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Personal profile
Name in Chinese
謝浩然
Biography
Assoc. Prof. XIE Haoran is an Associate Professor and Department Head at Department of Computing and Decision Sciences at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Natural Language Processing Journal (Elsevier), Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and Computers & Education: X Reality (Elsevier), Co-Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge Management and E-Learning (HKU) the Associate Editor of International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer), Array (Elseiver), International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (InderScience). He has totally published 355 research publications including 196 journal articles (60 papers as first or corresponding author), 6 edited books, 63 book chapters, 85 conference proceedings and 5 patents. Among all 196 journal articles, there are 157SCI/SSCI indexed. Some journals like IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TAC, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Multimedia, Information Sciences, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Computers & Education, British Journal of Educational Technology, Educational Technology & Society, Interactive Learning Environments are top-tier journals in the related fields. Among all 63 book chapters and 85 conference proceedings, there are many papers from top-tier conferences like AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, WWW, CIKM, DASFAA, etc. He has served as 19 guest editors in special issues of journals, editors of 6 books, organization committee chairs/members of more than 57 conferences, and reviewers of 40 international journals. Till Oct 2023, his totally Google Scholar citation counts is 13,136, h-index is 44, and i-10 index is 137 at Google Scholar. One of his work about Least squares generative adversarial networks (LSGAN) which has received more than 5000 citations in Google Scholar, published in ICCV 2017 and TPAMI 2019, included by computer science courses of Stanford University and National Taiwan University, and implemented by Google TensorFlow. He has obtained 20 research awards including the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, Research Output Excellence Award by Lingnan University, the Teaching Excellence Award from Lingnan University, Most Cited Article from Elsevier Publisher, Literia Award 2020 (Outstanding Paper) from Emerald Publisher, the Gold Medal and the Special Award from International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada 2022 and 2019, Silver Award from International Innovation and Invention Competition Taiwan 2020, Silver Award from Geneva’s Invention Expo, Silver Award from Multimedia Grand Challenges of ACM Multimedia 2019, Outstanding Research Achievement Award from Asia Pacific Society for Computing and Information Technology, President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research in Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), Faculty’s Research Output Award in EdUHK, and 5 best/excellent paper awards from international conferences including WI-IAT 2020, ICBL 2020, DASFAA 2017, ICBL 2016 and SECOP 2015.
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Educational Technologies
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Medical Text Feature Representations based on Pre-trained Language Models
1/11/23 → 31/10/25
Project: Grant Research
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Contrastive Sentence Representation Learning with Adaptive False Negative Cancellation
1/07/23 → 30/06/24
Project: Grant Research
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A Preliminary Investigation and Evaluation on Sentence Representation Models based on Contrastive Learning
1/01/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Grant Research
Research output
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A bibliometric analysis of the trends, topics, and findings of research publications on asynchronous and synchronous online language learning over three decades
HUANG, X., ZOU, D., CHENG, G., CHEN, X. & XIE, H., 10 Jun 2023, In: Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal. 15, 2, p. 153-173 21 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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A Comparative Study on Linguistic Theories for Modelling EFL Learners : Facilitating Personalized Vocabulary Learning via Task Recommendations
ZOU, D., WANG, M., XIE, H., CHENG, G., WANG, F. L. & LEE, L-K., 2024, Personalized Learning : Approaches, Methods and Practices. CHEUNG, S. K. S., WANG, F. L., KWOK, L. F. & POULOVÁ, P. (eds.). Routledge, p. 91-103 13 p.Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2023 : 22nd International Conference, ICWL 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, November 26-28, 2023, Proceedings
XIE, H. (ed.), LAI, C-L. (ed.), CHEN, W. (ed.), XU, G. (ed.) & POPESCU, E. (ed.), 24 Nov 2023, Springer Singapore. 222 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 14409)Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Book (Editor) › Profession
Prizes
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Best Research Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT '20)
XIE, Haoran (Recipient), Dec 2020
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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British Innovation Award
ZOU, Di (Recipient) & XIE, Haoran (Recipient), 24 Aug 2019
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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CIIS - 2020 IIIC Silver Medal Award
ZOU, Di (Recipient), CHOU, Kee Lee (Recipient) & XIE, Haoran (Recipient), Nov 2020
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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The International Conference on Education and Artificial Intelligence 2020 (ICEAI 2020)
Haoran XIE (Co-Chair)
2020 → …Activity: Involvement in Scholarly Events › Organize Conferences or other events
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PLoS ONE (Journal)
Haoran XIE (Editor)
Jan 2020 → …Activity: Editorial / Peer-review Work › Editorial Membership
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Array (Journal)
Haoran XIE (Associate Editor)
Jun 2020 → …Activity: Editorial / Peer-review Work › Editorial (Journal)
Press/Media
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嶺大研發人工智能優化學生詞彙系統 奪加拿大發明比賽兩獎
26/10/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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