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 (2025 QS World University Rankings 77), Research Fellow at National University of Singapore and The University of Melbourne after PhD completion at The University of Melbourne. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree from South China University of Technology. Dr. Wen was a winner of Best Paper Award at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 2019. His research work has led to open-source ML systems including ThunderGBM Star and ThunderSVM Star. He is an Action Editor (AE) of MLOSS section for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).

Aug 2025: Two papers accepted by EMNLP'25 main track, and three papers accepted by CIKM'25.
Jun 2025: Three papers accepted by ICPP'25, ACM TKDD, and Pattern Recognition (PR), respectively.
Jan 2025: A paper on small language models was accepted by NAACL'25.
Dec 2024: Two papers on LLM inference and fine-tuning got accepted by AAAI'25.
Nov 2024: Our paper on GBDTs for High Dimensional Data was accepted by KDD'25.
Jun 2024: Our paper on Bayesian Network Learning was accepted by IEEE TPDS.
May 2024: Our paper on PGM inference acceleration was accepted by USENIX ATC'24.

Large Language Model Inference/Training/Fine-Tuning Acceleration
Machine Learning Systems, Automatic Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing

Current Courses at HKUST-GZ

Past Courses at UWA

2026: AAAI, KDD, SC, BigData
2025: SC, NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, ICLR, ICPP, ICDE, AAAI, ACL ARR, CIKM, DASFAA (demo track co-chair)
2024: KDD, NeurIPS, AAAI, CIKM, EDBT, EMNLP
2023: KDD, SC, AAAI, CIKM, WSDM, SIGIR, ECML-PKDD, CCGrid
2022: KDD, SC, AAAI, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, CVPR, ECCV