Yue Zhao
Research ❑ Unsupervised Machine Learning ❑ Machine Learning Systems
Keywords ❑ Outlier & Anomaly Detection ❑ Automated Machine Learning
❑ Fraud Detection ❑ Risk Modeling
❑ Healthcare AI ❑ Security AI
❑ Out-of-distribution (OOD) Detection ❑ Graph Neural Networks
❑ Meta Learning ❑ Parallel Computing
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Ñ andrew.cmu.edu/user/yuezhao2 United States, 90089
³ Google Scholar University of Southern California
Biography I got my Ph.D. in 4 years at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). My research accelerates and
automates unsupervised ML: (1) how to support large-scale learning with ML systems and
(2) how to automate unsupervised ML model selection and hyperparameter optimization. I build
interdisciplinary AI/ML applications in finance, healthcare, and security.
Open-source Open-source Contribution: I have led or contributed as a core developer to more than 10 ML
Highlights open-source initiatives. Popular ones include PyOD (A Python Toolbox for Scalable Outlier Detec-
§ yzhao062 tion), ADBench (Anomaly Detection Benchmark), and TDC (An ML Data Hub for Drug Discovery)
My works receive §⋆16,000 GitHub Stars and 15,000,000 downloads as of June 9, 2023.
Full-time University of Southern California
Professional Department of Computer Science
Experience Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Aug. 2023 - Present
PwC Canada
Consulting & Deals
Senior Consultant (Data Scientist) Aug. 2017 - Jun. 2019
Consultant (Data Scientist) Feb. 2017 - Jul. 2017
Research Associate (Intern) May. 2016 - Jan. 2017
Education Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D. in Information Systems Sep. 2019 - May. 2023
• Affiliation: CMU automated learning systems group (Catalyst) and Data Analytics Techniques
Algorithms (DATA) Lab
• Advisors and Mentors: CMU: Prof. Leman Akoglu, Prof. Zhihao Jia, and Prof. George Chen.
I collaborate with Prof. Jure Leskovec at Stanford, and Prof. Philip S. Yu at UIC.
University of Toronto Toronto, ON
Master of Science in Computer Science Sep. 2015 - Dec. 2016
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Sep. 2010 - May. 2015
Minor: Computer Science and Mathematics
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Publications Preprints & Under Submission
³ Scholar 34. Minqi Jiang, Chaochuan Hou, Ao Zheng, Xiyang Hu, Songqiao Han, Hailiang Huang, Xiangnan
D ResearchG He, Philip S. Yu, Yue Zhao
Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection: A Survey
Under submission
arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.04549
33. Ling Yang, Zhilong Zhang, Yang Song, Shenda Hong, Runsheng Xu, Yue Zhao, Yingxia Shao,
Wentao Zhang, Bin Cui, Ming-Hsuan Yang
Diffusion Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Methods and Applications
Under submission
arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00796
32. Yue Zhao, Leman Akoglu
Hyperparameter Optimization for Unsupervised Outlier Detection
Under submission
arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11727
31. Kay Liu*, Yingtong Dou*, Yue Zhao*, et al.
PyGOD: A Python Library for Graph Outlier Detection
arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12095
(*equal contribution)
Peer-reviewed Journal Papers
31. Yue Zhao*, Martin Q. Ma*, Xiaorong Zhang, Leman Akoglu
The Need for Unsupervised Outlier Model Selection: A Review and Evaluation of Internal
Evaluation Strategies
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter (SIGKDD Explor.), 2023
(*equal contribution)
30. Kexin Huang*, Tianfan Fu*, Wenhao Gao*, Yue Zhao, Yusuf Roohani, Jure Leskovec, Connor
W. Coley, Cao Xiao, Jimeng Sun, Marinka Zitnik
Artificial Intelligence Foundation for Therapeutic Science
Nature Chemical Biology (NCHEMB), 2022
(*equal contribution)
29. Yue Zhao*, Zheng Li*, Xiyang Hu, Nicola Botta, Cezar Ionescu, George H. Chen
ECOD: Unsupervised Outlier Detection Using Empirical Cumulative Distribution Functions
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022.
(*equal contribution)
28. Yue Zhao, Zain Nasrullah, Zheng Li
PyOD: A Python Toolbox for Scalable Outlier Detection
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2019.
Peer-reviewed Conference & Workshop Papers (with proceedings)
27. Jaemin Yoo, Yue Zhao, Lingxiao Zhao, Leman Akoglu
DSV: Capturing Self-supervision Alignment for Unsupervised Outlier Model Selection
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery
in Databases (ECML/PKDD), 2023
26. Peng Xu, Lin Zhang, Xuanzhou Liu, Jiaqi Sun, Yue Zhao, Haiqin Yang, Bei Yu
Do Not Train It: A Linear Neural Architecture Search of Graph Neural Networks
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
25. Yue Zhao, Guoqing Zheng, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Robert McCann, Ahmed Awadallah
ADMoE: Anomaly Detection with Mixture-of-Experts from Noisy Labels
Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
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24. Yue Zhao, George H. Chen, Zhihao Jia
TOD: GPU-accelerated Outlier Detection via Tensor Operations
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2023
23. Songqiao Han*, Xiyang Hu*, Hailiang Huang*, Minqi Jiang*, Yue Zhao*
ADBench: Anomaly Detection Benchmark
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
(*equal contribution & the corresponding author)
22. Yue Zhao*, Kay Liu*, Yingtong Dou*, et al.
Benchmarking Node Outlier Detection on Graphs
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
(*equal contribution)
21. Yue Zhao, Xiaorong Zhang, Leman Akoglu
ELECT: Toward Unsupervised Outlier Model Selection
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2022.
Regular paper. Acceptance rate 9.77% (85/870); overall acceptance 20% (174/870).
20. Zhiming Xu, Xiao Huang, Yue Zhao, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li
Contrastive Attributed Network Anomaly Detection with Data Augmentation
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2022
Acceptance rate 19%.
19. Yue Zhao, Ryan A. Rossi, Leman Akoglu
Automatic Unsupervised Outlier Model Selection
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
Acceptance rate 26%.
18. Kwei-Herng Lai, Daochen Zha, Junjie Xu, Yue Zhao, Guanchu Wang, Xia Hu
Revisiting Time Series Outlier Detection: Definitions and Benchmarks
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
17. Kexin Huang*, Tianfan Fu*, Wenhao Gao*, Yue Zhao, Yusuf Roohani, Jure Leskovec, Connor
W. Coley, Cao Xiao, Jimeng Sun, Marinka Zitnik
Therapeutics Data Commons: Machine Learning Datasets and Tasks for Drug Discovery and
Development
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
(*equal contribution)
16. Yue Zhao*, Xiyang Hu*, Cheng Cheng, Cong Wang, Changlin Wan, Wen Wang, Jianing Yang,
Haoping Bai, Zheng Li, Cao Xiao, Yunlong Wang, Zhi Qiao, Jimeng Sun, Leman Akoglu
SUOD: Accelerating Large-scale Unsupervised Heterogeneous Outlier Detection
Conference on Machine and Learning Systems (MLSys), 2021.
Acceptance rate 23.5% (52/221). (*equal contribution)
15. Kwei-Herng Lai*, Daochen Zha*, Guanchu Wang, Junjie Xu, Yue Zhao, Devesh Kumar, Yile
Chen, Purav Zumkhawaka, Minyang Wan, Diego Martinez and Xia Ben Hu
TODS: An Automated Time Series Outlier Detection System (Demo paper)
Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021.
(*equal contribution)
14. Meng-Chieh Lee, Yue Zhao, Aluna Wang, Pierre Jinghong Liang, Leman Akoglu, Vincent S.
Tseng, Christos Faloutsos
AutoAudit: Mining Accounting and Time-Evolving Graphs
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2020
13. Changlin Wan, Dongya Jia, Yue Zhao, Wennan Chang, Sha Cao, Xiao Wang, and Chi Zhang
A Data Denoising Approach to Optimize Functional Clustering of Single Cell RNA-sequencing
Data
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2020
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12. Zheng Li, Yue Zhao, Nicola Botta, Cezar Ionescu, Xiyang Hu
COPOD: Copula-Based Outlier Detection
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2020.
11. Zheng Li, Yue Zhao, Jialin Fu
SYNC: A Copula based Framework for Generating Synthetic Data from Aggregated Sources
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2020.
10. Yiqun Mei, Yue Zhao, Wei Liang
DSR: An Accurate Single Image Super Resolution Approach for Various Degradations
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2020, London, UK.
9. Yue Zhao, Xuejian Wang*, Cheng Cheng*, Xueying Ding*
Combining Machine Learning Models and Scores using combo Library (Demo paper)
Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.
(*equal contribution)
8. Zain Nasrullah, Yue Zhao
Music Artist Classification with Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks
IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN ), 2019, Hungary.
7. Yue Zhao, Zain Nasrullah, Maciej K. Hryniewicki, Zheng Li
LSCP: Locally Selective Combination in Parallel Outlier Ensembles
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM ), 2019, Calgary, Canada.
Acceptance rate 22.7% (90/397).
6. Yue Zhao, Maciej K. Hryniewicki
XGBOD: Improving Supervised Outlier Detection with Unsupervised Representation Learning
IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN ), 2018, Rio, Brazil.
5. Yue Zhao, Maciej K. Hryniewicki, Francesca Cheng, Boyang Fu, Xiaoyu Zhu
Employee Turnover Prediction with Machine Learning: A Reliable Approach
Intelligent System Conference (Intellisys), 2018, London, UK.
Acceptance rate 34% (194/568).
4. Yue Zhao*, Zhongtian Qiu*, Yiqing Yang*, Weiwei Li*, Mingming Fan
An Empirical Study of Touch-based Authentication Methods on Smartwatches
ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC ), 2017, Maui, USA.
Acceptance rate 25.6% (23/90). (*equal contribution)
Peer-reviewed Workshop Papers (without proceedings)
3. Yue Zhao, Xueying Ding, Jianing Yang, and Haoping Bai.
SUOD: Toward Scalable Unsupervised Outlier Detection
Workshops at the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020.
Extended version published in MLSys 2021 .
2. Colin Wan, Zheng Li, Alicia Guo, Yue Zhao
SynC: A Unified Framework for Generating Synthetic Population with Gaussian Copula
Workshops at the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020.
Extended version published in ICDMW 2020 .
1. Yue Zhao, Maciej K. Hryniewicki
DCSO: Dynamic Combination of Detector Scores for Outlier Ensembles
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD
Workshop on Outlier Detection De-constructed ), 2018, London, UK.
Extended version published in SDM 2019, renamed to LSCP.
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/ Awards, Meta 2022 AI4AI Research Award (co-PI) $50,000 Oct. 2022
Grants, and The Norton Labs Graduate Fellowship $20,000 Mar. 2022
Funding CMU Presidential Fellowship $80,000 2019
Mitacs-Accelerate Research and Development Funding $30,000 2016-2017
University Global Award and Scholarship $32,000 2010-2015
Mantei/Mae Award & Scholar $40,000 2012-2015
Engineer of the Month (University of Cincinnati) Jun. 2014
Internship NortonLifeLock Research Group
Experience Machine Learning Research Intern 2022
• Supervised by Dr. Acar Tamersoy and Dr. Kevin Roundy.
Microsoft Research
Machine Learning Research Intern 2022
• Designed weakly supervised anomaly detection algorithms
• Supervised by Dr. Guoqing Zheng and Dr. Subhabrata (Subho) Mukherjee.
Stanford University, Computer Science Department
Visiting Student Researcher 2021
• Designed new GNN systems.
• Supervised by Prof. Jure Leskovec.
IQVIA, Analytics Center of Excellence
Machine Learning Research Intern 2020
• Designed new machine learning models in healthcare.
• Supervised by Dr. Cao (Danica) Xiao (IQVIA) and Prof. Jimeng Sun (UIUC).
Siemens PLM Software USA
Software Engineer (Intern & Contract) Mar. 2012 - Dec. 2014
• Managed a Java project to transition the LabManager system to vCloud Director.
• Refactored outdated automation code and added new modules and JUnit test cases.
• Led a C++ Code Coverage project on Teamcenter platform to strengthen its stability.
Teaching Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Experience Teaching Assistant Fall 2022
Managing Digital Business (Prof. David Riel)
Teaching Assistant & co-Instructor (lectures on AutoML and MLSys) Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant & co-Instructor (lectures on AutoML and MLSys) Fall 2021
Teaching Assistant & co-Instructor (lectures on AutoML) Spring 2021
Teaching Assistant & co-Instructor (lectures on AutoML) Fall 2020
Intro to Artificial Intelligence (Prof. David Steier)
Teaching Assistant Spring 2022
Digital Transformation (Prof. David Riel)
Teaching Assistant (helping on course topics) Fall 2021
Statistics for IT Managers (Prof. Daniel Nagin)
University of Toronto Toronto, ON
Teaching Assistant & Lab Session Instructor Fall 2015
Embedded Systems (Prof. Philip Anderson)
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH
Teaching Assistant & Lab Session Instructor Fall 2014
Intro to Programming (Prof. George Purdy)
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Services Conference Organizing Committee
• Workflow Co-Chair for KDD 2023
External Reviewer for Funding Proposals
• Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Program Committee and/or Reviewer for Conferences and Workshops
• KDD 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• IJCAI 2022, 2023
• NeurIPS 2021, 2022, 2023
• AAAI 2021, 2022, 2023
• AAAI Demonstrations 2021, 2022
• MICCAI 2020, 2021, 2022
• ICDM 2020
• KDD Workshop on Outlier Detection and Description (ODD), 2021
• KDD Workshop on Anomaly and Novelty Detection (ANDEA), 2021, 2022
• IJCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Anomalies and Novelties (AI4AN), 2020, 2021
• INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2021
Journal Reviewer
• Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
• Machine Learning
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC)
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMAI)
• ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
• Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)
• INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC)
• Big Data
• Artificial Intelligence Review (AIRE)
• Neurocomputing
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
• IEEE Network Magazine
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM)
• BioData Mining
• European Journal of Management and Business Economics (EJMBE)
• The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
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Talks and CMU Catalyst How (Not) to Fail Your AP Job Search May. 2023
Lectures KAUST Automated and Scalable ML Algorithms and Systems Apr. 2023
Emory University Automated and Scalable ML Algorithms and Systems Apr. 2023
USC Automated and Scalable ML Algorithms and Systems Mar. 2023
UC Davis Automated and Scalable ML Algorithms and Systems Mar. 2023
Stony Brook University Automated and Scalable ML Algorithms and Systems Feb. 2023
University of Chicago Automated and Scalable ML Algorithms and Systems Feb. 2023
UC Merced Automated and Scalable ML Algorithms and Systems Feb. 2023
CMU PDL Meeting Automated and Scalable ML Algorithms and Systems Jan. 2023
CMU Data Science Seminar Guest Lecture Automated Anomaly Detection Nov. 2022
LoG Seminar Large-scale Graph Anomaly Detection Oct. 2022
Intuit Anomaly Detection for Financial Risk Modeling Aug. 2022
Rice University Large-scale Anomaly Detection with Automation Sep. 2022
Microsoft Research Weakly-supervised Anomaly Detection Sep. 2022
Wells Fargo Anomaly Detection for Financial Risk Modeling Aug. 2022
Columbia University Guest Lecture Anomaly Detection Jul. 2022
Morgan Stanley Automated Outlier Detection Jun. 2022
Microsoft Research Automated Outlier Detection Jun. 2022
Morgan Stanley Large-scale Anomaly Detection Systems Mar. 2022
Rutgers Business School Outlier Model Selection Mar. 2022
Tesla Large-scale Anomaly Detection Systems Feb. 2022
Catalyst, CMU Systems for Data Mining Algorithms Dec. 2021
E&Y Canada ML applications in Data Analytics Oct. 2021
University of Nottingham General Machine Learning Applications Jan. 2021
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