Jicong Fan

Jicong Fan

Assistant Professor, CUHK-Shenzhen

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Before joining CUHK-Shenzhen, I was a Postdoctoral Associate (advisor: Madeleine Udell) at the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. I completed my PhD at City University of Hong Kong in Electronic Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Tommy W.S. Chow. During my PhD, I was a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. I obtained my Bachelor’s (Automation) and Master’s (Control Science and Engineering, supervisor: Youqing Wang) degrees from Beijing University of Chemical Technology. After that, I was a Research Assistant at The University of Hong Kong.

Here is my personal page on my university website.

My research focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning, with extensive work in matrix/tensor methods, clustering algorithms, graph learning, anomaly detection, and recommender systems. I have published over 70 papers in prestigious academic journals and international conferences, including IEEE TSP, TNNLS, TII, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, KDD, and AAAI. I’m a Senior Member of IEEE and currently serve as an Associate/Action Editor for international journals such as Pattern Recognition, Neural Processing Letters, and Transactions on Machine Learning Research. I also act as an Area Chair for international AI/machine learning conferences, including ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR. I have led research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientists Fund and General Program) and the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (General Program). I was awarded the First Prize of the Natural Science Award by the Chinese Association of Automation in 2023.

I am looking for PhD students, Postdocs, and Research Assistants. If you are interested in these positions, please send me your CV/resume. For PhD or Postdoc, please also send me your research plan.

樊继聪老师现为香港中文大学(深圳)数据科学学院助理教授、博士生导师、校长青年学者。在此之前，他是康奈尔大学的博士后(advisor:Madeleine Udell)。他在香港城市大学电子工程系取得博士学位(导师:Tommy W.S. Chow)，在北京化工大学获得控制科学与工程硕士学位(导师:王友清)和自动化学士学位。他曾是美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校访问学生和香港大学研究助理。他的研究方向是人工智能和机器学习，他在矩阵/张量方法、聚类算法、图学习、异常检测和推荐系统等方面做了大量研究工作，在知名学术期刊和国际会议上，如IEEE TSP/TNNLS/TII、NeurIPS、ICLR、ICML、CVPR、KDD、AAAI，发表论文60余篇。 他是IEEE高级会员，目前担任国际期刊《Pattern Recognition》（中科院一区）、《Neural Processing Letters》、《Transactions on Machine Learning Research》的副编辑/执行编辑，担任国际人工智能/机器学习会议ICML、NeurIPS和ICLR领域主席，主持国家自然科学基金青年项目、面上项目、广东省面上项目等，获得2023年中国自动化学会自然科学奖一等奖，入选斯坦福大学/爱思唯尔2023、2024、2025(年度/终身)“全球Top 2% 科学家”榜单。

樊老师课题组目前主要研究以下问题：1)图机器学习; 2)异常检测; 3)自动机器学习; 4)人工智能在生命科学、化学和化工中的应用; 5)基于大数据的健康监测和疾病诊断系统。

樊老师课题组目前招收博士生、博士后、研究助理，感兴趣的同学请发送简历及研究计划(如有)到邮箱。一些要求如下：

  • 博士生 为人诚实守信，工作认真负责，优先考虑满足以下任一条件的同学（本科或硕士）：1)本科毕业于985高校且成绩专业排名不低于前百分之二十；2)本科成绩专业排名前百分之五；3)以第一作者身份发表过CCFA/B类论文或者电子工程/自动化等领域同等水平论文（如果是硕士毕业，该条件必须满足)。本课题组为所有博士生提供全额奖学金和生活补贴。
  • 博士后 为人诚实守信，工作认真负责，即将或者已经获得博士学位，以第一作者身份发表过两篇CCFA/B类论文或者电子工程/自动化等领域同等水平论文。待遇面议。
  • 研究助理 为人诚实守信，工作认真负责，本硕在读或者已毕业均可，优先考虑满足以下任一条件的同学：1)本科毕业于985高校且成绩专业排名不低于前百分之三十；2)本科成绩专业排名前百分之十；3)以第一作者身份发表过CCFA/B类论文或者电子工程/自动化等领域同等水平论文。

Preprints

  • Qi Feng, Jicong Fan*. Training A Foundation Model to Represent Graphs as Vectors. arXiv 2026. [PDF]
  • Feng Xiao, Jicong Fan*. Text-ADBench: Text Anomaly Detection Benchmark based on LLMs Embedding. arXiv 2025. [PDF]
  • Dong Qiao, Jicong Fan*. Mutual Regressin Distance. arXiv 2025. [PDF]
  • Zixiao Wang, Dong Qiao, Jicong Fan*. Spectral Clustering for Discrete Distributions. arXiv 2024. [PDF]

Selected Publications (* indicates corresponding author)

  • Jicong Fan. An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Task Review on Missing Data Imputation. Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing (2026) 20 (3): 185–317. [PDF]
  • Dazhi Fu, Zhao Zhang, Jicong Fan*. Noise-Robust Density Estimation for Tabular Data Anomaly Detection. ICML 2026. [PDF]
  • Xudong Wang, Ziheng Sun, Chris Ding, Jicong Fan*. Learnable Kernel Density Estimation for Graphs and Its Application to Graph-Level Anomaly Detection. ICML 2026. [PDF]
  • Dazhi Fu, Jicong Fan*. UniOD: A Universal Model for Outlier Detection across Diverse Domains. ICLR 2026. [PDF]
  • Wei Dai, Jicong Fan*. AutoDV: An End-to-End Deep Learning Model for High-Dimensional Data Visualization. ICLR 2026. [PDF]
  • Chao Ouyang, Haijun Zhang*, Jicong Fan*. BOGK: Bayesian Optimization-Driven Graph Kernel Ensemble for Graph-level Clustering. IEEE TKDE 2026.
  • Feng Xiao, Xiaoying Tang, Jicong Fan*. Fairness-aware Anomaly Detection via Fair Projection. NeurIPS 2025. [PDF]
  • Feng Xiao, Youqing Wang, S Joe Qin, Jicong Fan*. Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection Using Restricted Distribution Transformation. IEEE TNNLS 2025. [PDF]
  • Jinyu Cai, Yunhe Zhang, Jicong Fan*. Self-Discriminative Modeling for Anomalous Graph Detection. ICML 2025. [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan. Graph Minimum Factorization Distance and Its Application to Large-Scale Graph Data Clustering. ICML 2025. [PDF]
  • Xudong Wang, Ziheng Sun, Chris Ding, Jicong Fan*. Explainable Graph Representation Learning via Graph Pattern Analysis. IJCAI 2025.
  • Wei Dai, Jicong Fan*. AutoUAD: Hyper-parameter Optimization for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection. ICLR 2025. [PDF]
  • Liangqi Xie, Jicong Fan*. Multi-Subspace Matrix Recovery from Permuted Data. AAAI 2025. [PDF]
  • Tongle Wu, Ying Sun*, Jicong Fan*. Non-Convex Tensor Recovery from Local Measurements. AAAI 2025. [PDF]
  • Dong Qiao, Xinxian Ma, Jicong Fan*. Federated t-SNE and UMAP for Distributed Data Visualization. AAAI 2025. [PDF]
  • Wei Dai, Kai Hwang, Jicong Fan*. Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Tabular Data Using Noise Evaluation. AAAI 2025. [PDF]
  • Tongle Wu, Jicong Fan*. Smooth Tensor Product for Tensor Completion. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2024. [PDF]
  • Zixiao Wang, Jicong Fan*. Graph Classification via Reference Distribution Learning: Theory and Practice. NeurIPS 2024. [PDF]
  • Feng Xiao, Jicong Fan*. Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in The Presence of Missing Values. NeurIPS 2024. [PDF]
  • Ziheng Sun, Xudong Wang, Chris Ding, Jicong Fan*. Learning Graph Representation via Graph Entropy Maximization. ICML 2024. [PDF]
  • Yunhe Zhang, Yan Sun, Jinyu Cai, Jicong Fan*. Deep Orthogonal Hypersphere Compression for Anomaly Detection. ICLR 2024. (Spotlight, acceptance rate=5%) [PDF]
  • Yan Sun, Jicong Fan*. MMD Graph Kernel: Effective Metric Learning for Graphs via Maximum Mean Discrepancy. ICLR 2024. (Spotlight, acceptance rate=5%) [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan, Rui Chen, Zhao Zhang, Chris Ding. Neuron-Enhanced AutoEncoder Matrix Completion and Collaborative Filtering: Theory and Practice. ICLR 2024. [PDF]
  • Dazhi Fu, Zhao Zhang, Jicong Fan*. Dense Projection for Anomaly Detection. AAAI 2024. [PDF]
  • Ziheng Sun, Chris Ding, Jicong Fan*. Lovász Principle for Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning. NeurIPS 2023. [PDF]
  • Zhihao Wu, Zhao Zhang, Jicong Fan*. Graph Convolutional Kernel Machine versus Graph Convolutional Networks. NeurIPS 2023. [PDF]
  • Dong Qiao, Chris Ding, Jicong Fan*. Federated Spectral Clustering via Secure Similarity Reconstruction. NeurIPS 2023. [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan, Lijun Ding, Chengrun Yang, Zhao Zhang, Madeleine Udell. Euclidean-Norm-Induced Schatten-p Quasi-Norm Regularization for Low-Rank Tensor Completion and Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis. Transactions on Machine Learning Research 2023. [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan, Yiheng Tu, Zhao Zhang, Mingbo Zhao, Haijun Zhang. A Simple Approach to Automated Spectral Clustering. NeurIPS 2022. [PDF]
  • Jinyu Cai, Jicong Fan*. Perturbation Learning Based Anomaly Detection. NeurIPS 2022. [PDF]
  • Jinyu Cai, Jicong Fan*, Wenzhong Guo, Shiping Wang, Yunhe Zhang, Zhao Zhang. Efficient Deep Embedded Subspace Clustering. CVPR 2022. [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan. Multi-Mode Deep Matrix and Tensor Factorization. ICLR 2022. [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan. Dynamic Nonlinear Matrix Completion for Time-Varying Data Imputation. AAAI 2022. (acceptance rate=15%) [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan. Large-Scale Subspace Clustering via k-Factorization. KDD 2021. (acceptance rate=15.4%) [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan*, Tommy WS Chow, S Joe Qin. Kernel Based Statistical Process Monitoring and Fault Detection in the Presence of Missing Data. IEEE TII 2022. [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan*, Chengrun Yang, Madeleine Udell. Robust Non-Linear Matrix Factorization for Dictionary Learning, Denoising, and Clustering. IEEE TSP 2021. [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan, Yuqian Zhang, Madeleine Udell. Polynomial matrix completion for missing data imputation and transductive learning. AAAI 2020. (Oral, acceptance rate=6%) [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan, Lijun Ding, Yudong Chen, Madeleine Udell. Factor group sparse regularization for efficient low-rank matrix recovery. NeurIPS 2019. (acceptance rate=21.1%) [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan, Tommy W.S. Chow. Exactly robust kernel principal component analysis. IEEE TNNLS 2020. [PDF]
  • Jicong Fan, Madeleine Udell. Online high-rank matrix completion. CVPR 2019 (Oral, acceptance rate=5.6%). [PDF]