Junzhou Zhao works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Professor Xiangliang Zhang at Machine Intelligence and kNowledge Engineering (MINE) Laboratory in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Research Interests

​His research interests mainly focus on large-scale graph/network measurement, mining, and optimization, with a particular interest in online social network applications, a.k.a. the network science.

Selected Publications

• ​Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, Pinghui Wang, and Xiaohong Guan. “IO-Efficient Calculation of H-Group Closeness Centrality over Disk-Resident Graphs”. Information Sciences (IS), 400:105–128, 2017.
• Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, and Xiaohong Guan. “Whom to Follow: Efficient Followee Selection for Cascading Outbreak Detection on Online Social Networks”. Computer Networks (COMNET), 75:544–559, 2014.
• Pinghui Wang, Junzhou Zhao*, Xiangliang Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Jiefeng Cheng, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, Jing Tao, and Xiaohong Guan. MOSS-5: A Fast Method of Approximating Counts of 5-Node Graphlets in Large Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2017.
• Pinghui Wang, Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, and Xiaohong Guan. Unbiased Characterization of Node Pairs over Large Graphs. In ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2014.
• ​Xiaoying Zhang, Junzhou Zhao, and John C.S. Lui. “Modeling the Assimilation-Contrast effects in Online Product Rating Systems: Debiasing and Recommendations”. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2017. (Best Paper Award)
• Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, and Junzhou Zhao. Minfer: A Method of Inferring Motif Statistics from Sampled Edges. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2016.
• Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, Pinghui Wang, and Xiaohong Guan. “A Tale of Three Graphs: Sampling Design on Hybrid Social-Affiliation Networks”. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015.
• Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, and Xiaohong Guan. “Measuring and Maximizing Group Closeness Centrality over Disk-Resident Graphs”. In the sixth Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX, co-located with WWW), 2014. (Best Paper Award)
• Pinghui Wang, Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, and Xiaohong Guan. “Sampling Node Pairs Over Large Graphs”. In proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2013.

Education Profile

• Ph.D., Control Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, 2015
• B.S., Automation Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, 2008 

Professional Memberships

• 2017-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
• 2015-2017: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• ​IEEE Memberx

Awards and Distinctions

• Best Paper Award, ACM RecSys 2017.
• Best Paper Award, WWW SIMPLEX Workshop 2014.