2025

[c5] Text is All You Need: LLM-enhanced Incremental Social Event Detection

Zitai Qiu, Congbo Ma, Jia Wu, Jian Yang

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2025). (CORE A*)

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[c4] Explicit and Implicit Data Augmentation for Social Event Detection

Congbo Ma, Yuxia Wang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Jing Du, Zitai Qiu, Qing Li, Hu Wang, Preslav Nakov

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2025). (CORE A*)

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[c3] Enhanced Social Event Detection through Dynamically Weighted Meta-Paths Modeling

Congbo Ma, Zitai Qiu, Hu Wang, Jing Du, Shan Xue, Jia Wu and Jian Yang

The 34rd ACM Web Conference (WWW'2025). (CORE A*)

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[j2] Hy-DeFake: Hypergraph Neural Networks for Detecting Fake News in Online Social Networks

Xing Su, Jian Yang, Jia Wu, Zitai Qiu

Neural Networks. (JCR Q1)

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2024

[c2] An Efficient Automatic Meta-Path Selection for Social Event Detection via Hyperbolic Space

Zitai Qiu, Congbo Ma, Jia Wu, Jian Yang

The 33rd ACM Web Conference (WWW'2024). (CORE A*)

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[j1] Heterogeneous Social Event Detection via Hyperbolic Graph Representations

Zitai Qiu, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Xing Su, Charu C. Aggarwal

IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD). (JCR Q1)

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[c1] Debunking Fake News in Online Social Networks without Text Analysis

Xing Su, Jian Yang, Jia Wu, Zitai Qiu

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'2024). (CORE A*)

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[i1] Learning To Sample the Meta-Paths for Social Event Detection

Congbo Ma, Hu Wang, Zitai Qiu, Shan Xue, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Preslav Nakov, Quan Z Sheng

arXiv:2411.12588

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Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad (2024 Round)

China Scholarship Council (CSC), 2025

Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund (PGRF) Round 1, 2025

Macquarie University, 2024

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2nd Runner-Up, School of Computing

Macquarie University, 2024

Google PhD Fellowship Nomination

Macquarie University, Google, 2024

Google Conference Scholarships (APAC)

Google Australia Research Programs Team, Google, 2024

Higher Degree Research Rising Star Award

School of Computing, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, 2024

International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (PhD)

Macquarie University, 2023-2026

International Macquarie University Research Excellence Road to Research Scholarship (Master of Research)

Macquarie University, 2022-2023

Dean's List of Students with Excellent Academic Performance

QUT, 2019

Research Intership/Visit

the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP): 2025

Journal Reviewer

Neurocomputing: 2022

Neural Networks: 2022

Conference Reviewer

WWW: 2025

IJCNN: 2022, 2024

Volunteer

48th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2022