2026 Hongyuan Zha: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	87	721	696	108	106	427	31801

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award

Overview

Hongyuan Zha is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in China. Their research primarily lies within the field of Computer Science, with a substantial focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Information Systems, and Applied Mathematics.

The scientist's work covers several specialized topics including Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Advanced Graph Neural Networks, Model Reduction and Neural Networks, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Topic Modeling, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, and Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hongyuan Zha include Xiangfeng Wang, Junchi Yan, Wenhao Li, Junjie Sheng, and Bo Jin. These collaborations reflect sustained research partnerships over numerous projects.

The researcher has contributed papers to various scholarly venues. Notable publication venues in their career are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Among recent papers are:

"Generalize a Small Pre-trained Model to Arbitrarily Large TSP Instances" (2021), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Modeling Event Propagation via Graph Biased Temporal Point Process" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
"Multi-Agent Path Finding with Prioritized Communication Learning" (2022), published in 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
"Cross-Network Skip-Gram Embedding for Joint Network Alignment and Link Prediction" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
"BackdoorBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Backdoor Learning" (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

Principal Manifolds and Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction via Tangent Space Alignment

Zhenyue Zhang;Hongyuan Zha

2677
Citations
A min-max cut algorithm for graph partitioning and data clustering

C.H.Q. Ding;Xiaofeng He;Xiaofeng He;Hongyuan Zha;Ming Gu

1201
Citations
Spectral Relaxation for K-means Clustering

Hongyuan Zha;Xiaofeng He;Chris Ding;Ming Gu

851
Citations
Principal Manifolds and Nonlinear Dimension Reduction via Local Tangent Space Alignment

Zhenyue Zhang;Hongyuan Zha

827
Citations
Sensor positioning in wireless ad-hoc sensor networks using multidimensional scaling

Xiang Ji;Hongyuan Zha

824
Citations
R1-PCA: rotational invariant L 1 -norm principal component analysis for robust subspace factorization

Chris Ding;Ding Zhou;Xiaofeng He;Hongyuan Zha

776
Citations
PageRank: HITS and a Unified Framework for Link Analysis.

Chris H. Q. Ding;Xiaofeng He;Parry Husbands;Hongyuan Zha

547
Citations
Two supervised learning approaches for name disambiguation in author citations

Hui Han;Lee Giles;Hongyuan Zha;Cheng Li

544
Citations
Sequential Recommendation with User Memory Networks

Xu Chen;Hongteng Xu;Yongfeng Zhang;Jiaxi Tang

504
Citations
Like like alike: joint friendship and interest propagation in social networks

Shuang-Hong Yang;Bo Long;Alex Smola;Narayanan Sadagopan

494
Citations
Bipartite graph partitioning and data clustering

Hongyuan Zha;Xiaofeng He;Chris Ding;Horst Simon

489
Citations
Automatic document metadata extraction using support vector machines

Hui Han;C.L. Giles;E. Manavoglu;Hongyuan Zha

479
Citations
Adaptive dimension reduction for clustering high dimensional data

C. Ding;Xiaofeng He;Hongyuan Zha;H.D. Simon

431
Citations
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media

Jiang Bian;Yandong Liu;Eugene Agichtein;Hongyuan Zha

397
Citations
Name disambiguation in author citations using a K-way spectral clustering method

Hui Han;Hongyuan Zha;C.L. Giles

393
Citations
Adaptive Manifold Learning

Zhenyue Zhang;Jing Wang;Hongyuan Zha

390
Citations
Generic summarization and keyphrase extraction using mutual reinforcement principle and sentence clustering

Hongyuan Zha

382
Citations
Learning Social Infectivity in Sparse Low-rank Networks Using Multi-dimensional Hawkes Processes

Ke Zhou;Hongyuan Zha;Le Song

381
Citations
Contour regression: A general approach to dimension reduction

Bing Li;Hongyuan Zha;Francesca Chiaromonte

365
Citations
Functional matrix factorizations for cold-start recommendation

Ke Zhou;Shuang-Hong Yang;Hongyuan Zha

343
Citations
DyRep: Learning Representations over Dynamic Graphs

Rakshit Trivedi;Mehrdad Farajtabar;Prasenjeet Biswal;Hongyuan Zha

199
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Junchi Yan Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Xiaokang Yang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Le Song Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Horst D. Simon Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Chris Ding Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Ya Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

C. Lee Giles Pennsylvania State University

Yi Chang Jilin University

Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Gui-Rong Xue Alibaba Group (China)

External Links

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