Li, Yan Zhao*, Jiannan Guo, Kai Zheng: Group task assignment with social impact-based preference in spatial crowdsourcing. DASFAA 2020: 677-693, Jeju, South Korea

  5. [ICDM] Huizhao Wang, Guanfeng Liu, Yan Zhao, Bolong Zheng, Pengpeng Zhao, Kai Zheng*: DMFP: A Dynamic Multi-faceted Fine-grained Preference Model for Recommendation.ICDM 2019: 608-617, Beijing, China

  6. [IJCAI] Jinfu Xia, Yan Zhao (co-first author), Guanfeng Liu, Jiajie Xu, Min Zhang, Kai Zheng*: Profit-driven Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing. IJCAI 2019: 1914-1920, Macau, China

  7. [KDD] Yue Cui, Liwei Deng, Yan Zhao, Vicent W. Zheng, Bin Yao, Kai Zheng*: Hidden POI Ranking with Spatial Crowdsourcing. SIGKDD 2019: 814-824, Anchorage, Alaska

  8. [AAAI] Yan Zhao, Jinfu Xia, Guanfeng Liu, Han Su, Defu Lian, Shuo Shang and Kai Zheng*: Preference-aware Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing. AAAI 2019: 2629-2636, Hawaiian, USA

  9. [DPD] Hao Zhou, Yan Zhao*, Junhua Fang, Xuanhao Chen, Kai Zeng: Hybrid route recommendation with taxi and shared bicycles[J]. Distributed and Parallel Databases. 1-12 (2019)

  10. [DASFAA] Huiping Yang, Yan Zhao, Jinfu Xia, Bin Yao, Min Zhang, Kai Zheng*: Music Playlist Recommendation with Long Short-Term Memory. DASFAA 2019: 416-432, Thailand

  11. [DASFAA] Lianming Zhou, Xuanhao Chen, Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng*: Top-K Spatio-Topic Query on Social Media Data. DASFAA 2019: 678-693, Thailand

  12. [MTA] Junwen Lu, Guanfeng Liu, Bolong Zheng, Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng: Social Context-aware Trust Paths Finding for Trustworthy Service Provider Selection in Social Media. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 78(17): 24473-24500 (2019)

  13. [WISE] Maoxiang Hao, Zhixu Li*, Yan Zhao and Kai Zheng: Mining High-Quality Fine-Grained Type Information from Chinese Online Encyclopedias. WISE 2018: 345-360, Dubai

  14. [DASFAA] Wenyan Yang, Yan Zhao, Bolong Zheng*, Guanfeng Liu and Kai Zheng: Modeling Travel Behavior Similarity with Trajectory Embedding. DASFAA 2018: 630-646, Australia

  15. [DASFAA] Mengdi Jia, Yan Zhao, Bolong Zheng, Guanfeng Liu and Kai Zheng*: A Time-aware Path-based Publish/Subscribe Framework. DASFAA 2018: 511-528, Australia

  16. [KDD] Yan Zhao, Shuo Shang, Yu Wang, Bolong Zheng, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen and Kai Zheng*: REST: A Reference-based Framework for Spatio-temporal Trajectory Compression. KDD 2018: 2797-2806, London, UK

  17. [CIKM] Yan Zhao, Yang Li, Yu Wang, Han Su, Kai Zheng*: Destination-aware Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing. CIKM 2017: 297-306, Singapore

  18. [APWEB] Yan Zhao, Jia Zhu*, Mengdi Jia, Wenyan Yang, Kai Zheng: A Novel Hybrid Friends Recommendation Framework for Twitter. APWEB 2017: 83-97, Beijing, China

Honors and Awards

2019.01, AAAI 2019 Travel Award

2018.08, SIGKDD 2018 Travel Award

2017.11, CIKM 2017 Travel Award

2014.08, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Scholarship, Germany

Professional Activities

Senior Program Committee Member: IJCAI 2021

Program Committee Member: AAAI 2021, MDM 2021, SpatialDI 2021