I’m currently a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), supervised by Prof. Sourav S Bhowmick and Prof. Chen Shen-Hsing Annabel. I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Sichuan University in 2022. During my time there, I had the privilege of being involved in cutting-edge research in computational epidemiology under the guidance of Prof. Liu Quanhui.
With a profound interest in interdisciplinary computing research, my current research interests focus on the social psychology-informed design of social search and analytics techniques.
🔥 News
- Apr. 2025 Excited to share that our paper on the experimental analysis of community search algorithms inspired by social psychology has been accepted to SIGIR 2025🎉🎉!
📄 Publications
- May. 2024 Social Psychology Meets Social Computing: State of the Art and Future DirectionsSourav S Bhowmick, Hui Li, S. H. Annabel Chen, Yining Zhao. “Social Psychology Meets Social Computing: State of the Art and Future Directions.” Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024. 2024.
- May. 2022 Quantifying human mixing patterns in Chinese provinces outside Hubei after the 2020 lockdown was lifted Yining Zhao, Samantha O’Dell, Xiaohan Yang, Jingyi Liao, Kexin Yang, Laura Fumanelli, Tao Zhou, Jiancheng Lv, Marco Ajelli & Quan-Hui Liu. Quantifying human mixing patterns in Chinese provinces outside Hubei after the 2020 lockdown was lifted[J]. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022, 22(1): 1-10.
🛠️ Projects
👩🏫 Teaching Assistant
- Data Structures & Algorithms (SC1007/CZ1107/CZ1107), AY2024– 2025-Sem2, NTU
- Multi-disciplinary Design Project (SC2079/CE3004/CZ3004), AY2024– 2025-Sem1, NTU
- Multi-disciplinary Design Project (SC2079/CE3004/CZ3004), AY2023– 2024-Sem2, NTU
- Software Engineering (SC2006/CZ2006/CZ2006), AY2023– 2024-Sem1, NTU
- Multi-disciplinary Design Project (SC2079/CE3004/CZ3004), AY2023– 2024-Sem1, NTU
- Multi-disciplinary Design Project (SC2079/CE3004/CZ3004), AY2022– 2023-Sem2, NTU
📖 Education
- 2022.08 - now, Ph.D. candidate, College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2018.09 - 2022.06, B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, China.