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Zhuowei (Alvin) Zhao 

General

Zhuowei Zhao did his Ph.D.  degree in the School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS) at The University of Melbourne (UoM) under the supervision of Dr. Junhao Gan, A/Prof. Jianzhong Qi, and Prof. Zhifeng Bao. Before he started his Ph.D. study, he finished an MPhil degree under the supervision of A/Prof. Jianzhong Qi, and Prof. Rui Zhang in the same school. 

Research Topic

Mining Information from Graphs: Searching, Clustering, and Information Propagation.

Publications

• Qiyuan Zhu, Zhuowei Zhao, A. K. Qin, Hussein Dia and Hanna Grzybowska

Unsupervised and Decentralized Traffic Incident Detection via Network Lasso

To appear in IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026.

• Qihong Yang, Zhuowei Zhao, Dong Zhao, A. K. Qin, and Yu Sun

Multi-objective Optimisation of Traffic Light Control for Fast and Safe Traffic Incident Recovery

To appear in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2026.

• Zhuowei Zhao, Zhuo Zhang, Hanzhi Wang, Junhao Gan, Zhifeng Bao, Jianzhong Qi

Approximate Graph Propagation Revisited: Dynamic Parameterized Queries, Tighter Bounds and Dynamic Updates

arXiv:2509.10036

• Zhuowei Zhao, Junhao Gan, Boyu Ruan, Zhifeng Bao, Jianzhong Qi and Sibo Wang

       Dynamic Structural Clustering Unleashed: Flexibility Similarities, Versatile Updates and for All Parameters

      ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2025. (source code)

• Zhuowei Zhao, Junhao Gan, Jianzhong Qi and Zhifeng Bao

       Efficient Example-Guided Interactive Graph Search

      IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024. (source code, poster)

• Jianzhong Qi, Zhuowei Zhao, Egemen Tanin, Tingru Cui, Neema Nassir, and Majid Sarvi.

A Graph and Attentive Multi-Path Convolutional Network for Traffic Prediction. 

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022. (source code) 

• Jianzhong Qi, Wei Wang, Rui Zhang, Zhuowei Zhao*

      A Learning Based Approach to Predict Shortest-Path Distances. 

      International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT),  367-370, 2020. (source code) 

         *The authors are ordered alphabetically

Thesis

• Mining Information from Graphs: Searching, Clustering, and Information Propagation

        PhD Thesis,  School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne.

• Embedding Graphs for Shortest-Path Distance Predictions   

       MPhil Thesis,  School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne.

Awards

• Google Travel Grant 2025

• GovHack Australia 2023 Honourable mention

• GovHack Australia 2022 Winner

• GovHack Australia 2021 Runner Up

Conference Services

• PC Member, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2026

• PC Member, European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2026

• PC Member, The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2025, 2026

• Student Volunteer Chair, Australasian Database Conference (ADC) 2023 

• Sub-reviewer, The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2022