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Xuejiao Zhao

Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

LILY Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University

About me

Hi there, I am Xuejiao Zhao (赵雪娇). Currently, I am a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow (PPF) at the LILY Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, working with Prof. Chunyan Miao. My research interests are AI in Healthcare, Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs, and Human-Computer Interaction.

I spent my first year of PPF in RPL, KTH Royal Institute of Technology working with Prof. Danica Kragic.

I obtained my DPhil (i.e. PhD) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at NTU, Singapore. I'm honored to be supervised by Prof. Chunyan Miao and Prof. Zhenchang Xing.

News

  • I'm opening some vacancies for high quality and self-motivated Research Assistant (full-time) and Student Interns (3 months-1 year) in areas related to LLMs, GNN, Deep Learning, AI in Healthcare. Feel free to send me your CV if you are interested!
  • [2024/07]   "SpeciaLLM" is awarded the ICCSE/ICAA'24 Best Poster Award by the Association for Crowd Science and Engineering (ACE)! Thanks to our team members and the ACE Committee!
  • [2024/07]   The phase I of our medical specialist large language model - "SpeciaLLM" is launched on Hugging Face!
  • [2024/06]   I am invited to be a keynote speaker of ARIAL@IJCAI'24. See you at IJCAI'24 in Jeju!
  • [2024/06]   In response to numerous requests, I have created a template for this academic homepage here!
  • [2024/05]   Our blockbuster - 'A Survey of Artificial Intelligence in Gait-Based Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis' and related resources are now available online!
  • [2024/05]   The IEEE IJCS Special Issue 'AI for Health and Ageless Aging', for which I served as Guest Editor, is now officially online. Welcome to follow and cite the papers!
  • [2024/04]   1 papers are accepted by Advanced Engineering Informatics!
  • [2024/03]   We are hosting the 4th AIAA workshop, conjunction with IJCAI2024, now calling for papers!
  • [2024/03]   Awarded Third Place at the reSHEarch Showcase 2024! Thanks, Society of Women Engineering!
  • [2022/12]   Awarded Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPF).
  • [2022/08]   Awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad!
  • [2022/02]   Started visiting research at C-FAIR of Shan Dong University!
  • [2022/01]   1 papers are accepted by Advanced Engineering Informatics!
  • [2021/10]   1 papers are accepted by TNNLS!
  • [2018/10]   Awarded the "Best Industry Paper Award" by ISSRE2018.
  • [2018/09]   Awarded the "IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award" by ICSME2018.
  • [2018/09]   Our paper was nominated for the "Best Industry Paper Award" by ISSRE2018.
  • [2018/07]   Awarded the "Most Entertaining Video Award" by IJCAI2018.
  • [2017/12]   I, together with a colleague and our supervisor, presented our "Age in Place" to the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Mr Teo Chee Hean. [Press Coverage]
  • Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

    A Survey of Artificial Intelligence in Gait-Based Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis
    Haocong Rao, Minlin Zeng, Xuejiao Zhao, Chunyan Miao
    Arxiv
    [Paperlink] [Resource]

    Editorial of Special Issue on AI for Health and Ageless Aging
    Xuejiao Zhao
    International Journal of Crowd Science, IJCS
    [Paperlink]

    LM2D: Lyrics- and Music-Driven Dance Synthesis
    Wenjie Yin, Xuejiao Zhao*, Yi Yu, Hang Yin, Danica Kragic, Marten Bjorkman (* Co-first author)
    Arxiv
    [Paperlink] [VIDEO]

    Data Collection, Data Mining and Transfer of Learning based on Customer Temperament-centered Complaint Handling System and One-of-a-kind Complaint Handling Dataset
    Ching-Hung Lee, Xuejiao Zhao* (* Co-first author and Corresponding author)
    Advanced Engineering Informatics, AEI
    [Paperlink], [Dataset]

    Cheating Your Apps: Black-box Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Apps
    Hongchen Cao, Shuai Li, Yuming Zhou, Ming Fan, Xuejiao Zhao, Yutian Tang
    Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, JSEP
    [Paperlink]

    Heterogeneous Star Graph Attention Network for Product Attributes Prediction
    Xuejiao Zhao, Yong Liu, Yonghui Xu, Yonghua Yang, Xusheng Luo, Chunyan Miao
    Advanced Engineering Informatics, AEI
    [Paperlink] [Code] [Dataset] [Zhihu]

    Brain-inspired Search Engine Assistant based on Knowledge Graph
    Xuejiao Zhao, Huanhuan Chen, Zhenchang Xing, Chunyan Miao
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, TNNLS
    [Paperlink]

    A Survey of Smart Healthcare for the Elderly based on User Requirements and Supply Accessibility
    Ching-Hung Lee, Zehao Zhang, Xuejiao Zhao* (* Corresponding author)
    The 5th International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering, ICCSE 2021
    [Paperlink]

    Service Quality Driven Approach for Innovative Retail Service System Design and Evaluation: A Case Study
    Ching-Hung Lee, Xuejiao Zhao, Yu-Chi LEE
    Journal of Computers & Industrial Engineering, CAIE
    [Paperlink]

    A comprehensive exploration to the machine learning techniques for diabetes identification
    Sidong Wei, Xuejiao Zhao, Chunyan Miao
    IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 2018
    [Paperlink]

    Gamified Rehabilitation for Pain Distraction in Total-Knee-Replacement Patients
    Xuejiao Zhao, Qiong Wu, X. Jessie Yang, Yang Qiu, Huiguo Zhang, Chunyan Miao
    CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
    [Paperlink]

    A Smart Context-aware Program Assistant based on Dynamic Programming Event Modeling
    Xuejiao Zhao, Hongwei Li, Yutian Tang, Dongjing Gao, Lingfeng Bao, Ching-Hung Lee
    The 29th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2018
    [Paperlink]

    Developing a Quick Response Product Configuration System under Industry 4.0 Based on Customer Requirement Modelling and Optimization Method
    Ching-Hung Lee Chun-Hsien Chen, Chenyu Lin, Fan Li, Xuejiao Zhao
    Journal of Applied Sciences
    [Paperlink]

    Improving API Caveats Accessibility by Mining API Caveats Knowledge Graph
    Hongwei Li, Sirui Li, Jiamou Sun, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Peng, Mingwei Liu, Xuejiao Zhao
    The 34th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2018
    [Paperlink]

    HDSKG: Harvesting domain-specific knowledge graph from the content of webpages
    Xuejiao Zhao, Zhenchang Xing, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Naoya Sawada, Jing Li, Shang-Wei Lin
    IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2017
    [Paperlink]

    Invited Talks and Showcases

  • "Large Language Models based Specialists", AIAA@IJCAI'24, 2024.08
  • "AI-Powered Healthcare: From Blood Age to Medical LLMs", Keynote Speaker of ARIAL@IJCAI'24, 2024.08
  • "Insights from My Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship: Experiences and Research", SCSE GSC, 2024.04
  • "Educating Large Language Models to Become a Doctor", The reSHEarch Showcase 2024, 2024.03
  • "SpeciaLLM: Large Language Models based Specialist", WASP Winter Conference 2024, Sweden, 2024.01
  • "Knowledge Graph Technologies and their Application", Zhejiang University & Huawei Chaspark, 2022.02
  • "Knowledge Graph and their Applications in Healthcare", Smart Healthcare Forum 2021, 2022.01
  • "A Smart Context-aware Program Assistant", IEEE Woman in Engineering Conference 2021, 2022.08
  • "Harvesting Domain Specific Knowledge Graph", Chong Qing University, 2019.04
  • Professional Services

  • Session Chair for the "NLP: Language Models" session at IJCAI'24
  • Co-organizer and PC Member of the 4th AI for Ageless Aging Workshop@IJCAI'24
  • Co-organizer, PC Member and On-site Chair of the 3rd AI for Ageless Aging Workshop @IJCAI'23
  • Co-organizer and PC Member of the 2nd AI for Cognitive and Physical Frailty Seminar @IJCAI'22
  • Co-organizer and PC Member of the 1st AI for Cognitive and Physical Frailty Workshop @IJCAI'21
  • Co-PI of Natural Science Foundation Project "Research on the Relationship and Improvement between Urban Public Open Space and Citizens' Mental Health"
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue "AI for Health and Ageless Aging" on International Journal of Crowd Science (IJCS)
  • PC Member: AAAI'22, AAAI'23, ACMMM'22, ACMMM'23, CHI, ICCSE'21, NeurIPS'22
  • Journal Reviewer: Information Sciences, AEI, Scientific Data
  • Selected Honors & Scholarships

  • ACE ICCSE/ICAA'24 Best Poster Award (Top 1 in Poster Exhibition)
  • Third Place at the reSHEarch Showcase of NTU
  • Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (17/1400)
  • Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
  • ISSRE Best Industry Paper (Top 1 in Industry Track)
  • ICSME IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award (Top 4 in Research Track)
  • IJCAI Most Entertaining Video Award
  • National Scholarship of China (Top 1%)
  • Lixin Tang Elite Student Scholarship (Top 0.01%)
  • First-Class Scholarship for Two Times (Top 1 in School)
  • Excellent Leader of the Association for Science and Technology of AA of UESTC
  • Third Prize in Sichuan Province at the National Electronics Design Contest of China
  • Supervised & Co-Supervised Students

    • Yiyang Zhao, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 2024.08-Present
    • Ziao Gao, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 2024.08-Present
    • Siyan Liu, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2024.05-Present
    • Muxuan Li, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 2024.04-Present
    • Boyue Jiang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2023.06-Present
    • Di Yang, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2023.05-Present
    • Xiao Yang, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 2022.10-Present
    • Abdul Hakiim Jalil, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 2023.05-2023.10
    • Yipeng Bao, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 2022.09-2022.11
    • Sidong Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2017.10-2018.02

    Leadership Experiences

    CSS Club for Lixin Tang Elite Student Scholarship (UESTC and Singapore Region)
    President

  • Organized academic forums, workshops, and gatherings more than 30 times (e.g., Future Technology Exploration Forum, Golf Workshop, etc).
  • Participated in and assisted with organizing overseas study tours 6 times (fully funded by Lixin Tang Scholarship), visited more than 15 countries and 6 universities (including Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford).
  • One of the casual meeting was reported by French newspaper FranceQW. [Press Coverage]
  • Association for Science and Technology of AA of UESTC
    Technical Committee Member

  • Assisted in organizing more than two electronic design competitions.
  • Served as a Jury Member of electronic design competitions more than 2 times.

  • Talents

    Dance

  • Serving as a member of a girl group called "BingTangXueLi", the group has been invited to perform more than 6 times (e.g., Chinese New Year Gala 2024-Singapore, TEDx-NTU, etc.). Follow us on Xiaohongshu - "bingtangxl_ntu".
  • As a dancer of Chinese Dance Club of NTU, participated in more than 5 concerts (e.g., JDC, NTU Lunar New Year Celebration Concert).
  • Created the Dance & Painting show called "Lan Yu Jing Hong" for the National Day Art Exhibition, and was honored by the Minister Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim with a certificate of appreciation.

  • Chinese Painting

  • Jointly held a painting exhibition that attracted more than 500 visitors, and was reported by Lianhe Zaobao. [Press Coverage]
  • A Painting named "Da Fo Lin Xia" was collected by the Chinese Heritage Centre.
  • Invited to paint at Prime Minister - Lee Hsien Loong’s Chinese New Year Garden Party.