Haoran Tang

About Me

Hi there, you find me! I am Haoran Tang. I earned two Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). I was jointly supervised by Prof. Qing Li and Prof. Guandong Xu. Prior to that, I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees from Chongqing University (CQU), where I was supervised by A/Prof. Jun Zeng. My research mainly focuses on recommender systems, especially dynamic recommendation. I am also conducting research on temporal graphs. I am open to other areas, such as large language model-driven information systems.

Research Interests

• Recommender System: dynamic recommendation, sequential recommendation, fashion recommendation, fairness, etc.
• Artificial Intelligence: AI-powered applications, AI for interdisciplinary domains, AI-driven prediction models, etc.

News

• [Jun. 2026] 🎉 Our paper “FedLHSSG: A Federated Framework for POI Recommendation Using Local Hypergraph with Shared Spatial Graph” has been accepted by ESWA.
• [Apr. 2026] 🎉 Our paper “C-TRAIL: A Commonsense World Framework for Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving” has been accepted by IEEE TVT.
• [Feb. 2026] 📢 I have successfully passed my PhD defense at PolyU.
• [Dec. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “FedKG: Federated POI Recommendation via Generative Knowledge Distillation against Spatial Heterogeneity” has been accepted by ESWA.
• [Nov. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “AGSRec: Mitigating Popularity Bias via Attraction-Aware Graph and Semantic Enhancement for POI Recommendations” has been accepted by ESWA.
• [Aug. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “FedHGS: A Federated Point-of-Interest Recommendation Method Based on Heterogeneous Graph Semantics” has been accepted by IEEE TSC.
• [May. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “DMSDRec: Dynamic Structure-aware Graph Masked Autoencoder and Spatiotemporal Diffusion for Next-POI Recommendation” has been accepted by IEEE TSC.
• [May. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “DyBooster: Leveraging Large Language Model as Booster for Dynamic Recommendation” has been accepted by ESWA.
• [Apr. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “Educating Language Models as Promoters: Multi-Aspect Instruction Alignment with Self-Augmentation” has been accepted by IEEE TKDE.
• [Apr. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “HGDRec:Next POI Recommendation Based on Hypergraph Neural Network and Diffusion Model” has been accepted by IEEE TSC.
• [Apr. 2025] 📢 I have successfully accomplished the final candidature assessment (CA3) at UTS.
• [Feb. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “Expert-Guided Toxicity Filtration for Debiased Generation” has been accepted by PAKDD’25.
• [Feb. 2025] 🎉 Our paper “Model-agnostic Dual-side Online Fairness Learning for Dynamic Recommendation” has been accepted by IEEE TKDE.
• [Nov. 2024] 🎉 Our paper “Adaptive Depth Enhancement Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection” has been accepted by IEEE SPL.
• [Aug. 2024] 🎉 Our paper “Global and local hypergraph learning method with semantic enhancement for POI recommendation” has been accepted by IPM.
• [Jul. 2024] 🎉 Our paper “TCGC: Temporal Collaboration-Aware Graph Co-Evolution Learning for Dynamic Recommendation” has been accepted by ACM TOIS.
• [May. 2024] 🎉 Our paper “Toward Structure Fairness in Dynamic Graph Embedding: A Trend-aware Dual Debiasing Approach” has been accepted by KDD’24.

Publications

Services

Conference Reviewers

• The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC)
• International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE)
• ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
• The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
• The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• The ACM Web Conference (WWW)
• The International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
• ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)

Journal Reviewers

• Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA)
• Information Processing and Management (IPM)
• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)