Welcome to Zeyi Wen's Homepage

Dr. Zeyi Wen is Assistant Professor at the Data Science and Analytics (DSA) Thrust of Information Hub at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou (HKUST-GZ). Before joining HKUST-GZ, he was Lecturer at The University of Western Australia (UWA), Research Fellow at National University of Singapore and The University of Melbourne after PhD completion at The University of Melbourne. Dr. Wen is a winner of Best Paper Award (1 out of 987) at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 2019, and Best Paper Award Finalist (4 out of 329) at the 50th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2021. His research work has led to open-source ML systems including ThunderGBM Star and ThunderSVM Star. He is an Action Editor of MLOSS section for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).

Machine Learning Systems, Automatic Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing

Current Courses at HKUST-GZ

Past Courses at UWA

There is currently one PhD opening under Zeyi's supervision. Students interested in his research areas can send their applications by email. An application should include a resume with undergraduate (and, if applicable, graduate) transcript(s). HKUST is a young and vigorous university with global ranking of ~30 by QS. The PhD program at HKUST-GZ has the same academic structure with HKUST Clear Water Bay campus, PhD graduate certificate and a highly competitive scholarship.
Current students
- Xuemei Peng (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Spring 2023)
- Hanfeng Liu (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2022)
- Jian Yang (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2022)
- Jiantong Jiang (PhD student at UWA since 2021)
- Peiyu Yang (PhD student at UWA since 2021)

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), 2023
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2023
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2023
The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2023
The IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023
European Conference on ML and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), 2023
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), 2023
The 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2024
2022: KDD, SC, AAAI, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, CVPR, ECCV
2021: KDD, AAAI, SIGIR, WSDM, ICDCS, HiPC (Track Vice-Chair), ICPADS, CCGrid, CLUSTER
HiPC'20, ICDCS'20, ISC'20 (HPC), SBAC-PAD'20, SIGIR'20, ADC'20, CIKM'19, CSS'17