📖 Biography
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Singapore Management University, supervised by Prof. Guansong Pang. I also closely collaborate with Prof. Hanghang Tong. My research interests lie in using deep learning and machine learning to build trustworthy AI systems. Currently, I focus on graph anomaly detection, graph foundation model , and LLM hallucination detection and mitigation. Besides, I also explore related areas such as:
- 🔗 Graph representation learning
- 🚨 Anomaly/Outlier detection (time series, image, video, tabular data)
- 🧠 LLM-based explanation for anomaly detection
- 🔒 Safety and security in foundation models
- 📰 Fake news, image and misinformation detection / Fact-checking /Video Defake
I’m excited to work with colleagues at the Machine Learning & Applications (MaLA) Lab, focusing on abnormal/unknown data instance detection and generalized learning algorithms for creating trustworthy continual AI systems.
Post-doc Searching
- I am expected to graduate in September 2026 and am actively seeking Post-doc positions on LLM/LVLM hallucination detection and mitigation. Feel free to contact me via hezheqiao[at]gmail.com, LinkedIn, or WeChat, if you have any recommendation.
Pin
- 🌐 Our tutorial Deep Learning for Graph Anomaly Detection is accepted to IJCAI 2025.
- 📄 Check out our survey on deep graph anomaly detection: Deep Graph Anomaly Detection: A Survey and New Perspectives and its GitHub repository.
- 📚 We released a GitHub repository summarizing papers on foundation models for anomaly detection: Awesome Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models.
- 🤖 You're welcome to star ⭐ and follow the a GitHub repository summarizing papers on LLM hallucination evaluation benchmark, detection and mitigation: Awesome LLM Hallucination Detection and Mitigation.
News
- [New!] 2025/07: Honored to award the SMU SCIS Dean's List and SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship.
- 2025/06: One survey paper on deep graph anomaly detection is accepted to TKDE.
- 2025/05: The website of coming IJCAI 2025 tutorial Deep Learning for Graph Anomaly Detection is released ! See you in Montreal, Canada!
- 2025/05: One paper on graph foundation model for GAD is accepted to KDD 2025.
- 2025/05: One paper on graph transformer is accepted to ICML 2025.
- 2025/04: Our tutorial Deep Learning for Graph Anomaly Detection is accepted to IJCAI 2025.
- 2025/04: One paper on zero-shot graph anomaly detection is accepted to IJCAI 2025.
- 2025/04: One paper on tiny-model selection is accepted to TMC.
- 2025/03: One paper on multi-label recognition is accepted to ICME 2025 Oral (15% of all submissions)).
- 2025/03: Honored to be a student volunteer for GenAI Workshop at ICLR 2025.
- 2025/02: I will join UIUC iDEA-iSAIL Joint Laboratory as a visiting student in May 2025!
- 2024/10: One paper on time series data imputation accepted to BIBM 2024.
- 2024/09: Survey on deep graph anomaly detection released on arXiv and GitHub.
- 2024/09: One paper on semi-supervised graph anomaly detection accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
- 2024/07: Honored to receive the SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship (2024).
- 2024/05: One paper on normality learning for time series anomaly detection accepted to ECML PKDD 2024.
- 2024/04: Honored to be student volunteer at WebConf 2024, Sentosa, Singapore.
- 2024/02: Our PerCom24 paper "DiTMoS" won the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award!
- 2023/12: One paper on diverse tiny model selection accepted to PerCom 2024.
- 2023/09: One paper on unsupervised graph anomaly detection accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
- 2023/01: Honored to be student volunteer at WSDM 2023, SMU, Singapore.
- 2023/01: Survey paper on deep learning for hate speech detection released on arXiv and GitHub.
- 2022/07: Admitted to SMU-SCIS Ph.D. program with full scholarship, starting January 2023.
- 2022/06: Completed Master's degree and joined SMU SCIS as a Research Engineer.
Honors and Awards
- SMU SCIS Dean's List, 2025
- SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, 2024, 2025
- Mark Weiser Best Paper Award, PerCom 2023
- PhD Full Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Singapore, 2023
- Dean Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2022
- First Prize, Dean Scholarship, Chengdu Branch, CAS, 2021
Experience
- 🌍 2025/5 - 2025/12 : Visiting PhD student at UIUC (Advisor: Prof. Hanghang Tong)
Services
- Program Committee (Selected): ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD
- Journal Reviewer (Selected): IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS
- Teaching Experience: CS425 - Natural Language Communication (Undergraduate), Tutor, Autumn 2024, SMU
- Student Volunteer: WSDM 2023, WebConf 2024, IJCAI 2025, KDD 2025


