About Me
I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Computing (SoC), National University of Singapore (NUS). I earned my Ph.D. at SoC, NUS in 2024. Prior to that, I completed my B.Eng. in Computer Science from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2019.
My research focuses on large-scale modeling and data-driven analysis of user behavior, from both technical and applied perspectives.
- Technical perspective: I develop algorithmic and data management methods to handle large-scale computational challenges, spanning big data, massive user networks, and large language models. My focus is on reducing computation and monetary cost while improving overall utility and scalability.
- Application perspective: I study user behavior modeling, including social proximity, influence propagation, and user persona representation. These models support downstream applications such as customer segmentation, community and viral marketing, multi-campaign coordination, and the integration of LLMs into computational advertising.
For more details, please see my CV.
Publications
SCOPE: Cost-Efficient Model Selection for Compound AI Systems under Quality Constraints
Yiqian Huang, Shiqi Zhang*, Tianyuan Jin, and Xiaokui Xiao
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), to appear, 2026