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Nicholas Jing Yuan publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicholas Jing Yuan sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 64 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Nicholas Jing Yuan D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicholas Jing Yuan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 37 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Nicholas Jing Yuan is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research focuses on computer science, with significant contributions in artificial intelligence and computer vision and pattern recognition. Their work also spans related areas including signal processing, management science and operations research, and human-computer interaction.

The scientist has an extensive publication record predominantly in the field of computer science, covering major topics such as:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

They have published 88 works in total, with many featured in leading venues. Prominent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Recent papers exemplify a focus on multimodal data and pattern recognition technologies. These include:

  • "Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Construction and Application: A Survey" (2022) published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • "SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy between Text Detection and Text Recognition" (2022) presented at the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • "Multi-modal Siamese Network for Entity Alignment" (2022) published in the Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • "Look Closer to Supervise Better: One-Shot Font Generation via Component-Based Discriminator" (2022) presented at the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • "Delving Deep into Regularity: A Simple but Effective Method for Chinese Named Entity Recognition" (2022) published in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers in their research. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Baoxing Huai
  • Xiaoye Qu
  • Zhefeng Wang
  • Zhicheng Wei
  • Zhou Zhao

Best Publications

  • Collaborative Knowledge Base Embedding for Recommender Systems

    Fuzheng Zhang;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Defu Lian;Xing Xie

  • DRN: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for News Recommendation

    Guanjie Zheng;Fuzheng Zhang;Zihan Zheng;Yang Xiang

  • T-Finder: A Recommender System for Finding Passengers and Vacant Taxis

    N. J. Yuan;Yu Zheng;Liuhang Zhang;Xing Xie

  • Discovering Urban Functional ZonesUsing Latent Activity Trajectories

    Nicholas Jing Yuan;Yu Zheng;Xing Xie;Yingzi Wang

  • Online Discovery of Gathering Patterns over Trajectories

    Kai Zheng;Yu Zheng;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Shuo Shang

  • On discovery of gathering patterns from trajectories

    Kai Zheng;Yu Zheng;N. J. Yuan;Shuo Shang

  • Towards efficient search for activity trajectories

    Kai Zheng;Shuo Shang;N. J. Yuan;Yi Yang

  • You Are Where You Go: Inferring Demographic Attributes from Location Check-ins

    Yuan Zhong;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Wen Zhong;Fuzheng Zhang

  • Regularity and Conformity: Location Prediction Using Heterogeneous Mobility Data

    Yingzi Wang;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Defu Lian;Linli Xu

  • MM-Diffusion: Learning Multi-Modal Diffusion Models for Joint Audio and Video Generation

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  • We know how you live: exploring the spectrum of urban lifestyles

    Nicholas Jing Yuan;Fuzheng Zhang;Defu Lian;Kai Zheng

  • Beyond the Words: Predicting User Personality from Heterogeneous Information

    Honghao Wei;Fuzheng Zhang;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Chuan Cao

  • Content-Aware Collaborative Filtering for Location Recommendation Based on Human Mobility Data

    Defu Lian;Yong Ge;Fuzheng Zhang;Nicholas Jing Yuan

  • CEPR: A Collaborative Exploration and Periodically Returning Model for Location Prediction

    Defu Lian;Xing Xie;Vincent W. Zheng;Nicholas Jing Yuan

  • Approximate keyword search in semantic trajectory database

    Bolong Zheng;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Kai Zheng;Xing Xie

  • An Influence Propagation View of PageRank

    Qi Liu;Biao Xiang;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Enhong Chen

  • Scalable Content-Aware Collaborative Filtering for Location Recommendation

    Defu Lian;Yong Ge;Fuzheng Zhang;Nicholas Jing Yuan

  • Segmentation of Urban Areas Using Road Networks

    Nicholas Jing Yuan;Yu Zheng;Xing Xie

  • BERT-MK: Integrating Graph Contextualized Knowledge into Pre-trained Language Models

    Bin He;Di Zhou;Jinghui Xiao;Xin Jiang

  • Intelligent bus routing with heterogeneous human mobility patterns

    Yanchi Liu;Chuanren Liu;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Lian Duan

  • Sensing the Pulse of Urban Refueling Behavior: A Perspective from Taxi Mobility

    Fuzheng Zhang;Nicholas Jing Yuan;David Wilkie;Yu Zheng

  • XiaoIce Band: A Melody and Arrangement Generation Framework for Pop Music

    Hongyuan Zhu;Qi Liu;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Chuan Qin

Frequent Co-Authors

Xing Xie
Xing Xie Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Defu Lian
Defu Lian University of Science and Technology of China
Yu Zheng
Yu Zheng Jingdong (China)
Enhong Chen
Enhong Chen University of Science and Technology of China
Yong Rui
Yong Rui Lenovo (China)
Hui Xiong
Hui Xiong Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tao Zhou
Tao Zhou University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Xiaofang Zhou
Xiaofang Zhou Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yong Ge
Yong Ge University of Arizona
Rui Zhang
Rui Zhang National University of Singapore

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