Welcome!

We are the Knowledge Intelligence for Discovery and Decision-Making (KIND) Lab at the University of Georgia, led by Yu Wang. Our research lies in exploring knowledge intelligence solutions in discovery and decision-making through data mining and machine learning techniques for advancing social-good applications.

UGA is a leading public research university, ranked #19 among U.S. public universities (U.S. News 2026), #10 (Niche 2026), #18 (Forbes 2026), and #12 Best Value Public School (The Princeton Review 2025).

We are recruiting PhD students to work with us in the KIND Lab on topics in our general interests. Master, undergraduate students, and visiting scholars are also welcome. Please see here for position details.


We are grateful to the following for supporting our research:

News

09/2026
📚 Our paper on environment-policy co-evolving, VICO: Visual Environments Co-Evolving for Vision-Language Model Reasoning, has been accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations & Datasets Track. Congratulations, Utkarsh and Zhisheng!
09/2026
📚 Our paper, Benchmarking Multi-Modal Graph-Based Social Media Popularity Prediction, has been accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations & Datasets Track. Congratulations, Utkarsh!
09/2026
📚 Our work with high-school student Amelie Wei, Engagement Effects of User-Generated vs Corporate Aesthetics in Fast-Food Instagram Marketing, has been accepted for presentation at MediAsia2026!
08/2026
📚 Our paper, Beyond Static Retrieval: Opportunities and Pitfalls of Iterative Retrieval in GraphRAG, has been accepted at EMNLP'26!
08/2026
🎉 KIND Lab is moving to UGA!
08/2026
🎉 Zhisheng's work, Graph Agentic Intelligence, has been accepted at the SDM 2026 Doctoral Forum!
08/2026
📚 Our paper on Explainable Benchmark for Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Prediction has been accepted at ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026!
08/2026
📚 Our paper on Personalized AutoResearch has been accepted at ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026!
07/2026
📚 Our paper, Towards Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey, has been accepted in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)!
07/2026
📚 Our paper, Scaffold-Aware Generative Augmentation and Reranking for Enhanced Virtual Screening, has been accepted at SDM 2026!
07/2026
🎉 Riya is awarded the Student Travel Award to attend KDD2026! Congratulations!
05/2026
📚 Zhisheng's first paper on Privacy Preserving on RAG has been accepted at KDD'26 Benchmark&Dataset Track (Oral)!
05/2026
📚 Our paper on RAG vs. GraphRAG has been accepted at KDD'26 Benchmark&Dataset Track!
04/2026
💰 Our NSF-NAIRR Pilot project on Multi-Modal Agentic Social Network Modeling and Optimization has been selected!

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