News


23 Jan 2025
One paper is accepted by ICLR on graph anomaly detection.

26 Sep 2024
One paper is accepted by NeurIPS on Multi-modal LLM.

19 Mar 2024
One paper is accepted by TKDE on graph anomaly detection.

23 Jan 2024
Three papers are accepted by WWW on graph anomaly detection, invariant graph learning, and graph condensation.

22 Sep 2023
One paper is accepted by NeurIPS on graph neural network explanation.

16 Feb 2023
One paper is accepted by ICDE on loan default prediction.

25 Jan 2023
One paper is accepted by WWW on graph anomaly detection.

18 Oct 2022
One paper is accepted by WSDM on graph anomaly detection.

30 Jun 2022
One paper is accepted by FCS on self-supervised rumor detection.

YUAN GAO 

Senior Algorithm Engineer

Alibaba

Lab of Data Science

University of Science and Technology of China

Email: yuangaATmail.ustc.edu.cn

I am currently a senior algorithm engineer at Alibaba. Before that, I got my PhD degree from the USTC Lab for Data Science, supervised by Prof. Xiangnan He and Prof. Xiang Wang. My research interest lies in AI safety, especially in graph anomaly detection and LLM safety alignment. I have multiple publications that appear in top-tier conferences including WSDM, WWW, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICDE and journals including TKDE.

Publication


In the Year of 2025:


pdf
DiffGAD: A Diffusion-based Unsupervised Graph Anomaly Detector
Jinghan Li, Yuan Gao*, Jinda Lu, Junfeng Fang, Congcong Wen, Hui Lin & Xiang Wang
ICLR 2025   
In the Year of 2024:


pdf
Towards neuron attributions in multi-modal large language models
Junfeng Fang, Zac Bi, Ruipeng Wang, Houcheng Jiang, Yuan Gao, Kun Wang, An Zhang, Jie Shi, Xiang Wang & Tat-Seng Chua
NeurIPS 2024   

pdf
Revisiting Attack-caused Structural Distribution Shift in Graph Anomaly Detection
Yuan Gao, Jinghan Li, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Huamin Feng & Yongdong Zhang
TKDE 2024   

pdf
Graph Anomaly Detection with Bi-level Optimization
Yuan Gao, Junfeng Fang, Yongduo Sui, Yangyang Li, Xiang Wang, Huamin Feng & Yongdong Zhang
WWW 2024 (Full, Accept Rate: 20.2%)   

pdf
Invariant Graph Learning for Treatment Effect Estimation from Networked Observational Data
Yongduo Sui, Caizhi Tang, Zhixuan Chu, Junfeng Fang, Yuan Gao, Qing Cui, Longfei Li, Jn Zhou & Xiang Wang
WWW 2024 (Full, Accept Rate: 20.2%)   

pdf
EXGC: Bridging Efficiency and Explainability in Graph Condensation
Junfeng Fang, Xinglin Li, Yongduo Sui, Yuan Gao, Guibin Zhang, Kun Wang, Xiang Wang & Xiangnan He
WWW 2024 (Full, Accept Rate: 20.2%)   
In the Year of 2023:


pdf
Evaluating Post-hoc Explanations for Graph Neural Networks via Robustness Analysis
Junfeng Fang, Wei Liu, Xiang Wang, Zemin Liu, An Zhang, Yuan Gao & Xiangnan He
NeurIPS 2023 (Full Oral, Accept Rate: 26.1%)   

pdf
LightMIRM: Light Meta-learned Invariant Risk Minimization for Trustworthy Loan Default Prediction
Meng Jiang, Yang Zhang, Yuan Gao, Yansong Wang, Fuli Feng & Xiangnan He
ICDE 2023 (Full)   

pdf
Addressing Heterophily in Graph Anomaly Detection: A Perspective of Graph Spectrum
Yuan Gao, Xiang Wang*, Xiangnan He*, Zhenguang Liu, Huamin Feng & Yongdong Zhang
WWW 2023 (Full Oral, Accept Rate: 19.2%)    Codes

pdf
Alleviating Structural Distribution Shift in Graph Anomaly Detection
Yuan Gao, Xiang Wang*, Xiangnan He*, Zhenguang Liu, Huamin Feng & Yongdong Zhang
WSDM 2023 (Full Oral, Accept Rate: 17.8%)    Codes

pdf
Rumor Detection with Self-supervised Learning on Texts and Social Graph
Yuan Gao, Xiang Wang*, Xiangnan He*, Huamin Feng & Yongdong Zhang
Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)

Rewards

KDDCup 2022 Wind Power Forecasting (10/2490)

Experiences

Software Engineer - Machine Learning, Shopee (Singapore), Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

Services

Program committee member and external reviewer:
2022: ECML-PKDD.
2023: SIGIR, KDD, CIKM, ICML, NeurIPS.
2024: WSDM, AAAI, WWW, IJCAI, NeurIPS, KDD.

Education

University of Science and Techonology of China (USTC)
PhD student in Computer Science                   Sep 2020 - Now, Hefei
Advisor: Prof. Xiangnan He and Prof. Xiang Wang
Mentor: Prof. Huamin Feng and Prof. Yongdong Zhang
University of Michigan (Umich)
Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering      Sep 2017 - June 2019, Ann Arbor
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering      Sep 2013 - June 2017, Chengdu
Advisor: Prof. Yang Han

Last update: 6 Feb, 2024. Webpage template borrows from Prof. Xiangnan He.