About Me

Siqi Lai received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wuhan University in 2022, where he was advised by Prof. Chenliang Li. He is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in the Artificial Intelligence Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Hao Liu and advised by Prof. Hui Xiong. His research interests lie at the intersection of large language models (LLMs), data mining, and intelligent transportation systems. Siqi has published in top-tier conferences such as SIGIR and SIGKDD, and has served as a Program Committee (PC) member for SIGKDD.

Education

• Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, HKUST, 09/2023–Present
• Research Assistant, AI Thrust, HKUST, 09/2022–09/2023
• Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University, 09/2018–06/2022

Skills

• Photography, badminton, tennis, Japanese (JLPT N3)

Service

• SIGKDD 2025 Program Committee Member (Top-10% Outstanding Reviewer Award)