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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 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), Computers & Education: X Reality (Elsevier), Artificial Intelligence in Language Education (Castledown), 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 published a total of 459 research publications, including 275 journal articles (73 papers as first or corresponding author), 7 edited books, 69 book chapters, 102 conference proceedings and 6 patents. Among all 275 journal articles, there are 219 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 Oct 2025, his total Google Scholar citation count is 27,582, h-index is 65, and i-10 index is 227 at Google Scholar. He has been selected in the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University since 2021.
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Educational Technologies
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Large Language Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
XIE, H. (PI)
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Grant Research
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Investigating Pain Perception Through Multimodal Electrophysiological Signatures (通過多模態生物電信號研究疼痛感知)
XIE, H. (PI) & ZHANG, D. (CoPI)
1/07/25 → 30/06/26
Project: Grant Research
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An Integrated Fake Financial News Detection Framework: Knowledge Graph, Large Language Models, Uncertainty Modeling, and Contrastive Learning
XIE, H. (PI)
1/07/25 → 30/06/27
Project: Grant Research
Research output
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AI-Powered Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Personalized Treatment Recommendation for Depression based on Patient Profiles
XU, L., XIE, H., QIN, S. J., WANG, F. L., GURURAJAN, R., ELANGOVAN, S. & SHEN, Y., 1 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 14 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Balancing privacy and performance: An empirical study of machine unlearning in deep learning models
AHMAD, T., TAO, X., YONG, J., SHAIK, T., XIE, H., LI, Y. & ACHARYA, U. R., 1 Mar 2026, In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 167, Part I, 113530.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Efficiently Integrate Large Language Models with visual perception: A survey from the training paradigm perspective
MA, X., XIE, H. & QIN, S. J., Jan 2026, In: Information Fusion. 125, 103419.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus)
Prizes
Activities
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Natural Language Processing Journal (Journal)
TAO, X. (Editor in chief), XIE, H. (Editor in chief) & LI, Z. (Associate Editor)
Jan 2025 → …Activity: Editorial / Peer-review Work › Editorial (Journal)
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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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Array (Journal)
XIE, H. (Associate Editor)
Jun 2020 → …Activity: Editorial / Peer-review Work › Editorial (Journal)
Press/Media
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07/12立法會換屆選舉 珍惜投票權 共建美好香港 Prof Xie Haoran shares his insights on the LegCo election from a data science perspective
5/12/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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把握「十五五」機遇 推動創科發展升級 An article by Prof Xie Haoran, Associate Dean of the School of Data Science and Director of LEO Dr David P. Chan Institute of Data Science
14/11/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Commentaries
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把握“十五五”機遇 推動創科發展升級 On the opportunity presented by the 15th Five-Year Plan to promote development in innovation and technology
14/11/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Commentaries