Hi, I’m Kesen! Currently a PhD student at the Université de Montréal, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Jianyun Nie. Before I embark on my PhD journay, I received my Master degree at the City University of Hong Kong with distinction under the supervision of Dr. Xiangyu Zhao. Even before that, I finished my Bachelor degree at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. My research interests focus on data mining applications, including recommender systems and dynamic graphs.

Education

• Université de Montréal
  • PhD in Computer Science and Technology
  • Period: 2023.8-Present
  • Supervisor: Jianyun Nie
• City University of Hong Kong
  • MSc in Data Science
  • Period: 2021.08-2022.10
  • Supervisor: Xiangyu Zhao
• University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • BSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
  • Period: 2017.09-2021.06

Publications

• MAE4Rec: Storage-saving Transformer for Sequential Recommendations

  Kesen Zhao, Xiangyu Zhao, Zijian Zhang, Muyang Li

  Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM’ 22)

• User Retention-oriented Recommendation with Decision Transformer

  Kesen Zhao, Lixin Zou, Xiangyu Zhao, Maolin Wang

  Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW’23)

Internships

• Baidu, Beijing, China
  • Department of Search Strategy (Research)
  • Period: 2022.04-2023.1