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📚 Our paper, Beyond Static Retrieval: Opportunities and Pitfalls of Iterative Retrieval in GraphRAG, has been accepted at EMNLP’26!

🎉 KIND Lab is moving to UGA!

🎉 Zhisheng’s work, Graph Agentic Intelligence, has been accepted at the SDM 2026 Doctoral Forum!

📚 Our paper on Explainable Benchmark for Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Prediction has been accepted at ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026!

📚 Our paper on Personalized AutoResearch has been accepted at ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026!

📚 Our paper, Towards Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey, has been accepted in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)!

📚 Our paper, Scaffold-Aware Generative Augmentation and Reranking for Enhanced Virtual Screening, has been accepted at SDM 2026!

🎉 Riya is awarded the Student Travel Award to attend KDD2026! Congratulations!

📚 Zhisheng’s first paper on Privacy Preserving on RAG has been accepted at KDD’26 Benchmark&Dataset Track (Oral)!

📚 Our paper on RAG vs. GraphRAG has been accepted at KDD’26 Benchmark&Dataset Track!

💰 Our NSF-NAIRR Pilot project on Multi-Modal Agentic Social Network Modeling and Optimization has been selected!

📚 Our paper, ReviewGrounder: Improving Review Substantiveness with Rubric-Guided, Tool-Integrated Agents, has been accepted at ACL 2026 main track!

📚 Our collaborative project ‘Fast-Food Brand Marketing and User Engagement on Instagram’ has been accepted by the Meta Content Library!

🎤 Invited to Attend NSF NAIRR Pilot Meeting, see you in DC!

📚 Our preprint Benchmarking Knowledge-Extraction Attack and Defense on RAG is online!

📚 Our paper Large Language Models for Conversational User Simulation has been accepted at EACL 2026!

📚 Our paper on RL Exploration on Graphs has been accepted at WWW’26!

📚 Our paper on Rule Mining and Learning for Structured Knowledge Retrieval has been accepted at WSDM’26!

📚 Utkarsh’s first work, Knowledge Homophily in Large Language Models, has been accepted at WSDM’26!

📚 Our paper on SaVe-TAG: Semantic-aware Vicinal Risk Minimization for Long-Tailed Text-Attributed Graphs has been accepted at KDD’26!

📚 Our paper, Building Transparency in Deep Learning-Powered Network Traffic Classification: A Traffic-Explainer Framework, has been accepted at KDD’26!

🎤 Talk at AI Seminar at Oregon State University on ‘Rigorizing Neural Thinking with Structural Intelligence’!

📚 Tutorial on Democratizing RAG with Structured Knowledge Intelligence has been accepted at WSDM’26!

📚 Workshop SURGeLLM: Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in LLMs Era has been accepted at ACL’26!

📚 Our paper, Knowledge Filtering and Integration for GraphRAG, has been accepted at EMNLP’25!

💰 Our NSF-NAIRR Pilot project on developing Foundational GraphRAG has been selected!

Riya’s Paper has been accepted at IMC 2025 Student Workshop (IMC-SW25)!

Yu Received KDD Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention!

Yu’s Collaborative Research Received NSF IIS-III Core Program!

Our paper, DynaSaur: Large Language Agents Beyond Predefined Actions, has been accepted at COLM’25!

Utkarsh first paper, A Graph Perspective to Probe Structural Patterns of Knowledge in Large Language Models, is online!

Our paper, Edges Matter: An Analysis of Graph Time-Series Representations for Temporal Networks, has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)!

Our paper, Personalization of Large Language Models: A Survey, has been accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)!

Yongjia first paper, Mixture of Structural-and-Textual Retrieval over Text-rich Graph Knowledge Bases, has been accepted at ACL 2025 Findings!

3 papers accepted at ACL 2025, 1 paper accepted at KDD 2025!

My student, Yongjia, has been awarded the SDM Doctorum Forum Poster Session Honorable Mention Award!

Congratulations to Yongjia for receiving the internship offer from Adobe!

Our paper, Building Trust in Machine Learning-Powered Networking: The Network Explainer Framework, has been accepted at SDM-AI4TS2025, congratulations Riya!

Our paper, Mixture of Structural-and-Textual Retrieval over Text-rich Graph Knowledge Bases, has been accepted at NAACL SRM2025!

Our paper, GRS-QA - Graph Reasoning-Structured Question Answering Dataset, has been accepted at NAACL SRM2025!

Our workshop, ML on Graphs in the Era of Artificial General Intelligence, has been accepted at KDD2025!

Yongjia is awarded the SIAM Student Travel Award to attend SDM2025!

Welcome two new PhD members!
Zhisheng and Dingyi join KIND Lab

Our preprint Mixture of Structural-and-Textual Retrieval over Text-rich Graph Knowledge Bases is now online!

Congratulations to Riya for being selected as a fellow for the competitive 2025 Pulse Research Fellowship!

Our paper on Demystifying the Power of Large Language Models in Graph Generation has been accepted at NAACL’25 Findings!

Our paper on Large Graph Generative Models has been accepted at ICLR’25!

Our survey on GraphRAG is online!

Yu Wang received the outstanding reviewer award at ECML-PKDD’24!

1 paper accepted at AAAI’25!

Yu Wang gave a talk at LoG UW-Seattle Meetup!

1 tutorial accepted to SDM’25!

1 paper accepted at WSDM’24!

Tutorial on Data-centric Graph ML given at CIKM’24!

Welcome new MS member!
Ruimin, Utkarsh join KIND Lab

1 paper accepted at CIKM’24!

Welcome new PhD member!
Yongjia join KIND Lab

Our paper WelQrate: Defining the Gold Standard in Small Molecule Drug Discovery Benchmarking is accepted at NeurIPS2024!

Yu Wang joins UO and establishes KIND Lab!