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 (AE) 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

Current graduate students and their research

Name	Research
Xiaoyu Zhou (MPhil student at HKUST-GZ from Fall 2023)	Hyper-parameter optimization (HPO)
Youliang Huang (MPhil student at HKUST-GZ from Fall 2023)	Efficient fine-tuning for LLMs
Zhenya Zheng (Visiting MPhil student at HKUST-GZ from Fall 2023)	Automatic Feature Engineering
Jihang Li (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2023)	Learning operator acceleration with GPUs
Minping Chen (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2023)	Efficient fine-tuning for LLMs
Yile Chen (Visiting PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2023)	Hyper-parameter optimization (HPO)
Yuebin Xu (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2023)	Hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) for LLMs
Xuemei Peng (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Spring 2023)	Efficiency optimization for LLM inference
Tong Yuan (MPhil student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2022)	Privacy Preserving ML
Hanfeng Liu (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2022)	Parallel GBDT training
Jian Yang (PhD student at HKUST-GZ since Fall 2022)	GNN efficiency optimization
Jiantong Jiang (PhD student at UWA since 2021)	Bayesian networks and Bayesian optimization
Peiyu Yang (PhD student at UWA since 2021)	Interpretable artificial intelligence

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 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 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