Quanming Yao (姚权铭)

Assistant Professor & Ph.D Advisor

Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

E-mail: qyaoaa [AT] connect.ust.hk / tsinghua.edu.cn

Office: 11-305 Room, Rohm Building, Tsinghua. Beijing, China, 100084 (MAP)

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About Me

Dr. Quanming Yao currently is a tenure-track assistant professor at Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. Before that, he spent three years from a researcher to a senior scientist in 4Paradigm INC, where he set up and led the company's machine learning research team. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and received his bachelor degree at HuaZhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

He is a receipt of Inaugural winner of Intech Prize (Ant Group), Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award (INNS), Forbes 30 Under 30 (China), and Google Fellowship (Google AI).

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Research Focus

My research focus on making machine learning more adaptable, compact and econmic (i.e., parsimony Learning). I wish to develop easy and intuitive methods, which can be used by many others with, perhaps, not much professional knowledge of underneath methods.

Current key words: automated machine learning, few-shot learning, meta-learning, in-context learning, knowledge graph

Please check our perspective paper: "Knowledge-Aware Parsimony Learning".

Recruitment

Various positions at (1). Department of Electrical Engineering Tsinghua University, (2). Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences, (3). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou Campus) are avaliable.
  • Postdoctoral Researchers
  • Full-time Ph.D./ Master Program
  • Research Engineers / Assistants
Details are here: in English, in Chinese, for International Students. Please email me if you are interested in above topics.
  • For undergraduates, you may read this guideline to prepare yourself with our group.

Recent News --- old ones ---   

  • 2024.10: We got new funding support from CCF-Zhipu Funding on LLM project.
  • 2024.10: I will serve as an Tutorial Chair for IJCAI-2025.
  • 2024.09: I was invited as an Area Chair for CPAL-2025.
  • 2024.09: Our paper for "Drug Interaction Prediction" has been accepted to NeruIPS-2024.
  • 2024.09: Elected as Senior member of CCF.
  • 2024.09: Action Editor for "Machine Learning" journal.
  • 2024.09: Identified as "World's Top 2% Scientists" (by Stanford).
  • 2024.09: Inaugural winner of Intech Prize (Ant Group).
  • 2024.08: We got new funding support from CCF-Huawei Funding on Theoretical project.
  • 2024.08: I was invited give a talk at CCF BigData 2024.
  • 2024.08: I was invited as an Area Chair for ICLR-2025.
  • 2024.08: I was invited as a Senior Program Committee for AAAI-2025.
  • 2024.08: I was invited to give a talk at The First International OpenKG Workshop@IJCAI 2024.
  • 2024.07: Elected as Bingkun Zhou (周炳琨) Scholar of our department.
  • 2024.07: We got new funding support from Meituan Inc.
  • 2024.06: We got new funding support from 4Paradigm Inc.
  • 2024.06: Group member Guangyi Liu received "Excellent Graduation Thesis of Tsinghua University".
  • 2024.05: Our works on "Cold-start / Link prediction" have been accepted to KDD-2024.
  • 2024.04: We received Excellent Fund Award (Tsinghua and Tencent Joint Laboratory).
  • 2024.04: Our work on "AutoML for noisy label learning" has accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
  • 2024.04: Group member Guangyi Liu won Special prize on Tsinghua "Challenge Cup" (the only 1 in information track).
  • 2024.04: Our works on AI4Drug are on news of Tsinghua University.
  • 2024.04: Our work on "few-shot molecular property prediction" is accepted to IJCAI-2024.
  • 2024.04: I was invited to give a talk at "Huawei Computing Youth Forum".
  • 2024.04: Our perspective paper on "human-like learning from structured-data" was published in AAAI 2024.