Prof. Xiangen HU began his academic journey in applied mathematics, earning his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1982 and 1985, respectively. He then moved to the United States to further his education, obtaining a Master's in social sciences in 1991 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 1993.
Before his current position as a chair professor in learning sciences and technologies at PolyU, Prof. HU held several positions. He was a professor in the Departments of Psychology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science at The University of Memphis (UofM) for 30 years, where he also worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS). His leadership roles included serving as a professor and Dean of the School of Psychology at Central China Normal University (CCNU), leading the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Partnership Laboratory at UofM, and working as a senior researcher at the Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior, backed by the Chinese Ministry of Education.
Prof. HU's research focuses on four key areas: developing mathematical models to decode human cognitive behavior, specializing in research design and statistical analysis particularly for categorical data using general processing tree models, delving into artificial intelligence for knowledge representation, creating computerized tutoring systems, and enhancing distributed learning technologies.
His work has attracted significant funding from prestigious bodies like the US National Science Foundation, the US Institute of Education Sciences, the Advanced Distributed Learning initiative of the US Department of Defense, the US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, the US Army Research Laboratories, and the US Office of Naval Research. As the lead principal investigator, Prof. HU has managed projects with over $10 million in funding, and as a co-principal investigator, he has been involved in projects amassing more than $30 million in grants.
I am a "Shuang Long Scholar" Distinguished Professor at the Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Education Technology and Application, Zhejiang Normal University, China. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Information Technology from La Trobe University, Australia. Following that, I completed two postdoctoral fellowships: one at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Australia, and another at the Department of Information Technology in Education, South China Normal University, China. I have published extensively in top-tier journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI, Artificial Intelligence, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TAI, IEEE TBD, IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE TETCI, Computers & Education, BJET, NeurIPS, ICML, and IJCAI. I am a member of IEEE, the China Computer Federation (CCF), the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and an accredited member of the Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS). Additionally, I serve as a regular reviewer for leading journals such as IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TBD, IEEE TETCI, IEEE TAI, IEEE TII, IEEE TNSE, ACM TOIS, ACM TKDD, ACM TWEB, Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, Knowledge-Based Systems, Information Sciences, Expert Systems With Applications, Neurocomputing, etc.
As the leading guest editor, I organized a special issue on “Deep Neural Networks for Graphs: Theory, Models, Algorithms and Applications” in IEEE TNNLS, and a special session on "Recent Advances in Deep Learning for Graphs" in the 8th International Online & Onsite Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD2022). I am a PC member at top conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, WSDM, ICME, AJCAI, etc, a member of IEEE Task Force on Learning for Structured Data. I am an Associate Editor of Neural Networks, Associate Editor of Applied Intelligence, an Associate Editor of Alexandria Engineering Journal, an Associate Editor of Soft Computing, an Associate Editor of Network: Computation in Neural Systems, an Associate Editor of Neural Processing Letters, an Editorial Board Member of Education and Information Technologies.