Sihao Ding 丁斯昊

Recommendation Algorithm Engineer at ByteDance (TikTok).

Ph.D. at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Advisor: Xiangnan He (何向南) & Fuli Feng (冯福利).


Research Interests:

Data mining, Recommender system,

Causal inference, and Graph learning.


dnumberfour4@gmail.com
dsihao@mail.ustc.edu.cn

Hefei, China

Research

Interpolative Distillation for Unifying Biased and Debiased Recommendation
Sihao Ding, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Jinqiu Jin, Wenjie Wang, Yong Liao, Yongdong Zhang
SIGIR '22
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Addressing Unmeasured Confounder for Recommendation with Sensitivity Analysis
Sihao Ding, Peng Wu, Fuli Feng, Yitong Wang, Xiangnan He, Yong Liao, Yongdong Zhang
KDD '22
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Causal Incremental Graph Convolution for Recommender System Retraining
Sihao Ding, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Yong Liao, Jun Shi, Yongdong Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
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Understanding and Counteracting Feature-Level Bias in Click-Through Rate Prediction
Jinqiu Jin, Sihao Ding, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng
WWW '24
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Be Aware of the Neighborhood Effect: Modeling Selection Bias under Interference for Recommendation
Haoxuan Li, Chunyuan Zheng, Sihao Ding, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Zhi Geng, Peng Wu
ICLR '24
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Fairly Recommending with Social Attributes: A Flexible and Controllable Optimization Approach
Jinqiu Jin, Haoxuan Li, Fuli Feng, Sihao Ding, Peng Wu, Xiangnan
NeurIPS '23
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Education

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
2018.09 - 2023.06
School of Information Science and Technology & School of Cyber Science and Technology.
Advisor: Xiangnan He (何向南) & Fuli Feng (冯福利).
Mentor: Manqing Wu (吴曼青) & Yongdong Zhang (张勇东).
Research topics: Recommender systems, Causal inference, Graph learning.
Thesis: 因果增强的去偏推荐方法研究
XIDIAN University (XIDIAN)
2014.09 - 2018.07
B.Eng. in School of Electronic Engineering. GPA: 4.0 (92/100), Ranking: Top-5% tire
Thesis: Micro-expression recognition based on deep learning.

Awards & Honors

2023 WeiLai Special Scholarship in University of Science and Technology of China.
18-23 First Class Scholarship in University of Science and Technology of China.
2018 Outstanding Award in Mathematical Contest In Modeling.
2018 Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis Award in XiDian University.
2017 China National Scholarship.