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
- Aug. 2025 Glad to share that our narrative review on cohesion in social psychology and social computing has appeared in IEEE TCDE Data Engineering Bulletin. 🎉🎉!
📄 Publications
- July. 2025 How Cohesive Are Community Search Results on Online Social Networks?: An Experimental Evaluation Yining Zhao, Sourav S Bhowmick, Nastassja L. Fischer, SH Annabel Chen. In ACM SIGIR, Padova, Italy, July 2025.
- June. 2025 A Tale of Two Cohesion: A Review of Group Cohesion in Social Psychology and Social Computing Yining Zhao, Sourav S Bhowmick, Nastassja L. Fischer, SH Annabel Chen. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 49(2), June 2025.
- May. 2024 Social Psychology Meets Social Computing: State of the Art and Future Directions Sourav S Bhowmick, Hui Li, S. H. Annabel Chen, Yining Zhao. In The ACM Web Conference, Singapore, May 2024 (Tutorial).
- 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. In BMC Infectious Diseases, May 2022.
🛠️ Projects
👩🏫 Teaching
- Guest Tutorial Instructor:
- Computational Thinking (CE1003/CZ1003), AY2025–26-Sem1, NTU
- Teaching assistant:
- Data Structures & Algorithms (SC1007/CZ1107/CZ1107), AY2024–25-Sem2, NTU
- Multi-disciplinary Design Project (SC2079/CE3004/CZ3004), AY2024–25-Sem1, NTU
- Multi-disciplinary Design Project (SC2079/CE3004/CZ3004), AY2023–24-Sem2, NTU
- Software Engineering (SC2006/CZ2006/CZ2006), AY2023–24-Sem1, NTU
- Multi-disciplinary Design Project (SC2079/CE3004/CZ3004), AY2023–24-Sem1, NTU
- Multi-disciplinary Design Project (SC2079/CE3004/CZ3004), AY2022–23-Sem2, NTU
🤝 Academic & Community Service
- Journal Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
- PhD Representative: SWE@NTU (Society of Women Engineers), Nanyang Technological University, 2024.11 - Now
📖 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.