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, including SIGIR, SIGKDD, and ECML. He has served as a Session Chair and 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

• Conference Organizer: ACM SIGKDD 2025 ADS Track Session Chair
• Conference Paper Reviewer: ACM SIGKDD Conference (Top-10% Outstanding Reviewer Award), ACM Web Conference
• Journal Paper Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology