Principal Investigators

Sun Zhu (孙竹)

Sun Zhu (孙竹)

Assistant Professor (ISTD, SUTD)

Current Students/Researchers

Darren Chai Xin Lun

Darren Chai Xin Lun

PhD Student

SUTD

Lingfeng Huang

Lingfeng Huang

PhD Student

SUTD

Kunrong Li

Kunrong Li

PhD Student

SUTD

Lee Yueh Ern Shannon

Lee Yueh Ern Shannon

PhD Student

SUTD

Yongyi Zhang

Yongyi Zhang

Co-PhD Student

SUTD

Muvil Kothari

Muvil Kothari

STEP Masters Student

SUTD

Kaidong Feng

Kaidong Feng

Research Assistant

SUTD

Li Zhou

Li Zhou

Visiting Professor

Southwest Univ.

Han Zhou

Han Zhou

Visiting PhD Student

Shanghai Univ. of Finance and Economics.

Huigui Yan

Huigui Yan

Visiting PhD Student

Yanshan Univ.

Mao Li

Mao Li

Visiting PhD Student

Beihang Univ.

Zhuoxuan Huang

Zhuoxuan Huang

Visiting PhD Student

Central South Univ.

Samal Mukhtar

Samal Mukhtar

Co-PhD Student

Univ. of Manchester

Hongyang Liu

Hongyang Liu

Co-PhD Student

Macquarie Univ.

Max Xiao

Max Xiao

Co-Master Student

Macquarie Univ.

Collaborating Researchers

Yingpeng Du

Yingpeng Du

Postdoc

Nanyang Technological Univ.

Tianjun Wei

Tianjun Wei

Postdoc

Nanyang Technological Univ.

Huizhong Guo

Huizhong Guo

Postdoc

Nanyang Technological Univ.

Former Students/Researchers

NameGraduation YearTopicTo
Huizhong Guo2025/10-2026/04Item Fairness in Dynamic Recommender SystemsResearch Fellow, NTU, SG
Yu Lei (Visiting PhD, YSU, China)02/2026LLMs for Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation-
Zongqian Wu (Visiting PhD, UESTC, China)07/2025-09/2025Improving LLMs through Test Time Scaling-
Jiajie Zhu (PhD, MQ, Australia)2025Cross Domain Recommender SystemsResearch Fellow, MQ, AU
Youchen Sun (PhD, NTU, Singapore)2025Leveraging Social Networks for Robust RecommendationResearch Scientist, Tiktok, SG
Yatong Sun (PhD, MQ, Australia)2024Eliminating Unreliable Data for More Robust Sequential RecommendationDistinguished Associate Research Fellow, NEU, CN
Syed M Zaheen (Intern, NTU, Singapore)06/2023-08/2023DaisyRec: Towards Reliable Recommender SystemsEngineer (AI Product), HTX, SG
Zhang Jixiao (Intern, SUSTech, China)03/2023-08/2023Explainable Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation with Neural-Symbolic Reasoning-
Jinze Wang (Master, MQ, Australia)2021Meta-learning Enhanced Next POI Recommendation by Leveraging Check-ins from Auxiliary CitiesPhD, SUT, AU
Meshari Algethami (Undergraduate, MQ, Australia)2021User Co-consumption Behavior Mining for Explainable Bundle Recommender SystemsAssociate Technical Support Engineer, Pegasystems, AU
Joshua Dodanduwa (Undergraduate, MQ, Australia)2021Incorporating Music Theory in Music Playlist GenerationSoftware Engineer, Commonwealth Bank, AU
Yefan Li (Undergraduate, MQ, Australia)2021Personalized Bundle Recommendation SystemsSoftware Engineer, Pharmx, AU
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