Zezhong Ding (丁泽中)
✉️ Email: zezhongding AT mail DOT ustc DOT edu DOT cn
🏫 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
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Zezhong is a Ph.D. candidate (successive master-doctor program since 2022) in Data Darkness Lab (DDL), School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), supervised by Prof. Xike Xie. He was a research assistant at Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, from Nov. 2024 to Feb. 2025, working with Prof. Jianliang Xu. He received his B.Eng. (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Technology from Ocean University of China in 2022. He has published several research papers in prestigious conferences such as ACM SIGMOD. His general research interests mainly focus on the data management algorithms and machine learning systems over big data, particularly big graph data.
📌 Welcome to contact me for any discussion!😊
Research Interests
- Data Management Algorithms
- 🎯Distributed Computing: How to Partition Big Data for Distributed Computing?
- [S5P, SIGMOD-24]: Streaming Skewness-aware Graph Partitioner
- [ClusPar, TC-25]: Streaming Game-Theoretic Graph Partitioner (Journal Extension of [CLUGP, ICDE-22])
- 🎯Large Language Models (LLMs): How to Manage Big Graph Data for Enhancing LLMs' ability to understand graphs?
- [GraphInsight, ACL-25]: LLM (w/ RAG) for Graph Structure Understanding
- 🎯Graph Foundation Models (GFMs): How to Design Scalable and Efficient GFMs to enhance the Performance and Capabilities of Graph-Related Applications?
- Machine Learning Systems
- 🎯Out-of-Core Graph Machine Learining Systems: How to Overcome Memory Bound Challenges for Big Graph Data?
- [Capsule, SIGMOD-25]: Out-of-Core Graph Training Mechanism
- [SWIFT, SIGMOD-26]: Enabling Large-Scale Temporal Graph Learning on a Single Machine
News
- 2025/6/26 I give my second conference talk on SIGMOD 2025 in Berlin, Germany!
- 2025/5/23 One paper is accepted by SIGMOD 2026 (Bengaluru, India)!
- 2025/5/16 One paper is accepted by ACL 2025 (Main Conference)!
- 2025/2/10 I have completed my three-month visit at HKBU DB Group! Best wishes for the HKBU DB Group!
- 2024/11/1 One paper is accepted by SIGMOD 2025! Next station is Berlin, Germany!
- 2024/9/30 One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers (My first journal paper)!
- 2024/6/13 I give my first conference talk on SIGMOD 2024 in Santiago, Chile!
- 2024/3/30 Data Darkness Lab is recruiting graduate students, USTC! Inquiries Welcome!
- 2024/2/23 One paper is accepted by SIGMOD 2024 (My first conference paper)! Looking forward to the conference in Santiago, Chile!
Selected Publications
You can find the full list of my publications here, my DBLP entry here and my Google Scholar entry here.- 📄[SIGMOD-26] Rui Guo1, Zezhong Ding1, Xike Xie*, Jianliang Xu, SWIFT: Enabling Large-Scale Temporal Graph Learning on a Single Machine, Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, 2026. (PDF)(Source Code)
- 📄[SIGMOD-25] Yongan Xiang1, Zezhong Ding1, Rui Guo, Shangyou Wang, Xike Xie*, S. Kevin Zhou, Capsule: an Out-of-Core Training Mechanism for Colossal GNNs, Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data 3 (1), 2025. (PDF)(Source Code)(Source Code)(Slides)(Press Release)
- 📄[TC-25] Zezhong Ding1, Deyu Kong1, Zhuoxu Zhang, Xike Xie*, Jianliang Xu, ClusPar: A Game-Theoretic Approach for Efficient and Scalable Streaming Edge Partitioning, IEEE Transactions on Computers 74 (1), 2025. (PDF)(Source Code)
- 📄[SIGMOD-24] Zezhong Ding, Yongan Xiang, Shangyou Wang, Xike Xie*, S. Kevin Zhou, Play like a Vertex: A Stackelberg Game Approach for Streaming Graph Partitioning, Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data 2 (3), 2024. (PDF)(Source Code)(Slides)(Press Release)
Selected Awards
- National Scholarship (China) (three times, in 2019, 2021, and 2024)
- Gold Medal in International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (2021)
- Finalist (Nomination for Grand Prize) in MCM (USA) (Top 1%, 2021)
Academic Services
I am/was a program committee member/reviewer for the following conferences/journals:- SIGMOD 2025 (ARI), TKDD 2024, NeurIPS 2024,ICDE 2024|2025,SIGIR 2022
Hobbies
Basketball🏀, Soccer ⚽️, Moive 🎬, Singing 🎤, Games 🎮, Snooker 🎱, Swimming 🏊Love: Ariel@Amsterdam