Dr. Lixing Chen is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami in 2020 with Eliahu I. and Joyce Jury Award (Advisor: Jie Xu). Dr. Chen has authored over 100 papers in leading journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE TC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TIFS, as well as premier conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, and KDD, and 3 papers have been recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%). Dr. Chen ranked among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide for 5 consecutive years and has been honored as a Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent. He has led more than 10 research projects, including a Young Scientists Fund project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a subproject from the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and a key project from the Third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security.
My research interests include:
- AI for Web/Web for AI
- Multi-Agentic AI
- AI for Cybersecurity
News
Recent updates and highlights:
- [2026/06] One paper is accepted by IEEE ToN
- [2026/05] One paper is accepted by KDD 2026
- [2026/04] One paper is accepted by ACL 2026
- [2026/04] Three papers are accepted by WWW 2026 as oral presentations
- [2026/02] One paper is accepted by IEEE TMC
- [2026/02] One paper is accepted by IEEE TSC
- [2026/02] One paper is accepted by IEEE ToN
- [2025/12] Two papers are accepted by NeurIPS 2025
- [2025/09] One paper is accepted by IEEE TMC
- [2025/08] One paper is accepted by KDD 2025
Prospective Students
I am always looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated students to work together on AI for Web and Cybersecurity. Please email me with your CV and transcripts if you are interested.
Selected Publications
* indicates corresponding author, # indicates equal contribution. See the full publication list on Publications page.
- [KDD-26] Agentic LLMs for Social Network Generation using Explainable Adversarial Re-prompting. Haorui Yan, Lixing Chen*, Bo Zhang, Hongfu Liu, Hao Peng, Shenghong Li, Yang Bai, Zhe Qu. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026. [Paper] [Code]
- [WWW-26] Augmenting Cross-View Geo-Localization with Spatial Semantics from Vision Foundation Models. Ji Shen, Lixing Chen*, Yang Bai, Zhongqi Miao, Zhe Qu, Pan Zhou, Jianhua Li. Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), 2026. [Paper] [Code]
- [WWW-26] How Human Experts Educate Specialized LLMs: Filling Knowledge Gaps in KG-Augmented Generation through Hallucination Detection. Chaofan Li, Lixing Chen*, Junhua Tang, Yang Bai, Yutong Zhang, Zhi Zheng, Pan Zhou, Zhe Qu. Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), 2026. [Paper][Code]
- [TSC-26] Time Will Tell: Criss-cross Transformer for Encrypted Traffic Analysis. Hua Ding, Lixing Chen*, Bo Zhang, Shenghong Li, Hao Peng, Zhe Qu, Yang Bai. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2026. [Paper][Code]
- [ToN-26] DApp Scheduling for Hybrid Computing in Edge Web 3.0: A Reinforcement Learning Framework With Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks. Zhongqi Miao, Xichun Cai, Lixing Chen*, Yang Bai, Zhe Qu, Pan Zhou, Heqiang Wang, Xinping Guan. IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2026. [Paper][Code]
- [KDD-25] Way to Specialist: Closing Loop Between Specialized LLM and Evolving Domain Knowledge Graph. Yutong Zhang, Lixing Chen*, Shenghong Li, et al. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2025. [Paper]
- [AAAI-24] What Makes Good Collaborative Views? Contrastive Mutual Information Maximization for Multi-Agent Perception. Wanfang Su, Lixing Chen*, Yang Bai, Xi Lin, Gaolei Li, Zhe Qu, Pan Zhou. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024. [Paper][Code]
