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Name in Chinese
謝浩然
Biography
Prof. XIE Haoran is a Professor and the Person-in-Charge of Division of Artificial Intelligence, the Acting Associate Dean of School of Data Science, and the Director of LEO Dr. David P. Chan Institute of Data Science 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 414 research publications including 239 journal articles (63 papers as first or corresponding author), 7 edited books, 67 book chapters, 96 conference proceedings and 5 patents. Among all 239 journal articles, there are 189 SCI/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 book chapters and 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 7 books, organization committee chairs/members of more than 59 conferences, and reviewers of 40 international journals. Till Sep 2024, his totally Google Scholar citation counts is 18,647, h-index is 55, and i-10 index is 180 at Google Scholar. One of his work about Least squares generative adversarial networks (LSGAN) which has received more than 5500 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 24 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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Exploring ChatGPT-based Augmentation for Contrastive Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
XIE, H. (PI)
1/07/24 → 30/06/25
Project: Grant Research
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Style Is Queen! The Effect of Linguistic Complexity in Content Marketing from an Entropy Perspective (風格就是女王!從熵的視角來檢測語言複雜性對內容營銷的影響)
CUI, G. (PI), XIE, H. (CoI), PENG, L. (CoI) & CHUNG, Y. H. S. (CoI)
Research Grants Council (HKSAR)
1/01/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Grant Research
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Collaborative Translational Metric Learning Based on Interactive Graph Attention Network
XIE, H. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Grant Research
Research output
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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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A Multimodal Contrastive Network with Unbiased Distillation for Knowledge-based VQA
HU, Z., DING, R., XIE, H. & YANG, Z., 2024, 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2024 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks).Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Conference paper (refereed) › Referred Conference Paper › peer-review
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A review of AWE feedback : types, learning outcomes, and implications
FU, Q.-K., ZOU, D., XIE, H. & CHENG, G., 2024, In: Computer Assisted Language Learning. 37, 1/2, p. 179-221 43 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
53 Citations (Scopus)
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, H. (Recipient), Dec 2020
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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CIIS - 2020 IIIC Silver Medal Award
ZOU, D. (Recipient), CHOU, K. L. (Recipient) & XIE, H. (Recipient), Nov 2020
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
Activities
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Least Squares Generative Adversarial Networks: Theories and Applications
XIE, H. (Speaker) & LEE, K. Y. K. (Chair)
30 May 2023Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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The International Conference on Education and Artificial Intelligence 2020 (ICEAI 2020)
XIE, H. (Co-Chair)
2020 → …Activity: Involvement in Scholarly Events › Organize Conferences or other events
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International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (Journal)
XIE, H. (Associate Editor)
May 2020 → …Activity: Editorial / Peer-review Work › Editorial (Journal)
Press/Media
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AI輔助 提升英語學習者寫作能力 English writing enhancement through Artificial intelligence
12/12/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Commentaries
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Lingnan researchers work to integrate AI technology into diverse research areas
5/08/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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嶺大創科系列:嶺大研發新技術改善鐵路測試系統 高效提高列車可靠性與乘客安全 Prof Xie Haoran develops the “Universal AI Interacted Automated Scenario Tester"
31/07/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer