Guoshuai Zhao, Ph.D.
Tenured Associate Professor
School of Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Email: guoshuai.zhao[AT]xjtu.edu.cn, guoshuaizhao[AT]outlook[DOT]com
Research Interests: Information Retrieval & Personalized Recommendation, LLM Security & Applications, Multimodal Understanding & Analysis
Education & Academic Visits
- Ph.D. in Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019 (Advisor: Prof. Xueming Qian)
- Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2019
- Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University (USA), 2017–2018
- Visiting Student Researcher, Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, 2017
Research Profile
Publications:
- 50+ peer-reviewed papers, including 20+ IEEE Transactions papers (e.g., TKDE, TMM, TBD)
- 3 ESI Highly Cited Papers
- Google Scholar Citations: 2400+
Honors & Awards:
- Top Ten Rising Academic Stars, Xi’an Jiaotong University (2020)
- Top Ten Programmers of Xi’an (2020)
- Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program (2019)
- Intel Fellowship (2016)
Academic Services
- Editorial Board Member: Information Processing & Management (IF: 7.4, SCI-indexed)
- Session Chair: WWW 2020 (CCF-A Conference), CoST 2023
- Program Committee Member:
- Conferences: AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, KDD, SIGIR, et al.
- Journals: IEEE TPAMI, TKDE, TIP, TMM, TMC, TCSVT, et al.
Selected Publication
[25]. Jinjin Qian, Chengxu Liu, Yubin Ai, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian: Enhancing Automated Vending Machine Product Recognition Through Depth-Guided Regression Refinement. IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics 21(6): 4565-4575 (2025)
[24]. Xuanming Jiang, Baoyi An, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian: M3Net: Efficient Time-Frequency Integration Network with Mirror Attention for Audio Classification on Edge. AAAI 2025: 17644-17652
[23]. Feng Wu, Guoshuai Zhao, Tengjiao Li, Jialie Shen, Xueming Qian: Improving Conversational Recommendation System Through Personalized Preference Modeling and Knowledge Graph. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 36(12): 8529-8540 (2024)
[22]. Sen Wu, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian: Resolving Zero-Shot and Fact-Based Visual Question Answering via Enhanced Fact Retrieval. IEEE Trans. Multim. 26: 1790-1800 (2024)
[21]. Hao Tang, Guoshuai Zhao, Jing Gao, Xueming Qian: Personalized Representation With Contrastive Loss for Recommendation Systems. IEEE Trans. Multim. 26: 2419-2429 (2024)
[20]. Yuxia Wu, Guoshuai Zhao, Mingdi Li, Zhuocheng Zhang, Xueming Qian: Reason Generation for Point of Interest Recommendation Via a Hierarchical Attention-Based Transformer Model. IEEE Trans. Multim. 26: 5511-5522 (2024)
[19]. Guoshuai Zhao, Xiaolong Zhang, Hao Tang, Jialie Shen, Xueming Qian: Domain-Oriented Knowledge Transfer for Cross-Domain Recommendation. IEEE Trans. Multim. 26: 9539-9550 (2024)
[18]. Junbo Fu, Guoshuai Zhao, Yimin Deng, Yunqi Mi, Xueming Qian: Learning to Paraphrase for Alignment with LLM Preference. EMNLP (Findings) 2024: 2394-2407
[17]. Yimin Deng, Yuxia Wu, Guoshuai Zhao, Li Zhu, Xueming Qian: Pseudo-Label Enhanced Prototypical Contrastive Learning for Uniformed Intent Discovery. EMNLP (Findings) 2024: 7549-7562
[16]. Xuanzhi Zheng, Guoshuai Zhao, Li Zhu, Jihua Zhu, Xueming Qian: What You Like, What I Am: Online Dating Recommendation via Matching Individual Preferences With Features. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 35(5): 5400-5412 (2023)
[15]. Jihua Zhu, Yujiao He, Guoshuai Zhao, Xuxiao Bu, Xueming Qian: Joint Reason Generation and Rating Prediction for Explainable Recommendation. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 35(5): 4940-4953 (2023)[14]. Hao Tang, Guoshuai Zhao, Yuxia Wu, Xueming Qian: Multisample-Based Contrastive Loss for Top-K Recommendation. IEEE Trans. Multim. 25: 339-351 (2023)
[13]. Junmei Hao, Yujie Dun, Guoshuai Zhao, Yuxia Wu, Xueming Qian: Annular-Graph Attention Model for Personalized Sequential Recommendation. IEEE Trans. Multim. 24: 3381-3391 (2022)
[12]. Guoshuai Zhao*, Zhidan Liu, Yulu Chao, Xueming Qian, “CAPER: Context-Aware Personalized Emoji Recommendation,” IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2021, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 3160-3172.
[11]. Qianqian Wang, Jiafeng Cheng, Quanxue Gao, Guoshuai Zhao, Licheng Jiao, “Deep Multi-View Subspace Clustering With Unified and Discriminative Learning.” IEEE Trans. Multim., 2021, vol. 23, pp. 3483-3493.
[10]. Gan Sun, Yang Cong, Yulun Zhang, Guoshuai Zhao, Yun Fu, “Continual Multiview Task Learning via Deep Matrix Factorization,” IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.,2021, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 3139-150.
[9]. Yuxia Wu, Ke Li, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian: Personalized Long- and Short-term Preference Learning for Next POI Recommendation. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 34(4): 1944-1957 (2022)
[8]. Guoshuai Zhao, Hao Fu, Ruihua Song, Tetsuya Sakai, Zhongxia Chen, Xing Xie, Xueming Qian*, “Personalized Reason Generation for Explainable Song Recommendation,” ACM Trans. Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2019, vol. 10, no. 4. pp.41:1-41:21.
[7]. Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian*, Xing Xie, “User-Service Rating Prediction by Exploring Social Users’ Rating Behaviors,” IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2016, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 496-506.
[6]. Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian*, Xiaojiang Lei, and Tao Mei, “Service Quality Evaluation by Exploring Social Users’ Contextual Information,” IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2016, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 3382-3394.
[5]. Guoshuai Zhao, Xiaojiang Lei, Xueming Qian*, and Tao Mei, “Exploring Users’ Internal Influence from Reviews for Social Recommendation,” IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2019, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 771-781.
[4]. Guoshuai Zhao, Tianlei Liu, Huan Wang, Xingsong Hou, Xueming Qian*, and Tao Hou, “Location Recommendation for Enterprises by Multi-Source Urban Big Data Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Services Computing, 2020, vol.13, no. 6, pp. 1115-1127.
[3]. Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian*, and Chen Kang, “Service Rating Prediction by Exploring Social Mobile Users’ Geographic Locations,” IEEE Trans. Big Data, 2017, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 67-78.
[2]. Xueming Qian*, He Feng, Guoshuai Zhao, and Tao Mei, “Personalized Recommendation Combining User Interest and Social Circle,” IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2014, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1487-1502.
[1] Xiaojiang Lei, Xueming Qian*, Guoshuai Zhao, “Rating Prediction based on Social Sentiment from Textual Reviews,” IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2016, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1910-1921.