Xin Zhang

Xin Zhang

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

San Diego State University

Biography

Xin Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at San Diego State University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Data Sciences from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2023. Her main research focuses are on artificial intelligence (AI) and spatial-temporal data mining with applications in smart cities and urban intelligence. Particularly, she is interested in: (1) human behavior analysis, decision making and embodied AI using deep learning approaches, and (2) spatial-temporal data mining with novel AI techniques for urban computing and smart cities. Her works appear in NeurIPS, KDD, ICDM, etc.

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Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Spatial-temporal Data Mining
  • Applications in Smart Cities and Urban Intelligence
Education
  • Ph.D. in Data Sciences, 2023

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • M.S. in Data Sciences, 2019

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • B.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2017

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recent News

  • [Paper] 09/2024: One paper was accepted by ICDM 2024.
  • [TPC] 06/2024: Served as Technical Program Committee for ICLR, AISTATS 2025.
  • [Paper] 06/2024: One paper was accepted by KDD 2024.
  • [TPC] 01/2024: Served as Technical Program Committee for IEEE MASS 2024.
  • [Paper] 12/2023: One paper was accepted by SDM 2024.
  • [Talk] 12/2023: Invited talk at Ocean University of China.
  • [Talk] 10/2023: Invited talk at CSRC Colloquium at SDSU.
  • [Paper] 09/2023: Three papers were accepted by ICDM 2023.
  • [TPC] 09/2023: Served as Program Committee for SDM 2024 & ICLR 2024.
  • [Paper] 05/2023: One paper was accepted by KDD 2023.
  • [Award] 04/2023: Awarded the SDM 2023 Doctoral Forum travel award.
  • [TPC] 03/2023: Served as Technical Program Committee for NeurIPS 2023.
  • [TPC] 01/2023: Served as Technical Program Committee for KDD 2023.
  • [Paper] 12/2022: One paper was accepted by SDM 2023.
  • [TPC] 12/2022: Serve as Technical Program Committee for ICML 2023.
  • [Paper] 10/2022: One paper was accepted by WACV 2023.
  • [TPC] 03/2022: Served as Technical Program Committee for NeurIPS 2022.
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Publications

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(2024). Align Along Time and Space: A Graph Latent Diffusion Model for Traffic Dynamics Prediction. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 9-12 December 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE. (Acceptance rate = 19.5%).

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(2024). Urban-Focused Multi-Task Offline Reinforcement Learning with Contrastive Data Sharing. the 30th SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

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(2023). CAC: Enabling Customer-Centered Passenger-Seeking for Self-Driving Ride Service with Conservative Actor-Critic. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

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(2023). Distributional Cloning for Stabilized Imitation Learning via ADMM. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

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(2023). Self-supervised Pre-training for Robust and Generic Spatial-Temporal Representations. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

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(2023). Only Attending What Matter within Trajectories -- Memory-Efficient Trajectory Attention. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24).

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(2023). Domain Disentangled Meta-Learning. Proceedings of the 2023 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).

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(2023). Learning Lightweight Neural Networks via Channel-Split Recurrent Convolution. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision.

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(2023). ST-iFGSM: Enhancing Robustness of Human Mobility Signature Identification Model via Spatial-Temporal Iterative FGSM. the 29th SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023).

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(2021). DAC-ML: domain adaptable continuous meta-learning for urban dynamics prediction. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

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(2021). Imitation Learning From Inconcurrent Multi-Agent Interactions. 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).

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(2021). Learning Decision Making Strategies of Non-experts: A NEXT-GAIL Model for Taxi Drivers. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems.

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(2020). cGAIL: Conditional Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning—an Application in Taxi Drivers’ Strategy Learning. IEEE transactions on big data.

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(2020). f-GAIL: Learning f-divergence for generative adversarial imitation learning. Advances in neural information processing systems.

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(2020). TrajGAIL: Trajectory generative adversarial imitation learning for long-term decision analysis. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

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(2019). Unveiling taxi drivers' strategies via cGAIL: Conditional generative adversarial imitation learning. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

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Students

  • Ibisia Jack (MS Student) - Now a PhD Candidate at SDSU

Teaching

  • CS549 Machine Learning.
  • CS696 Reinforcement Learning.

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