Portrait of Xiao Huang

Xiao HUANG

Assistant Professor, Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Research: large language models (graph retrieval-augmented generation, LLM-based text-to-SQL), graph learning (knowledge graphs, collaborative filtering), protein design. I am actively recruiting Ph.D. students and postdocs. Feel free to email me your CV.


  • [2025/09] I am ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists (Stanford List) for 2023, 2024, and 2025, placing at 4,780 out of 458,615 researchers in the AI & Image Processing subfield in 2025.

  • [2025/09] We have one paper accepted by NeurIPS 2025

  • [2025/09] Our Text-to-SQL Survey has been accepted by TKDE

  • [2025/07] I serve as an SPC member at AAAI 2026

  • [2025/06] Novel graph learning: Graph as new language

  • [2025/01] We released a survey of Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

  • [2024/11] Our ITF project Large-Scale Recommender Systems has been funded

Selected Publications (more papers)

Retrieval-augmented generation

LLM-based text-to-SQL

Graph learning

Protein design

Knowledge graphs

Collaborative filtering

Services

  • Organization committee member: ICDE 2025 (PhD Symposium Chair), PAKDD 2026 (Doctoral Consortium Chair)

  • SPC member: AAAI 2026, PAKDD 2026

  • PC member: ICLR 2022-2026, NeurIPS 2021-2025, ICML 2021-2025, IJCAI 2020-2025, AAAI 2021-2023, KDD 2019-2023, TheWebConf 2022-2023, CIKM 2019-2022, WSDM 2021-2023, SDM 2022, ICKG 2020-2021

  • Reviewer: TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM TOIS, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE TCSS, ACM TIST

  • Session Chair: WSDM 2023, IJCAI 2023

  • Editorial board member: Computers & Education: X Reality

Awards and Patents

Media Coverage

Biography

Dr. Xiao Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2020, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2015, and a B.S. in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012. His research interests encompass LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, text-to-SQL, graph learning, knowledge graphs, and recommender systems. His scholarly contributions are highly regarded within the academic community, amassing over 5,500 citations. He received the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at SIGIR 2023. He has successfully led or completed seven research projects as Principal Investigator, securing total funding exceeding 5 million HKD. He serves as a PhD Symposium Chair for ICDE 2025 and a Doctoral Consortium Chair for PAKDD 2026. He ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists (Stanford List) for 2023, 2024, and 2025. Before his appointment at PolyU, he gained valuable experience as a research intern at Microsoft Research and Baidu USA.