Ph.D. Forum
Friday, November 13, 2026 · 13:30–15:35 · VIP Room 1
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2026 Ph.D. Forum provides an opportunity for emerging researchers to present their ongoing work, discuss their career aspirations, and engage with the broader academic and industrial community.
Program
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 13:30–13:50 | LLM-guided Neural Architecture Search | Guanghui Zhu |
| 13:50–14:05 | Graph Mining and Network Reconstruction from Incomplete Information: From Missing Statistics to Fragmentary Evidence | Minh Duc Duong |
| 14:05–14:20 | Cost-Effective Multi-Platform Recommendation via Vertical Federated Learning | Wenjie Li |
| 14:20–14:35 | Out-of-distribution Detection: Theory, Algorithm and Application | Bo Peng |
| 14:35–14:50 | SciAtlas: a Unified Infrastructure for Automated Scientific Research | Shuofei Qiao |
| 14:50–15:05 | Fast Co-Clustering with Small-Scale Similarity Graph and Bipartite Graph Learning | Xiaowei Zhao |
| 15:05–15:20 | Faithful and Verifiable Failure Attribution in Agentic Multi-Agent Systems | Qunyao Jin |
| 15:20–15:35 | Multilabel Space Anomaly Detection | Xinye Wang |
Forum Chairs

Huaijie Zhu
Associate Professor
Sun Yat-sen University

Liang Du
Professor
Shanxi University
Research interests: Trustworthy Knowledge Discovery