Publications

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Refereed Journal / Magazine / Conference Papers:
(* denotes corresponding author, # denotes co-first author)

  • Min Gao, Qiongzan Ye, Yangbo Gao, Zhenhua Zhang, Yu Chen, Yupeng Li, Shutong Chen, Qingyuan Gong, Xin Wang, Yang Chen*. Fine-Grained Behavioral Modeling with Graph Neural Networks for Financial Identity Theft Detection. To appear: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
  • Mengying Zhou, Shaobin Wang, Qiang Duan, Aaron Yi Ding, Xin Wang*, Yang Chen*. Energy-Aware Collaborative Perception in HetVNETs: Balancing Accuracy and Sustainability. To appear: IEEE Communications Magazine.
  • Yubing Bao, Zhihui Lu, Qiang Duan, Changze Lv, Xin Du, Zeyi Deng, Jingqi Feng, Sen Liu, Yang Chen, Xin Wang. TPipe: Efficient Spiking Transformer Training with Time Parallelism and Asynchronous Pipeline. To appear: Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2026.
  • Dacheng Wen, Yupeng Li, Francis C.M. Lau, Tian Wang, Yang Chen. Near-Optimal Online Learning with Non-Stochastic and Unbounded Erroneous Feedback. To appear: Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2026.
  • Shaojie Min, Yaxiao Luo, Kebing Liu, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*. From Identification to Obfuscation: A Survey of Cross-Network Mapping and Anti-Mapping Methods. To appear: Computers, Materials & Continua, 2026, 86(2):1-23. [PDF]
  • Xinli Hao, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*. Defending Against Topological Information Probing for Online Decentralized Web Services. To appear: Computers, Materials & Continua.
  • Qingyuan Gong, Shaokui Gu, Xin Wang, Junjie Yao, Pan Hui, Jar-Der Luo, Xiaoming Fu, Yang Chen*. DeepHole: Identifying Structural Hole Spanners in Online Social Networks using Behavior Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2025, 12(6):4067-4083. [PDF]
  • Min Gao, Qiang Duan, Boen Liu, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang* and Yang Chen*. Higher-Order Information Matters: A Representation Learning Approach for Social Bot Detection. Proc. of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’25), Seoul, Korea, Nov. 2025. [PDF] (Acceptance ratio: 443/1627=27.23%)
  • Min Gao, Haoran Du, Wen Wen, Qiang Duan, Xin Wang* and Yang Chen*. FediData: A Comprehensive Multi-Modal Fediverse Dataset from Mastodon. Proc. of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’25), Resource Track, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 2025. [PDF|Dataset]
  • Shaokui Gu, Yongjie Yin, Qingyuan Gong, Fenghua Tong, Yipeng Zhou, Qiang Duan and Yang Chen. A Large-Scale Dataset of Interactions Between Weibo Users and Platform-Empowered LLM. Proc. of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’25), Resource Track, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 2025. [PDF|Dataset]
  • Shaojie Min, Jiaxing Shang, Ji Liu, and Yang Chen. Participant-invariant, evolving patterns of influence in dynamic networks. Physical Review E, 2025, 112, L052302. [PDF]
  • Yubing Bao, Zhihui Lu, Qiang Duan, Xin Du, Zhongyu Chen, Yicong Zhao, Xiaoyi Li, Yandan Tan, Shuhan Yang, Ziyi Wang, Yang Chen, Yang Xu. BMapper: A Scalable and Efficient Framework for Brain Simulations Acceleration on Supercomputers. Proc. of the 54rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’25), San Diego, CA, USA, Sep. 2025. [PDF]
  • Yule Liu, Zhiyuan Zhong, Yifan Liao, Zhen Sun, Jingyi Zheng, Jiaheng Wei, Qingyuan Gong, Fenghua Tong, Yang Chen, Yang Zhang, Xinlei He. On the Generalization and Adaptation Ability of Machine-Generated Text Detectors in Academic Writing. Proc. of 2025 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’25), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 2025. [PDF]
  • Shaojie Min, Shaobin Wang, Yaxiao Luo, Qingyuan Gong*, Yang Chen*. Understanding Cross-Platform Links in User Profiles: A Data-Driven Analysis on Mastodon. Proc. of the 10th China National Conference on Big Data and Social Computing (BDSC’25), Kunming, China, Aug. 2025. [PDF] (Most Welcomed Paper Award)
  • Bodian Ye, Min Gao, Xiu-Xiu Zhan, Xinlei He, Zi-Ke Zhang, Qingyuan Gong*, Xin Wang, Yang Chen*. EasyHypergraph: an open-source software for fast and memory-saving analysis and learning of higher-order networks. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, 12:1291. [PDF] (Nature Portfolio).
  • Su-Su Zhang, Chuang Liu, Huijuan Wang, Yang Chen, Xiu-Xiu Zhan. BCIM: Budget and capacity constrained influence maximization in multilayer networks. To appear: Tsinghua Science and Technology. [PDF]
  • Mengying Zhou, Qianyu He, Bruno Abrahao, Xin Wang*, Yang Chen*. Unifying Data Effectiveness Assessment in User Churn Detection: An Indicator-Assisted Framework. To appear: Tsinghua Science and Technology. [PDF]
  • Yongjie Yin, Hui Ruan, Yang Chen, Jiong Chen, Ziyue Li, Xiang Su, Yipeng Zhou, Qingyuan Gong. Prototypical Clustered Federated Learning for Heart Rate Prediction. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2025, 26:1896-1912. [PDF]
  • Chunying Li, Yanxi Guo, Zhikang Tang, Wenbo Li, Yang Chen, Jinli Cao, Yanchun Zhang, Jianjian Jiang. MHGCL: Combining Motif and Homogeneity in graph contrastive learning. World Wide Web, 2025, 28:47. [PDF]
  • Yubing Bao, Zhihui Lu, Xin Du, Qiang Duan, Jirui Yang, Jin Zhao, Geyong Min, Yang Chen, Shijing Hu and Xin Wang. Efficient Joint Communication and Computation Placement for Large-scale SNN Simulation on Supercomputers. Proc. of the 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’25), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Jul. 2025. [PDF]
  • Shaojie Min#, Shaobin Wang#, Yaxiao Luo, Min Gao, Qingyuan Gong*, Yu Xiao, Yang Chen*. FediLive: A Framework for Collecting and Preprocessing Snapshots of Decentralized Online Social Networks. Proc. of the Web Conference (WWW’25), Resource Track, Sydney, Australia, Apr.-May 2025. [PDF|Code]
  • Fenglin Bi, Dongdong Cao, Zhiyu Wang,  Yang Chen, Fangliang Zhao, Tao Hu, Zhi Li, Yanbin Zhang, Wei Wang. RBDQ: A Reliable LLM-based Text-to-SQL System for Business Data Queries. Proc. of the Web Conference (WWW’25), Industry Track, Sydney, Australia, Apr.-May 2025. [PDF]
  • Mengying Zhou, Tiancheng Guo, Yang Chen*, Yupeng Li, Meng Niu, Xin Wang, Pan Hui. Polygon: A QUIC-Based CDN Server Selection System Supporting Multiple Resource Demands. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2024, 32(6):4585-4599. [PDF]
  • Mingtao Ji, Lei Jiao, Yitao Fan, Yang Chen, Zhuzhong Qian, Ji Qi, Gangyi Luo, Baoliu Ye. Online Scheduling of Federated Learning with In-Network Aggregation and Flow Routing. Proc. of IEEE 21st International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON’24), Phoenix, AZ, USA, Dec. 2024. [PDF]
  • Mengying Zhou, Yang Chen*, Shihan Lin, Xin Wang, Bingyang Liu and Aaron Y. Ding. Dissecting the Applicability of HTTP/3 in Content Delivery Networks. Proc. of the 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’24), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, Jul. 2024. [PDF]
  • Jingjing Qu, Liwei Chen, Hui Zou, Hui Hui, Wen Zheng, Jar-Der Luo, Qingyuan Gong, Yuwei Zhang, Tianyu Wen, Yang Chen*. Joint-Sensemaking, Innovation and Communication Management during Crisis: Evidence from the DCT Applications in China. Big Data & Society, 2024, 11(3). [PDF|WeChat(Swarma)]
  • Yushan Liu, Yang Chen*, Jiayun Zhang, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang. Towards an Accurate Mobility Trajectory Recovery Using Contrastive Learning. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2024, 25(11):1479-1496. [PDF|WeChat(FITEE)]
  • Min Gao, Shutong Chen, Yangbo Gao, Zhenhua Zhang, Yu Chen, Yupeng Li, Qiongzan Ye, Xin Wang, Yang Chen*. Detecting Compromised Accounts Caused by Phone Number Recycling on E-Commerce Platforms: Taking Meituan as an Example. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2024, 25(8):1077-1095. [PDF|WeChat(FITEE)]
  • Jiayun Zhang, Qingyuan Gong*, Yang Chen*, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, and Aaron Yi Ding. Understanding Work Rhythms in Software Development and Their Effects on Technical Performance. IET Software, 2024, Volume 2024, Issue 1, Article ID 8846233. [PDF]
  • Kexin Huang, Yan Teng, Yang Chen, Yingchun Wang. From Pixels to Principles: A Decade of Progress and Landscape in Trustworthy Computer Vision. Science and Engineering Ethics, 2024, 30: article number 26. [PDF]
  • Zhiwei Xu, Min Zhou, Xibin Zhao, Yang Chen, Xi Cheng, Hongyu Zhang. xASTNN: Improved Code Representations for Industrial Practice. Proc. of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’23), Industry Track, San Francisco, California, United States, Dec. 2023. [PDF]
  • Min Gao, Zheng Li, Ruichen Li, Chenhao Cui, Xinyuan Chen, Bodian Ye, Yupeng Li, Weiwei Gu, Qingyuan Gong, Xin Wang, Yang Chen*. EasyGraph: A Multifunctional, Cross-Platform and Effective Library for Interdisciplinary Network Analysis. Patterns, 2023, 4(10):100839. (Cell Press) [Paper|Project|Code|WeChat(Cell Press)|WeChat(Swarma)]
  • Qingyuan Gong, Yushan Liu, Jiayun Zhang, Yang Chen*, Qi Li, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Pan Hui. Detecting Malicious Accounts in Online Developer Communities Using Deep Learning. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023, 35(10):10633-10649. [PDF]
  • Atte Oksanen, Anica Cvetkovic, Nalan Akin, Rita Latikka, Jenna Bergdahl, Yang Chen, Nina Savela. Artificial intelligence in fine arts: A systematic review of empirical research. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 2023, 1(2):100004. [PDF]
  • Tiancheng Guo, Yuke Ma, Mengying Zhou, Xin Wang, Jun Wu, Yang Chen*. SocialCache: A Pervasive Social-Aware Caching Strategy for Self-Operated Content Delivery Networks of Online Social Networks. Proc. of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’23), Rome, Italy, May 2023. [PDF]
  • Yuwei Zhang, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Pan Hui, Xiaoming Fu. A Human Mobility Dataset Collected via LBSLab. Data in Brief, 2023, 46:108898. [PDF]
  • Wanda Li, Zhiwei Xu, Yi Sun, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*, Aaron Yi Ding, Xin Wang, Pan Hui. DeepPick: A Deep Learning Approach to Unveil Outstanding Users with Public Attainable Features. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023, 35(1):291-306. [PDF]
  • Qinge Xie, Qingyuan Gong, Xinlei He, Yang Chen*, Xin Wang, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao. Trimming Mobile Applications for Bandwidth-Challenged Networks in Developing Regions. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2023, 22(1):556-573. [PDF]
  • Jiaqi Wu, Bodian Ye, Qingyuan Gong, Atte Oksanen, Cong Li, Jingjing Qu, Felicia F. Tian, Xiang Li, Yang Chen*. Characterizing and Understanding the Development of Social Computing through DBLP: A Data-Driven Analysis. Journal of Social Computing, 2022, 3(4):287-302. [PDF|WeChat]
  • Yupeng Li, Mengjia Xia, Jingpu Duan, Yang Chen. Pricing-based Resource Allocation in Three-Tier Edge Computing for Social Welfare Maximization. Computer Networks, 2022, 217:109311. [PDF]
  • Lijun Yao, Zhiwei Xu, Xudong Zhao, Yang Chen, Liang Liu, Xiaoming Fu, Fazhan Chen. Therapists and Psychotherapy Side Effects: A Machine Learning-based Study. Heliyon, 2022, 8(11):e11821. (Cell Press) [PDF]
  • Ruiyu Fang, Guoliang Han, Xin Wang, Congxiao Bao, Xing Li, Yang Chen*. Speed Up IPv4 Connections via IPv6 Infrastructure. Proc. of 18th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), Guangzhou, China, Dec. 2022. [PDF|Video|Code]
  • Xuebing Li, Yang Chen*, Mengying Zhou, Tiancheng Guo, Chenhao Wang, Yu Xiao, Junjie Wan, and Xin Wang. Artemis: A Latency-Oriented Naming and Routing System. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2022, 33(12):4874-4890. [PDF|Code]
  • Jianxi Zhang, Jinyan Zhu, Tianzheng Meng, Chenfan Zhuang, Yang Chen*. Predicting Upvotes and Downvotes in Location-Based Social Networks Using Machine Learning. Proc. of 7th China National Conference on Big Data and Social Computing (BDSC), Hangzhou, China, Aug. 2022. (Most Welcomed Paper Award) [PDF]
  • Qiongzan Ye, Yangbo Gao, Zhenhua Zhang, Yu Chen, Yupeng Li, Min Gao, Shutong Chen, Xin Wang, Yang Chen*. Modeling Access Environment and Behavior Sequence for Financial Identity Theft Detection in E-Commerce Services. Proc. of 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Padua, Italy, Jul. 2022. [PDF]
  • Qiongzan Ye, Yixin Cao, Yang Chen*, Cong Li, Xiang Li. Deep Learning-Based User Privacy Settings Recommendation in Online Social Networks. Proc. of 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Padua, Italy, Jul. 2022. [PDF]
  • Zihang Lin#, Yuwei Zhang#, Qingyuan Gong*, Yang Chen*, Atte Oksanen, Aaron Yi Ding. Structural Hole Theory in Social Network Analysis: A Review. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2022, 9(3):724-739. [PDF]
  • Jiaxin Tang, Sen Liu, Yang Xu, Zehua Guo, Junjie Zhang, Peixuan Gao, Yang Chen, Xin Wang, H. Jonathan Chao. ABS: Adaptive Buffer Sizing via Augmented Programmability with Machine Learning. Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Virtual Event, May 2022. [PDF]
  • Yang Chen, Bingyang Liu, Lin Cai, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Miguel Rio, Pan Hui. Guest Editorial: New Network Architectures, Protocols, and Algorithms for Time-Sensitive Applications. IEEE Network, 2022, 36(2):6-7. [PDF]
  • Mengying Zhou, Tiancheng Guo, Yang Chen*, Junjie Wan, Xin Wang. Polygon: A QUIC-Based CDN Server Selection System Supporting Multiple Resource Demands. Proc. of the 22nd ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference (Middleware’21), Industry Track, Virtual Event, Canada, Dec. 2021. [PDF]
  • Min Gao, Yang Chen*, Qingyuan Gong, Xin Wang, Pan Hui. Understanding Scholar Social Networks: Taking SCHOLAT as An Example. Proc. of the 16th CCF Chinese Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ChineseCSCW’21), Xiangtan, China, Nov. 2021. [PDF]
  • Xinlei He, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*, Yang Zhang, Xin Wang, Xiaoming Fu. DatingSec: Detecting Malicious Accounts in Dating Apps Using a Content-Based Attention Network. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2021, 18(5):2193-2208. [PDF]
  • Lei Shi, Zhichun Guo, Tao Jiang, Ruiyu Fang, Yang Chen, Ye Zhao, Xiatian Zhang, Min Dai. Visual Analysis of Steady-State Human Mobility in Cities. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, 2021, 11:31. [PDF]
  • Jiaxin Tang, Yang Chen*, Guozhen She, Yang Xu, Kewei Sha, Xin Wang, Yi Wang, Zhenhua Zhang, Pan Hui. Identifying Mis-Configured Author Profiles on Google Scholar Using Deep Learning. Applied Sciences, 2021, 11(15):6912. [PDF]
  • Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*, Xinlei He, Yu Xiao, Pan Hui, Xin Wang, Xiaoming Fu. Cross-Site Prediction on Social Influence for Cold-Start Users in Online Social Networks. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 2021, 15(2):6:1-6:23. (Selected for oral presentation in the Web Conference 2022) [PDF|Slides(WWW’22)]
  • Erzheng Fu#, Yingqiu Zhuang#, Jianxi Zhang, Jiayun Zhang, Yang Chen*. Understanding the User Interactions on GitHub: A Social Network Perspective. Proc. of the IEEE 24th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD’21), Dalian, China, May 2021.[PDF]
  • Jiayun Zhang, Yang Chen*, Qingyuan Gong, Xin Wang, Aaron Yi Ding, Yu Xiao, Pan Hui. Understanding the Working Time of Developers in IT Companies in China and the United States. IEEE Software, 2021, 38(2):96-106. [PDF]
  • Yihan Ma, Hua Sun, Yang Chen*, Jiayun Zhang, Yang Xu, Xin Wang, and Pan Hui. DeepPredict: A Zone Preference Prediction System for Online Lodging Platforms. Journal of Social Computing, 2021, 2(1):52-70. [PDF]
  • Lijun Yao, Xudong Zhao, Zhiwei Xu, Yang Chen, Liang Liu, Qiang Feng and Fazhan Chen. Influencing Factors and Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Side Effects in Psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020, 12:Article 537442. [PDF]
  • Yi Guo, Yushan Liu, Wenjie Ming, Zhongjin Wang, Junming Zhu, Yang Chen, Lijun Yao, Meiping Ding and Chunhong Shen. Distinguishing Focal Cortical Dysplasia from Glioneuronal Tumors in Patients with Epilepsy by Machine Learning. Frontiers in Neurology, 2020, 11:Article 548305. [PDF]
  • Qinge Xie, Tiancheng Guo, Yang Chen*, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang and Ben Y. Zhao. Deep Graph Convolutional Networks for Incident-driven Traffic Speed Prediction. Proc. of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’20), Virtual Event, Ireland, Oct. 2020. (Acceptance ratio: 193/920=20.97%) [PDF|Video]
  • Yang Chen*, Jiyao Hu, Yu Xiao, Xiang Li, Pan Hui. Understanding the User Behavior of Foursquare: a Data-Driven Study on a Global Scale. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2020, 7(4):1019-1032. [PDF]
  • Jia Yan, Lei Shi, Jun Tao, Xiaolong Yu, Zhou Zhuang, Congcong Huang, Rulei Yu, Purui Su, Chaoli Wang, Yang Chen. Visual Analysis of Collective Anomalies Through High-Order Correlation Graph. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2020, 26(7):2517-2534. [PDF]
  • Qingyuan Gong, Jiayun Zhang, Yang Chen*, Qi Li, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Pan Hui. Detecting Malicious Accounts in Online Developer Communities Using Deep Learning. Proc. of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’19), Beijing, China, Nov. 2019. (Acceptance ratio: 202/1031=19.59%) [PDF]
  • Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*, Xiaolong Yu, Chao Xu, Zhichun Guo, Yu Xiao, Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Xin Wang, Pan Hui. Exploring the Power of Social Hub Services. World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWW), 2019, 22(6):2825-2852. [PDF]
  • Rong Xie, Yang Chen*, Shihan Lin, Tianyong Zhang, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang. Understanding Skout Users’ Mobility Patterns on a Global Scale: A Data-Driven Study. World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWW), 2019, 22(6):2655–2673. [PDF]
  • Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Majid Mohammadi, Yang Chen, Bartel Van de Walle. Computational Rumor Detection Without Non-Rumor: A One-Class Classification Approach. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2019, 6(5):830-846. [PDF]
  • Xuebing Li, Bingyang Liu*, Yang Chen*, Yu Xiao, Jiaxin Tang, Xin Wang. Artemis: A Practical Low-latency Naming and Routing System. Proc. of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’19), Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 2019. (Acceptance ratio: 106/405=26.17%) [PDF|Slides]
  • Jingtao Ding, Zhongjin Liu, Shaoran Xiao, Yang Chen, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, Steve Uhlig. Beyond the Click: a First Look at the Role of a Microblogging Platform in the Web Ecosystem. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2019, 16(2):743-754. [PDF]
  • Lijun Yao, Mengting Cai, Yang Chen, Chunhong Shen, Lei Shi, Yi Guo. Prediction of antiepileptic drug treatment outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy by machine learning. Epilepsy & Behavior, 2019, 96:92-97. [PDF]
  • Huandong Wang, Yong Li, Yang Chen, Depeng Jin. Co-Location Social Networks: Linking the Physical World and Cyberspace. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2019, 18(5):1028-1041. [PDF]
  • Chenxi Yang, Yang Chen*, Qingyuan Gong, Xinlei He, Yu Xiao, Yuhuan Huang, Xiaoming Fu. Understanding the Behavioral Differences Between American and German Users: A Data-Driven Study. Big Data Mining and Analytics, 2018, 1(4):284-296. [PDF|Slides|WeChat]
  • Yixiao Xu, Tao Wang, Qi Li, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen, Yong Jiang. A Multi-tab Website Fingerprinting Attack. Proc. of the 2018 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC’18), San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, Dec. 2018. (Acceptance ratio: 60/299=20.06%) [PDF]
  • Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*, Jiyao Hu, Qiang Cao, Pan Hui, Xin Wang. Understanding Cross-site Linking in Online Social Networks. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 2018, 12(4):25:1-25:29. [PDF|Dataset]
  • Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*, Xinlei He, Zhou Zhuang, Tianyi Wang, Hong Huang, Xin Wang, Xiaoming Fu. DeepScan: Exploiting Deep Learning for Malicious Account Detection in Location-Based Social Networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2018, 56(11):21-27. (2018 IF: 10.356) [PDF|Slides]
  • Rong Xie, Yang Chen*, Qinge Xie, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang. We Know Your Preferences in New Cities: Mining and Modeling the Behavior of Travelers. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2018, 56(11):28-35. (2018 IF: 10.356) [PDF]
  • Marius Noreikis, Yu Xiao, Jiyao Hu, Yang Chen. SnapTask: Towards Efficient Visual Crowdsourcing for Indoor Mapping. Proc. of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’18), Vienna, Austria, Jun 2018. (Acceptance ratio: 78/378=20.63%) [PDF]
  • Qian Zhou, Yang Chen*, Chuanhao Ma, Fei Li, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang and Xiaoming Fu. Measurement and Analysis of the Reviews in Airbnb. Proc. of IFIP Networking Conference (Networking’18), Zurich, Switzerland, May 2018. (Acceptance ratio: 55/225=24.44%) [PDF]
  • Shuang Jiang, Dong He, Chenxi Yang, Chenren Xu, Guojie Luo, Yang Chen, Yunlu Liu, Jiangwei Jiang. Accelerating Mobile Applications at the Network Edge with Software-Programmable FPGAs. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’18), Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr. 2018. (Acceptance ratio: 309/1606=19.24%) [PDF]
  • Jun Tao, Lei Shi, Zhou Zhuang, Congcong Huang, Rulei Yu, Purui Su, Chaoli Wang, Yang Chen. Visual Analysis of Collective Anomalies Through High-Order Correlation Graph. Proc. of the 11th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis’18), Kobe, Japan, Apr. 2018. [PDF]
  • Yang Chen*, Jiyao Hu, Hao Zhao, Yu Xiao, Pan Hui. Measurement and Analysis of the Swarm Social Network with Tens of Millions of Nodes.IEEE Access, 2018, 6:4547-4559. (2018 IF: 4.098) [PDF|Dataset]
  • Yang Chen, Shining Wu, Jun Li, Xiaoming Fu. NCShield: Protecting Decentralized, Matrix Factorization-Based Network Coordinate Systems. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2017, 10(2):244-257. (2017 IF: 4.418) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Tianyi Wang, Yang Chen*, Yi Wang, Bolun Wang, Gang Wang, Xing Li, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao. The Power of Comments: Fostering Social Interactions in Microblog Networks. Springer Frontiers of Computer Science, 2016, 10(5): 889-907. (2016 IF: 1.04) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Lei Shi, Sibai Sun, Yuan Xuan, Hanghang Tong, Yue Su, Shuai Ma, Yang Chen. TOPIC: TOward Perfect InfluenCe Graph Summarization. Proc. of 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’16), Helsinki, Finland, May 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 99/400=24.75%) [PDF|Slides|Poster|Bibtex]
  • Yue Huang, Yang Chen*, Qian Zhou, Jin Zhao, Xin Wang. Where Are We Visiting? Measurement and Analysis of Venues in Dianping. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’16), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016. [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Yang Chen*, Yu Chen, Qiang Cao, Xiaowei Yang. PacketCloud: a Cloudlet-based Open Platform for In-network Services. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2016, 27(4):1146-1159. (2016 IF: 4.181) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Cong Ding, Yang Chen, Xiaoming Fu. Crowd Crawling: Towards Collaborative Data Collection for Large-scale Online Social Networks. Proc. of the 1st ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN’13), Boston, USA, Oct. 2013. (Acceptance ratio: 22/138=15.9%) [PDF|Slides|Bibtex|Dataset]
  • Long Jin, Yang Chen, Tianyi Wang, Pan Hui, Athanasios V. Vasilakos. Understanding User Behavior in Online Social Networks: A Survey. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2013, 51(9):144-150. [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Chen Lin, Chun Lin, Jingxuan Li, Dingding Wang, Yang Chen, Tao Li. Generating Event Storyline from Microblogs. Proc. of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’12), Maui, USA, Oct.-Nov., 2012. (Acceptance ratio: 146/1088=13.4%) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Shining Wu,Yang Chen, Xiaoming Fu, Jun Li. NCShield: Securing Decentralized, Matrix Factorization-Based Network Coordinate Systems. Proc. of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS’12), Coimbra, Portugal, Jun. 2012. (Acceptance ratio: 24/110=21.82%) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Cong Ding, Yang Chen, Tianyin Xu, Xiaoming Fu. CloudGPS: A Scalable and ISP-Friendly Server Selection Scheme in Cloud Computing Environments. Proc. of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS’12), Coimbra, Portugal, Jun. 2012. (Acceptance ratio: 24/110=21.82%) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Yang Chen, Xiao Wang, Cong Shi, Eng Keong Lua, Xiaoming Fu, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Phoenix: A Weight-based Network Coordinate System Using Matrix Factorization. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2011, 8(4):334-347. [PDF|Slides|Simulator|Bibtex]
  • Tianyin Xu, Yang Chen, Lei Jiao, Ben Y. Zhao, Pan Hui and Xiaoming Fu. Scaling Microblogging Services with Divergent Traffic Demands. Proc. of The ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware’11), Lisboa, Portugal, December 2011. (Acceptance ratio: 24/125=19.2%) [PDF|Slides|TR|Project(Code, Dataset, etc)|Bibtex]
  • Zhuo Chen, Yang Chen, Yibo Zhu, Cong Ding, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Tarantula: Towards an Accurate Network Coordinate System by Handling Major Portion of TIVs. Proc. of the 54th Annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’11), Houston, USA, Dec. 2011. [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Yang Chen, Peng Sun, Xiaoming Fu, Tianyin Xu. Improving Prediction Accuracy of Matrix Factorization Based Network Coordinate Systems. Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN’10), Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 2010. [PDF|Slides|Bibtex]

Refereed Workshop Papers / Posters / Demos / WiPs:

  • Jiawei Tang, Min Gao, Yu Xiao, Cong Li, Yang Chen*. EGGPU: Enabling Efficient Large-Scale Network Analysis with Consumer-Grade GPUs. Proc. of the Third International Workshop on Social and Metaverse Computing, Sensing and Networking (SocialMeta’24), Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2024. [PDF]
  • Run Huang, Mengying Zhou, Tiancheng Guo, Yang Chen*. Locating CDN Edge Servers with HTTP Responses. Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM’22), Demo Session, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug. 2022. [PDF] (First Place of the undergraduate division in ACM Student Research Competition)
  • Qingyuan Gong, Hui Ruan, Yang Chen*, Xiang Su. CloudyFL: A Cloudlet-Based Federated Learning Framework for Sensing User Behavior Using Wearable Devices. Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning (EMDL’22), co-located with ACM MobiSys 2022, Portland, OR, USA, Jul. 2022. [PDF]
  • Mengying Zhou, Zheng Li, Shihan Lin, Xin Wang, Yang Chen*. FlexHTTP: An Intelligent and Scalable HTTP Version Selection System. Proc. of the 2nd European Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys’22), co-located with ACM EuroSys 2022, Rennes, France, Apr. 2022. [PDF]
  • Xiaoxin He, Yang Chen*. Understanding Structural Hole Spanners in Location-Based Social Networks: A Data-Driven Study. Proc. of the Workshop on Combining Physical and Data-Driven Knowledge in Ubiquitous Computing (CPD’21), co-located with the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp’21), Virtual, USA, Sep. 2021. [PDF]
  • Ruiyu Fang, Guoliang Han, Xin Wang, Congxiao Bao, Xing Li, Yang Chen*. Speeding Up IPv4 Connection via IPv6 Infrastructure. Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM’21), Demo Session, 2021. [PDF|Video]
  • Xiaoxin He, Xiang Su, Yang Chen, Pan Hui. Demo Abstract: Federated Learning on Wearable Devices. Proc. of the 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’20), Demo Session, Virtual Event, Japan, Nov. 2020. [PDF]
  • Qingyuan Gong, Jiayun Zhang, Xin Wang, Yang Chen*. Identifying Structural Hole Spanners in Online Social Networks Using Machine Learning. Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM’19), Poster Session, Beijing, China, Aug. 2019. [PDF]
  • Chenxi Yang, Yang Chen*, Yuan Xuan. Poster Abstract: Sensing People’s Time Management Activities: A Study Using Wearable Devices. Proc. of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’18), Poster Session, Shenzhen, China, Nov. 2018. [PDF]
  • Yue Mao, Zeyu Zhang, Hua Sun, Yang Chen*. Demo Abstract: CitySense: A Data Collection Approach for City Computing Applications. Proc. of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’18), Demo Session, Shenzhen, China, Nov. 2018. [PDF]
  • Shihan Lin, Rong Xie, Yang Chen*, Yu Xiao, Pan Hui. An Empirical Study of the Usage of the Swarm App’s Cross-Site Sharing Feature. Proc. of the Workshop on Mining and Learning from Smartphones Apps for Users (AppLens’18), co-located with the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp’18), Singapore, Oct. 2018. [PDF]
  • Qingyuan Gong, Xinlei He, Qinge Xie, Shihan Lin, Guozhen She, Ruiyu Fang, Rui Han, Yang Chen*, Yu Xiao, Xiaoming Fu, Xin Wang. LBSLab: A User Data Collection System in Mobile Environments. Proc. of the International Workshop on Mobile Human Contributions: Opportunities and Challenges (MHC’18), co-located with the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp’18), Singapore, Oct. 2018. [PDF]
  • Fei Li, Yang Chen*, Rong Xie, Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Anders Lindgren. Understanding Service Integration of Online Social Networks: A Data-Driven Study. Proc. of the International Workshop on Pervasive Flow of Things (PerFoT’18), co-located with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’18), Athens, Greece, Mar. 2018. [PDF]
  • Hao Zhao, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen*, Jingrong Chen, Yong Li, Xiaoming Fu. This Place is Swarming: Using a Mobile Social App to Study Human Traffic in Cities. Proc. of 5th International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer’18), co-located with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’18), Athens, Greece, Mar. 2018. [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Shihan Lin, Rong Xie, Qinge Xie, Hao Zhao, Yang Chen*. Understanding User Activity Patterns of the Swarm App: A Data-Driven Study. Proc. of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp’17), Poster Session, Hawaii, USA, Sep. 2017. [PDF]
  • Yang Chen, Cong Ding, Jiyao Hu, Ruichuan Chen, Pan Hui, Xiaoming Fu. Building and Analyzing a Global Co-Authorship Network Using Google Scholar Data. Proc. of 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017) Companion, 4th WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data (BigScholar 2017), Perth, Australia, Apr. 2017. [PDF|Bibtex|DataSet]
  • Yang Chen, Yuxi Yang, Jiyao Hu, Chenfan Zhuang. Measurement and Analysis of Tips in Foursquare. Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’16), Work-in-Progress (WiP) session, Sydney, Australia, Mar. 2016. [PDF|Bibtex|Code]
  • Yuan Xuan, Yang Chen*, Huiying Li, Pan Hui, Lei Shi. LBSNShield: Malicious Account Detection in Location-Based Social Networks. Proc. of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’16), Interactive Poster Session, San Francisco, California, USA, Feb.-Mar. 2016. [PDF|Bibtex|Code]
  • Francesco Bronzino, Chao Han, Yang Chen, Kiran Nagaraja, Xiaowei Yang, Ivan Seskar, Dipankar Raychaudhuri. In-Network Compute Extensions for Rate-Adaptive Content Delivery in Mobile Networks. Proc. of the International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT’14), co-located with IEEE ICNP 2014, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Oct. 2014. [PDF]
  • Yang Chen, Chenfan Zhuang, Qiang Cao and Pan Hui. Understanding Cross-site Linking in Online Social Networks. Proc. of the 8th ACM Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNA-KDD’14), co-located with ACM SIGKDD 2014, New York City, USA, Aug. 2014. (Acceptance ratio: 6/28=21.4%) [PDF|Slides|Bibtex]
  • Yang Chen, Bingyang Liu, Yu Chen, Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Jun Bi. PacketCloud: an Open Platform for Elastic In-network Services. Proc. of the 8th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch’13), Miami, USA, Oct., 2013. [PDF|Slides|Bibtex]
  • Zhuo Chen, Yang Chen, Cong Ding, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Pomelo: Accurate and Decentralized Shortest-path Distance Prediction in Social Graphs. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2011, 41(4):406-407. (Presented in the Poster session of ACM SIGCOMM 2011, August 2011, acceptance ratio:24/86=27.91%) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Long Jin, Yang Chen, Pan Hui, Cong Ding, Tianyi Wang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Albatross Sampling: Robust and Effective Hybrid Vertex Sampling for Social Graphs. Proc. of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement (HotPlanet’11), co-located with ACM MobiSys 2011, June 2011. [PDF|Project|Bibtex]
  • Tianyi Wang, Yang Chen, Zengbin Zhang, Tianyin Xu, Long Jin, Pan Hui, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Understanding Graph Sampling Algorithms for Social Network Analysis. Proc. of 3rd Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (Simplex’11) , co-located with IEEE ICDCS, Minneapolis, USA, Jun.2011. [PDF]
  • Konglin Zhu, Pan Hui, Yang Chen, Xiaoming Fu, Wenzhong Li. Exploring User Social Behaviors in Mobile Social Applications. Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS’11), co-located with ACM EuroSys 2011, Salzburg, Austria, Apr. 2011. [PDF]
  • Yibo Zhu, Yang Chen, Zengbin Zhang, Xiaoming Fu, Dan Li, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Taming the Triangle Inequality Violations with Network Coordinate System on Real Internet. ACM Workshop on Re-Architecturing the Internet (ReArch 2010), co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2010, Philadelphia, USA, ACM, December 2010. [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Zhuo Chen, Yibo Zhu, Yang Chen, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Reducing TIV Interference in Network Coordinate Systems. Proc. of the 6th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies Student Workshop (CoNEXT’10), Philadelphia, USA, Nov.-Dec. 2010.
  • Tianyin Xu, Yang Chen, Xiaoming Fu, Pan Hui. Twittering by Cuckoo — Decentralized and Socio-Aware Online Microblogging Services. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2010, 40(4): 473-474. (Presented in ACM SIGCOMM 2010 Demo Session, August 2010) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Tianyi Wang, Yang Chen, Zengbin Zhang, Peng Sun, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Unbiased Sampling in Directed Social Graph. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2010, 40(4):401-402. (Presented in ACM SIGCOMM 2010 Poster Session, August 2010, acceptance rate: 22/85=25.88%, won the First Place of the undergraduate division in ACM Student Research Competition) [PDF|Bibtex]
  • Tianyin Xu, Yang Chen, Jin Zhao, Xiaoming Fu. Towards Decentralized, Socio-Aware Online Microblogging Services and Data Measurement. Proc. of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement (HotPlanet’10) co-located with ACM MobiSys’10, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010. [PDF]
  • Yibo Zhu, Yang Chen, Guodong Wang, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. NC-APT: An Efficient and Scalable Download Mirror Selecting System. In Proc. of the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Student Workshop (INFOCOM’10), San Diego, California, Mar. 2010. [PDF]
  • Peng Sun, Yang Chen, Yibo Zhu, Xiaoming Fu, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Dimension Reduction of Network Bottleneck Bandwidth Data Space. In Proc. of the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Student Workshop (INFOCOM’10), San Diego, California, Mar. 2010. [PDF]
  • Yuan Lin, Yang Chen, Guodong Wang, Beixing Deng. Rigel: A Scalable and Lightweight replica selection Service for Replicated Distributed File System. Proc. of the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid’10), Melbourne, Australia, May 2010.
  • Lin Cong, Guohan Lu, Yang Chen, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. What Level of Estimating Accuracy Does TCP Need and Can TCP Achieve. Proc. of the 5th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies Student Workshop (CoNEXT’09), Rome, Italy, Dec. 2009. [PDF|Poster]
  • Peng Sun, Yang Chen, Beixing Deng, Xing Li. Neighbor Selection Based on TIV Severity Sort Model in Vivaldi Network Coordinate System. Poster Session of 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP’09), Princeton, New Jersey, USA, Oct. 2009. [PDF|Poster]

Publications in Chinese (中文论文):

  • 罗诗雨, 李馨蕾, 罗俊韬, 王新, 张国锋, 陈阳*. 基于机器学习的开源软件项目维护状态识别. 软件学报, 2025, 36(11):5082-5101. [PDF]
  • 汤家伟, 刘育杉, 高敏, 宫庆媛, 王新, 陈阳*. Cerberus:基于深度学习的跨网站社交网络机器人检测系统. 智能科学与技术学报, 2024, 6(4):482-494. [PDF]
  • 李学兵, 陈阳*, 周孟莹, 王新. 互联网数据传输协议QUIC研究综述. 计算机研究与发展, 2020, 57(9):1864-1876. [PDF]
  • 陈阳, 宫庆媛, 王新. 再谈Facebook事件与在线社交网络隐私保护. 中国计算机学会通讯, 2018, 14(5):68-71. [PDF]

Click here for my early publications during my PhD study.