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Meng Xiao*
PhD, Assistant Researcher

Bigdata Lab
Computer Network Information Center
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email: shaow@cnic.cn     xiaomeng7890@gmail.com
Address: No.2 Dongsheng South St, Beijing, P.R China, 100190 [GitHub] [Google Scholar] [DBLP] [WeChat] [ORCID]

About Me:

Meng Xiao received his PhD in June 2023 and is currently a Assistant Research Scientist (postdoctoral fellow) working in the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, mentored by Prof. Yuanchun Zhou. He has published more than 20 papers prolifically on top-tier venues such as IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD, AIJ, NeurIPS, IJCAI, IEEE ICDM, etc. He also serve as a PC member or reviewer on many premier international conferences and journals. Meng Xiao is honored to have been advised by Prof. Yuanchun Zhou, Prof. Yi Du, Prof. Yanjie Fu, and Dr. Min Wu, and is delighted to collaborate with young scholars such as Prof. Ziyue Qiao and Prof. Dongjie Wang.

He has been honored with the Special Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences President Scholarship (the first awardee of CNIC,CAS) in 2023, and the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program (2024-2026) by BAST.

Research Interests: Data-centric AI, AI4LifeScience, and Scientific Data Mining.


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Selected Publications (§ denotes the co-first author and * denotes the corresponding author) [Full List]

2024
TKDD 2024
Traceable Group-Wise Self-Optimizing Feature Transformation Learning: A Dual Optimization Perspective
Meng Xiao, Dongjie Wang, Min Wu, Kunpeng Liu, Hui Xiong, and Yuanchun Zhou, Yanjie Fu.
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2024
TKDD 2024
Interdisciplinary Fairness in Imbalanced Research Proposal Topic Inference: A Hierarchical Transformer-based Method with Selective Interpolation
Meng Xiao, Min Wu, Ziyue Qiao, Yanjie Fu, Zhiyuan Ning, Yi Du, Yuanchun Zhou.
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2024
ICDM 2024
SCReader: Prompting Large Language Models to Interpret scRNA-seq Data
Cong Li, Qingqing Long, Yuanchun Zhou, Meng Xiao*.
23th International Conference on DataMining, 2024
CIKM 2024
GUME: Graphs and User Modalities Enhancement for Long-Tail Multimodal Recommendation
Guojiao Lin, Zhen Meng, Dongjie Wang, Qingqing Long, Yuanchun Zhou, Meng Xiao*.
33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024
CIKM 2024
MOAT: Graph Prompting for 3D Molecular Graphs
Qingqing Long, Yuchen Yan, Wentao Cui, Zhihong Zhu, Wei Ju, Zhihong Zhu, Yuanchun Zhou, Xuezhi Wang, Meng Xiao*.
33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024
BIBM 2024
GENESUM: Large Language Model-based Gene Summary Extraction
Zhijian Chen, Chuan Hu, Min Wu, Qingqing Long, Xuezhi Wang, Yuanchun Zhou Meng Xiao*.
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2024
LREC-COLING 2024
DP-CRE: Continual Relation Extraction via Decoupled Contrastive Learning and Memory Structure Preservation
Mengyi Huang§, Meng Xiao§, Ludi Wang, Yi Du.
LREC-COLING, 2024
2023
TKDE 2023
Hierarchical Interdisciplinary Topic Detection Model for Research Proposal Classification
Meng Xiao, Ziyue Qiao, Yanjie Fu, Hao Dong, Yi Du, Pengyang Wang, Hui Xiong, and Yuanchun Zhou.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023
ICDM 2023
Beyond Discrete Selection: Continuous Embedding Space Optimization for Generative Feature Selection
Meng Xiao, Dongjie Wang, Min Wu, Pengfei Wang, Yuanchun Zhou, Yanjie Fu.
23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2023
SDM 2023
Traceable Automatic Feature Transformation via Cascading Actor-Critic Agents
Meng Xiao, Dongjie Wang, Min Wu, Ziyue Qiao, Pengfei Wang, Kunpeng Liu, Yuanchun Zhou, and Yanjie Fu.
2023 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2023
ICDM 2023
Resolving the Imbalance Issue in Hierarchical Disciplinary Topic Inference via LLM-based Data Augmentation
Xunxin Cai, Meng Xiao*, Zhiyuan Ning, and Yuanchun Zhou.
23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2023
NeurIPS 2023
Reinforcement-Enhanced Autoregressive Feature Transformation: Gradient-steered Search in Continuous Space for Postfix Expressions
Dongjie Wang§, Meng Xiao§, Min Wu, Pengfei Wang, Yuanchun Zhou, Yanjie Fu.
NeurIPS 2023 [Spotlight Paper], 2023
SDM 2023
NEEDED: Introducing Hierarchical Transformer to Eye Diseases Diagnosis
Xu Ye§, Meng Xiao§, Zhiyuan Ning, Weiwei Dai, Wenjuan Cui, Yi Du, Yuanchun Zhou.
2023 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2023
IJCAI 2023
Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation in Graph Transfer Learning
Ziyue Qiao§, Luo Xiao§, Meng Xiao§, Hao Dong, Yuanchun Zhou, Hui Xiong.
The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
2021
ICDM 2021
Expert Knowledge Guided Length-Variant Hierarchical Label Generation for Proposal Classification
Meng Xiao, Ziyue Qiao, Yanjie Fu, Yi Du, Pengyang Wang, and Yuanchun Zhou.
2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2021


Awards:

the Special Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences President Scholarshipthe Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2023.
the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program (2024-2026) Beijing Association for Science and Technology, 2024.
the High-level University Graduate Scholarship Program the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2022-2023
the 3rd Award of the Data Element Application Innovation Competitionthe China Information Industry Association, 2024.
the Merit Student Award the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2022, 2023
the Excellent Student Award Computer Network Information Center, CAS, 2019-2023


Academic Service:

Area Chair for AISTAT 2025.
Organizing Committee for CIKM 2024's Workshop The Third Workshop on Data-Centric AI (DCAI).
Co-chair for ICDM 2023/2024 The First/Forth Workshop on Data-Centric AI (DCAI).
Reviewer for NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2024-2025, SIGKDD 2023-2025, ACM MM 2024, ACM WWW 2024-2025, ICDM 2024.
Guest Editors for Special Issue "Distributed Deep Learning Model System and Applications" on Electronics.
Keynote Speaker for 9th Scientific Data Conference.
Reviewer for SDM 2024, CIKM 2023-2024, DASFAA 2024, IJCNN 2023-2024, IEEE BigData 2024.
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
Reviewer for Pattern Recognition.
Reviewer for Information Processing and Management.
Reviewer for Neural Networks.
Reviewer for BMC Bioinformatics.
Reviewer for Current Medicinal Chemistry.
Reviewer for Elsevier Data Science and Management.


(Co-) Advised Students:

Ph.D Students: Tianqi He (2023), Zaitian Wang (2023)
M.S Students: Xunxin Cai (2022, ICDM 2023), Guojiao Lin (2022, CIKM 2024), Zhijian Chen (2022), Weiliang Zhang (2023), Xiaohan Huang (2023), Cong Li (2023, ioz.cas, ICDM24), Zixin Chen (2024)
B.S Students: Junfeng Zhou (UCAS, 2021), Chenjuan Wu (University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2022)
Graduated Students: Xu Ye (2020 MS, SDM 2023), Mengyi Huang (2021 MS, COLING 24)


Main Lead / Participant Projects:

Research Projects
[Project Investigator] Large Language Models Based Omics Data Modeling Methods
Special Research Assistant Funded Project (特别研究助理资助计划, None, 2024-2026, 1/1, 800,000 RMB)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
[Project Investigator] Alignment of Complex Semantic Features in Genomics Based on Large Language Models
National Postdoctoral Funded Program (国家资助博士后项目, GZC20232736, 2024-2026, 1/1, 240,000 RMB)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
[Project Investigator] Optimization Algorithms for Single Cell Omics Data Based on Data Intelligence
General Program (博士后面上项目, 2023M743565, 2024-2026, 1/1, 80,000 RMB)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
[Executive Leader] Universal High-Quality Scientific Databases Supporting Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence
Major Research Project (重大研究计划项目) - Key Program (重点支持项目, No.92470204, 2025-2028, 3/8, 3000,000 RMB)
National Natural Science Foundation of China
[Project Participant] Construction of Knowledge Graph for Domain-Specific Big Data
Key Program (国自然重点项目, No.61836013, 2019-2023, 10/30, 2,880,000 RMB)
National Natural Science Foundation of China
[Project Participant] Mining Software for Photoelectric Catalytic Materials Based on Domain Knowledge Graph
, National Key Research and Development Program (国家重点研发计划) for Young Scientists (青年科学家项目, 2022YFF0712200, 2023-2025, 6/12, 2,000,000 RMB)
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China

Footnote:

* He is also good at brewing (🍺) , bartending (☕/🍸), and Rock-N-Roll (🎸).