Research Topics

We use advanced data science, machine learning, and AI to tackle complex infrastructure, market, and societal challenges. The portfolio below groups our work into thematic areas so visitors can quickly explore the topics most relevant to them.

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Research Areas

This theme focuses on infrastructure asset management, transport systems, urban operations, and spatio-temporal modeling for real-world services. The research supports monitoring, forecasting, planning, and performance improvement in complex infrastructure environments.

Spatio-Temporal Residual Masked Autoencoder for Urban Rent Estimation

C Huang, B Liang, Z Li, J Wang, F Chen

Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and ...

Year 2025

MLAD: A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Anomaly Detection

K Li, Z Tang, S Liang, Z Li, B Liang

Sensors 25 (13), 4115

Year 2025

Data Analytics for Smart Infrastructure: Asset Management and Network Performance

Y Wang, Z Li, B Liang, H Tian, T Guo, F Chen

CRC Press

Year 2025

Multi-task Deep Learning for Prediction of Kiwifruit Yield in New Zealand with Uncertainty Quantification

J Kan, Z Li, J Zhou, E Webster, A Rootsey, P McHannigan, L Zhang, ...

International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 290-304

Year 2024

USE OF MACHINE LEARNING AND ROBOTIC SENSING TO TARGET RENEWALS IN CONCRETE GRAVITY SEWERS

B Stephen, M Kacprzak, B Li, T Guo, Y Wang, V Viswanathan, ...

OZWater'23

Year 2023

Self-adaptive predictive passenger flow modeling for large-scale railway systems

B Li, T Guo, R Li, Y Wang, AH Gandomi, F Chen

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 10 (16), 14182-14196

Year 2023

Data-driven Delay Analysis with Applications to Railway Networks

B Li, T Guo, Y Wang, F Chen

Advances in Data Science and Analytics : Concept and Paradigm

Year 2023

This area studies graph neural networks, relational reasoning, explainable graph learning, and network-aware recommendation. The work emphasizes structural representation, generalization, and interpretable decision making.

Can GNNs Learn Link Heuristics? a Concise Review and Evaluation of Link Prediction Methods

S Liang, Y Ding, Z Li, B Liang, S Zhang, Y Wang, F Chen

IEEE Transactions on Big Data 12 (1), TBDATA. 2025

Year 2026

Can GNNs learn link heuristics? A concise review and evaluation of link prediction methods

S Liang, Y Ding, Z Li, B Liang, S Zhang, Y Wang, F Chen

IEEE Transactions on Big Data

Year 2025

An Explainable Graph Learning Framework for Severe Maternal Morbidity Prediction

H Lu, Y Lin, R Wu, P Sun, Y Gao, Z Li

Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 335-346

Year 2025

VAGNN: Advancing the Generalization of Graph Neural Networks

S Liang, Y Ding, B Liang, Z Li, S Zhang, Y Wang, F Chen

International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 150-165

Year 2024

Spatio-temporal contrastive learning enhanced gnns for session-based recommendation

Z Wan, X Liu, B Wang, J Qiu, B Li, T Guo, G Chen, Y Wang

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Year 2023

Congcn: Factorized graph convolutional networks for consensus recommendation

B Li, T Guo, X Zhu, Y Wang, F Chen

Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in ...

Year 2023

SGCCL: siamese graph contrastive consensus learning for personalized recommendation

B Li, T Guo, X Zhu, Q Li, Y Wang, F Chen

Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM international conference on web search and ...

Year 2023

This stream studies AI-enabled surveillance of market abuse, shadow trading, and cross-product manipulation. The work combines graph learning, spatio-temporal modeling, and regulatory analytics for modern financial markets.

AI-Driven Financial Market Surveillance of Shadow Insider Trading

B Li, A Stenfors, K Dilshani, A Guo, P Mere, F Chen

Available at SSRN 5722753

Year 2025

Shadow trading detection: A graph-based surveillance approach

T Guo, B Li, A Stenfors, K Hewage, P Mere, F Chen

Finance Research Letters

Year 2025

Identification of Shadow Trading Risks in US Equity Markets via a Spatio-Temporal Graph Attention Network

A Stenfors, B Li, K Dilshanib, T Guo, P Mere, F Chen

5th Annual Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference

Year 2024

A Model to Quantify the Risk of Cross-Product Manipulation: Evidence from the European Government Bond Futures Market

A Stenfors, K Dilshani, A Guo, P Mere

11th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation

Year 2024

Detecting the risk of cross-product manipulation in the EUREX fixed income futures market

A Stenfors, K Dilshani, A Guo, P Mere

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money 92

Year 2024

These projects apply visual learning, representation learning, and world models to infrastructure inspection, energy systems, and Earth observation. The work targets robust perception under limited labels and challenging deployment conditions.

Unsupervised and few-shot segmentation in photovoltaic electroluminescence images for defect detection via a novel enhanced iterative autoencoder with simple implementation

Y Lin, P Sun, R Wu, S Geng, ML Yiu, Z Li, F Chen, Y Gao, M Wang, K Sun, ...

Energy & Environmental Science

Year 2026

Remote Sensing-Oriented World Model

Y Lu, B Wu, Z Li, K Li, C Huang, H Wang, Q Lan, R Chen, L Chen, B Liang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.17808

Year 2025

Few-shot stereo matching with high domain adaptability based on adaptive recursive network

R Wu, M Wang, Z Li, J Zhou, F Chen, X Wang, C Sun

International Journal of Computer Vision 132 (5), 1484-1501

Year 2024

Machine Learning and Computer Vision Applications in Civil Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring

S Liang, A Guo, B Liang, Z Li, Y Ding, Y Wang, F Chen

Infrastructure Robotics: Methodologies, Robotic Systems and Applications, 59-80

Year 2024

This stream investigates fairness, bias mitigation, and trustworthy AI for socially sensitive domains. The goal is to make predictive systems more transparent, equitable, and reliable in practice.

Toward fair medical advice: Addressing and mitigating bias in large language model-based healthcare applications

H Lu, Y Lin, Z Li, ML Yiu, Y Gao, S Uddin

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 103216

Year 2025

Navigating towards fairness with data selection

Y Zhang, Z Li, Y Wang, F Chen, X Fan, F Zhou

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 39 (21), 22632 ...

Year 2025

Fair representation learning with unreliable labels

Y Zhang, F Zhou, Z Li, Y Wang, F Chen

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 4655-4667

Year 2023

Does a Compromise on Fairness Exist in Using AI Models?

J Zhou, Z Li, C Xiao, F Chen

Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 191-204

Year 2022

This category brings together forecasting, optimization, and resilience analysis for power, water, and utility systems. The work emphasizes operational decision support, carbon-aware planning, and resilient service delivery.

A local-temporal convolutional transformer for day-ahead electricity wholesale price forecasting

B Zhang, H Tian, A Berry, AC Roussac

Sustainability 17 (12), 5533

Year 2025

Electrical Network-Related Incident Prediction Based on Weather Factors

H Tian, J Nghiem, F Chen

Advances in Data Science and Analytics: Concepts and Paradigms, 233-245

Year 2023

Optimizing water quality with data analytics and machine learning

B Liang, Z Li, H Tian, S Liang, Y Wang, F Chen

Advances in Data Science and Analytics: Concepts and Paradigms, 39-65

Year 2023

This category covers sequential decision processes, temporal point processes, and interpretable event modeling. It supports better understanding of dynamic systems, workflows, and complex interaction patterns.

An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Semantic-Aware Process Mining

X Su, B Liang, Z Li, Y Dong, J Wang, F Chen

Computers 14 (11), 481

Year 2025

Interpretable transformer hawkes processes: Unveiling complex interactions in social networks

Z Meng, K Wan, Y Huang, Z Li, Y Wang, F Zhou

Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and ...

Year 2024

Transfeat-tpp: An interpretable deep covariate temporal point processes

Z Meng, B Li, X Fan, Z Li, Y Wang, F Chen, F Zhou

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16161

Year 2024

Expert-Guided Model Cultivation: CoTeaching to Resolve Abstruseness and Enhance Learning Performance

S Zhang, F Zhou, Z Li, Y Wang, D Qi, S Li

International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, 18-32

Year 2024