Jason Xurong Liang is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Queensland, Australia. Prior to his candidacy, he earned a Bachelor of Computer Science degree with first-class honors from the University of Queensland.

Jason is currently working on the research topic of lightweight recommender system, advised by Dr. Rocky Tong Chen and Prof. Hongzhi Yin. Looking at his research interest on a broader scale, he is keen to explore ideas and fun stuff in data mining, recommender systems, and user modeling.

The three main things he often does when he is not hitting the books📖 or sitting in front of a computer👨‍💻 are traveling🏖️, fishing🎣 and watching movies🍿.

📝 Publications

• RecSys 2025 In-context Learning for Addressing User Cold-start in Sequential Movie Recommenders, Xurong Liang, Vu Nguyen, Vuong Le, Paul Albert, Julien Monteil

• TOIS 2025 Lightweight Embeddings with Graph Rewiring for Collaborative Filtering, Xurong Liang, Tong Chen, Wei Yuan, Hongzhi Yin

• SIGIR 2024 Lightweight Embeddings for Graph Collaborative Filtering, Xurong Liang, Tong Chen, Lizhen Cui, Yang Wang, Meng Wang, Hongzhi Yin
• KDD 2024 Hate Speech Detection with Generalizable Target-aware Fairness, Tong Chen, Danny Wang, Xurong Liang, Marten Risius, Gianluca Demartini, Hongzhi Yin
• ICDM 2023 Learning Compact Compositional Embeddings via Regularized Pruning for Recommendation, Xurong Liang, Tong Chen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Jianxin Li, Hongzhi Yin

💼 Internships

• Oct 2024 - May 2025, Applied Scientist Internship, Amazon, Australia. Conducting research on the topic of In-context Learning for Addressing User Cold-start in Sequential Recommenders with the guidance from Dr. Julien Monteil, Dr. Vu Nguyen, Dr. Vuong Le and Dr. Paul Albert.

🎖 Awards

• 2022 Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence — Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons), University of Queensland, Australia. Obtained a grade point average (cGPA) of 6.60 (out of 7.0) or higher in a single semester.
• 2019 - Jul 2021 Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence — Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Queensland, Australia. Obtained a grade point average (cGPA) of 6.60 (out of 7.0) or higher in a single semester.
• 2021 Cloud Computing INFS3208 Best Project Runner-up Award, University of Queensland, Australia. Awarded for outstanding performance in INFS3208 Cloud Computing individual project competition.
• 2020 Prentice Scholar, University of Queensland, Australia. Academic performance sits within the top 5% of the undergraduate Computer Science and Information Technology cohort.
• 2017 Subject Prize Award – Information Processing and Technology, Indooroopilly State High School, Australia. Ranked 1st in the Information Processing and Technology course cohort.

🤑 Scholarships

• 2023 - 2026 Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship
• 2024 Google Research Travel Scholarship
• 2022 UQ International Onshore Merit Scholarship
• 2021 Winter Research Scholarship

📖 Education

• 2023 - now, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• 2022, Undergraduate (Honors), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• 2019 - 2021, Undergraduate, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• 2016 - 2018, Indooroopilly State High School, Brisbane, Australia.

🧑‍🏫 Teaching

• 2022 - now, INFS7901 – Database Principles. Offered in Semester 1 each year. Giving practicals & tutorial sessions weekly and responsible for assignment and exam paper marking.
• 2023 - now, INFS3208/INFS7208 - Cloud Computing. Offered in Semester 2 each year. Giving practicals & tutorial sessions weekly and responsible for assignment and exam paper marking.

More about me…

Wanna get to know more about me? Have a look at my CV 😎.

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