By Dr Zhengyi Yang

Journal articles

Jin X; Yang Z; Lin X; Yang S; Qin L; Peng Y, 2021, 'FAST: FPGA-based Subgraph Matching on Massive Graphs', arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10768

Lai L; Qing Z; Yang Z; Jin X; Lai Z; Wang R; Hao K; Lin X; Qin L; Zhang W; others , 2019, 'A Survey and Experimental Analysis of Distributed Subgraph Matching', arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11518

Conference Papers

He H; Yang Z; Tang Y; Chen Z; Wen D; Luo Q; Zhang T, 2027, 'PTIL: Partitioned Tree-Cover Interval Labeling for Restricted-Domain Reachability Queries', in Advances in Database Technology Edbt, pp. 34 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.48786/edbt.2027.04

Huan C; Meng Z; Yang Z; Liu Y; Zhang J; Wang Q; Wang J; Ma S; Wang Z; Zhang M; Gu R; Wang B; Chen G; Tian C, 2026, 'BCCE: Block-Centric GPU Co-Design for Real-Time Range-Top-K Query at Scale', in Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing Hpdc 2026, pp. 249 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3806645.3807585

Zhang T; Zhang R; Yang Z; Gao Y; Cao B; Fan J, 2026, 'CLGNN: A Contrastive Learning-based GNN for Temporal Betweenness Prediction under Extreme Value Imbalance', in Www 2026 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, pp. 1505 - 1516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792709

Liu J; Chen Z; Qiao S; Ju M; Zhang D; Han B; Yu S; Shu X; Wu J; Wen D; Cao X; Liu G; Yang Z, 2026, 'A2RAG: Adaptive Agentic Graph Retrieval for Cost-Aware and Reliable Reasoning', in Proceedings 2026 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops Icdew 2026, pp. 187 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDEW71238.2026.00024

Ding Y; Yan D; Tang X; Lu Z; Zhang W; Sunindijo RY; Wang CC; Yang Z, 2026, 'Building Futures: LLM-Guided Career Pathways for Australia's Construction Graduates', in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing Bigcomp, pp. 433 - 436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigComp68355.2026.00075

Xu S; Li F; Wang X; Yang Z; Lin X, 2026, 'C2TC: A Training-Free Framework for Efficient Tabular Data Condensation', in Proceedings 2026 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Data Engineering Icde 2026, pp. 2725 - 2738, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE65706.2026.00203

Ma Z; Huang W; Wen D; Wang H; Yang Z, 2026, 'Computing Historical k-Core in Parallel', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 18 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-6196-4_2

Yan D; Ding Y; Wang CC; Sunindijo RY; Tang X; Lu Z; Zhang W; Yang Z, 2026, 'Development of a Prototype AI-Driven Career Guidance System for the Australian Construction Industry', in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, pp. 2507 - 2514, http://dx.doi.org/10.22260/ISARC2026/0321

Song S; Shin W; Park K; Italiano GF; Yang Z; Zhang W, 2026, 'Efficient Hypergraph Pattern Matching via Match-and-Filter and Intersection Constraint', in Proceedings 2026 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Data Engineering Icde 2026, pp. 615 - 628, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE65706.2026.00052

Hoang T; Klymenko M; Xu X; Pan S; Ding Y; Tang X; Yang Z; Shi J; Lo D, 2026, 'ESG Reporting Lifecycle Management with Large Language Models and AI Agents', in Proceedings 2026 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion Icsa C 2026, pp. 29 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C68850.2026.00014

Shu X; Ju M; Chen Z; Ding Y; Zhang W; Wen D; Yang Z, 2026, 'ForexAgent: Identifying Trading Strategies in Forex Markets with Large Language Models', in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing Bigcomp, pp. 55 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigComp68355.2026.00019

Xu Z; Cao X; Yang Z, 2026, 'ReaCH-TGN: Contrastive Hop and Time-Aware Temporal Graph Network for Reachability Prediction', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 208 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-6196-4_15

Tao Z; Qiao Z; Chen C; Yang Z; Du L; Sun Q, 2025, 'On the Cross-type Homophily of Heterogeneous Graphs: Understanding and Unleashing', in Cikm 2025 Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 2842 - 2852, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3746252.3761008

Lai L; Luo C; Lou Y; Ju M; Yang Z, 2025, 'Graphy'our Data: Towards End-to-End Modeling, Exploring and Generating Report from Raw Data', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 147 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3722212.3725106

Chen K; Wen D; Wang H; Yang Z; Zhang W; Lin X, 2025, 'Covering K-Cliques in Billion-Scale Graphs', in Www 2025 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, pp. 2299 - 2308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3696410.3714897

Liu B; Wang C; Chen X; Hao Y; Yang Z; Jin Y; Yang Y; Yang W; Zhang W; Zhang W, 2025, 'PhoebeDB: A Disk-Based RDBMS Kernel for High-Performance and Cost-Effective OLTP', in Advances in Database Technology Edbt, pp. 996 - 1004, http://dx.doi.org/10.48786/edbt.2025.82

Ukey N; Zhang G; Yang Z; Wang X; Li B; Saydam S; Zhang W, 2025, 'A Cluster-Based Approach to kNN Join Over Batch-Dynamic High-Dimensional Data', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 81 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0814-0_6

He H; Yang Z; Wen D; Zhang W; Yu M; Yang W; Zhang W, 2025, 'A Survey on Efficient Graph Reachability Queries', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 58 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8295-9_4

Chen Z; Chen K; Wen D; Yang Z; Li W; Zhang Y, 2025, 'Accelerating Shortest Path Counting on Road Networks', in Proceedings International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 3508 - 3521, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE65448.2025.00262

Ding Y; Lin H; Yang Z; Wen D; Wang X; Zhang W, 2025, 'An Experimental Comparison of RDF Systems on Cloud', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 30 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1242-0_3

Li X; Yang Z; Hao K; Shu X; Cao X; Zhang W, 2025, 'Distributed Hop-Constrained s-t Simple Path Enumeration in Labelled Graphs', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 265 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1242-0_20

Xu Z; Yang Z; Chen X; He H; Cao X, 2025, 'Efficient Answering of k-Reachability on Temporal Bipartite Graphs', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 224 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1242-0_17

Chen L; Hu Y; Yang Z; Zhou X; Zhang W; Li K, 2025, 'Efficient Partition-based Approaches for Diversified Top-K Subgraph Matching', in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, pp. 698 - 712, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3785297.3785310

Li X; Wu Y; Wang X; Yang Z; Zhang W; Zhang Y, 2025, 'Keyword-Based Betweenness Centrality Maximization in Attributed Graphs', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 209 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1242-0_16

Han Y; Chen L; Wang H; Chen Z; Zhang Y; Yang C; Hao K; Yang Z, 2025, 'Learning from the Past: Adaptive Parallelism Tuning for Stream Processing Systems', in Proceedings International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 3535 - 3548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE65448.2025.00264

Luo Q; Zhang W; Yang Z; Wen D; Wang X; Yu D; Lin X, 2024, 'Hierarchical Structure Construction on Hypergraphs', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings, pp. 1597 - 1606, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679765

Yan D; Sunindijo R; Wang C; Yang Z, 2024, 'COMPARING THE CAREER PATHS OF MALE AND FEMALE MANAGERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: INSIGHTS FROM LINKEDIN DATA', in Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2024 - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, London, UK,, pp. 247 - 256, presented at 40th Annual ARCOM Conference, London, UK,, 02 September 2024 - 04 September 2024, https://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/1c4a060eab6e32fb9bf2c36acbd6093c.pdf

Zhang T; Gao Y; Zhao J; Chen L; Jin L; Yang Z; Cao B; Fan J, 2024, 'Efficient Exact and Approximate Betweenness Centrality Computation for Temporal Graphs', in Www 2024 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, pp. 2395 - 2406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645438

Zhang T; Fang J; Yang Z; Cao B; Fan J, 2024, 'TATKC: A Temporal Graph Neural Network for Fast Approximate Temporal Katz Centrality Ranking', in Www 2024 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, pp. 527 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645432

Zhang W; Yang Z; Wen D; Wang X, 2023, 'Efficient Distributed Core Graph Decomposition', in IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops Icdmw, pp. 1023 - 1031, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW60847.2023.00135

Yang Z; Zhang W; Lin X; Zhang Y; Li S, 2023, 'HGMatch: A Match-by-Hyperedge Approach for Subgraph Matching on Hypergraphs', in Proceedings International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 2063 - 2076, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE55515.2023.00160

Ukey N; Yang Z; Zhang G; Liu B; Li B; Zhang W, 2022, 'Efficient kNN Join over Dynamic High-Dimensional Data', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 63 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15512-3_5

Li X; Hao K; Yang Z; Cao X; Zhang W; Yuan L; Lin X, 2022, 'Hop-Constrained s-t Simple Path Enumeration in Billion-Scale Labelled Graphs', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 49 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20891-1_5

Li X; Hao K; Yang Z; Cao X; Zhang W, 2022, 'Hop-Constrained s-t Simple Path Enumeration in Large Uncertain Graphs', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 115 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15512-3_9

Yang Z; Lai L; Lin X; Hao K; Zhang W, 2021, 'HUGE: An Efficient and Scalable Subgraph Enumeration System', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Virtual Event China, pp. 2049 - 2062, presented at SIGMOD/PODS '21: International Conference on Management of Data, Virtual Event China, 20 June 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3448016.3457237

Wang R; Yang Z; Zhang W; Lin X, 2020, 'An empirical study on recent graph database systems', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 328 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55130-8_29

Hao K; Lai Z; Yang Z; Jin X; Lai L; Lin X, 2019, 'PatMat: A distributed pattern matching engine with Cypher', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings, pp. 2921 - 2924, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3357384.3357840

Lai Z; Yang Z; Lai L, 2019, 'Improving distribued subgraph matching algorithm on timely dataflow', in Proceedings 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops Icdew 2019, pp. 266 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDEW.2019.000-2

Lai L; Qing Z; Yang Z; Jin X; Lai Z; Wang R; Hao K; Lin X; Qin L; Zhang W; Zhang Y; Qian Z; Zhou J, 2019, 'Distributed Subgraph Matching on Timely Dataflow', in Proc. VLDB Endow., VLDB Endowment, pp. 1099–1112 - 1099–1112, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3339490.3339494

Conference Proceedings (Editor of)

Zhang W; Tung A; Zheng Z; Yang Z; Wang X; Guo H, (eds.), 2024, 'Web and Big Data - 8th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2024, Jinhua, China, August 30 - September 1, 2024, Proceedings, Part I', presented at APWeb-WAIM 2024, 30 August 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7232-2

Zhang W; Tung A; Zheng Z; Yang Z; Wang X; Guo H, (eds.), 2024, 'Web and Big Data - 8th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2024, Jinhua, China, August 30 - September 1, 2024, Proceedings, Part II', presented at APWeb-WAIM 2024, 30 August 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7235-3

Zhang W; Tung A; Zheng Z; Yang Z; Wang X; Guo H, (eds.), 2024, 'Web and Big Data - 8th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2024, Jinhua, China, August 30 - September 1, 2024, Proceedings, Part III', presented at APWeb-WAIM 2024, 30 August 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7238-4

Zhang W; Tung A; Zheng Z; Yang Z; Wang X; Guo H, (eds.), 2024, 'Web and Big Data - 8th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2024, Jinhua, China, August 30 - September 1, 2024, Proceedings, Part IV', presented at APWeb-WAIM 2024, 30 August 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7241-4

Zhang W; Tung A; Zheng Z; Yang Z; Wang X; Guo H, (eds.), 2024, 'Web and Big Data - 8th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2024, Jinhua, China, August 30 - September 1, 2024, Proceedings, Part V', presented at APWeb-WAIM 2024, 30 August 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7244-5

Preprints

Yang Z; Yang W; Liu G; Qin L, 2026, RAIDS: Rethinking Data Systems as Responsible Intelligent Infrastructure, https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21831v1

Hoang T; Klymenko M; Xu X; Pan S; Ding Y; Tang X; Yang Z; Shi J; Lo D, 2026, ESG Reporting Lifecycle Management with Large Language Models and AI Agents, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2603.10646

Liu J; Chen Z; Qiao S; Ju M; Zhang D; Han B; Yu S; Shu X; Wu J; Wen D; Cao X; Liu G; Yang Z, 2026, A2RAG: Adaptive Agentic Graph Retrieval for Cost-Aware and Reliable Reasoning, https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21162v2

Fang Y; Hu X; Tang Y; Wallis M; Yang Z, 2026, Do Language Models Know Who Fails? Look-Ahead Bias in LLM Credit-Risk Assessment, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7429342

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