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Graph Theory and Algorithms

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Chengxuan Ying
Dalian University of Technology
2
Daniele Grattarola
Università della Svizzera italiana
3
Hongyang Gao
First Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University
4
Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling
Google (United States)
5
Shima Khoshraftar
York University
6
Runzhong Wang
Suzhou Research Institute
7
Shunxin Xiao
Xiamen University of Technology
8
Anbarasu Aladiyan
Unknown
9
Chuang Liu
Hubei Normal University
10
James Jie Pan
Tsinghua University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Efficient Data Structures and Algorithms for Cloud Computing Platforms
Unknown Journal|2024
135 cit.
2
Survey of vector database management systems
The VLDB Journal|2024
126 cit.
3
Vector Database Management Techniques and Systems
Unknown Journal|2024
47 cit.
4
Efficient CO2 Photoreduction into Solar Fuels over MoO3−x/COF S-Scheme Photocatalyst
Chemical Research in Chinese Universities|2025
26 cit.
5
Exploring sparsity in graph transformers
Neural Networks|2024
10 cit.
6
OpenEval: Benchmarking Chinese LLMs across Capability, Alignment and Safety
Unknown Journal|2024
5 cit.
7
Tuning the geometry, composition, and optical chirality of chiral Au nanorods for asymmetric nanocatalysis
Nano Research|2025
5 cit.
8
Multi-Relation Augmentation for Graph Neural Networks
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence|2024
4 cit.
9
Transcriptome-associated metabolomics reveals the molecular mechanism of flavonoid biosynthesis in Desmodium styracifolium (Osbeck.) Merr under abiotic stress
Frontiers in Plant Science|2024
4 cit.
10
Enhancing transparency in buyer-driven commodity chains for complex products: a blockchain-based traceability framework demonstrated through an apparel supply chain simulation
Procedia Computer Science|2025
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jiliang Tang
Guangxi University
2
Hyunwoo J. Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
3
Andrés Taylor
Unknown
4
Hao Tang
Hainan University
5
JC Mao
Microsoft (United States)
6
Marco Podda
University of Pisa
7
Semih Salihoğlu
University of Waterloo
8
Alex Wiltschko
Unknown
9
Lele Yu
Peking University
10
Xiaojie Guo
Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Trustworthy AI: A Computational Perspective
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology|2022
221 cit.
2
Graph Neural Networks: Foundation, Frontiers and Applications
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining|2022
199 cit.
3
Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models (LLMs)in Learning on Graphs
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter|2024
162 cit.
4
Self-Positioning Point-Based Transformer for Point Cloud Understanding
Unknown Journal|2023
116 cit.
5
Graph Transformer Networks: Learning meta-path graphs to improve GNNs
Neural Networks|2022
100 cit.
6
The Good and The Bad: Exploring Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Unknown Journal|2024
75 cit.
7
AI for Education (AI4EDU): Advancing Personalized Education with LLM and Adaptive Learning
Unknown Journal|2024
57 cit.
8
Read-only Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language Few-shot Learning
Unknown Journal|2023
51 cit.
9
EfficientViM: Efficient Vision Mamba with Hidden State Mixer based State Space Duality
Unknown Journal|2025
42 cit.
10
Distribution-Aware Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
Unknown Journal|2023
38 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Gabriele Monfardini
Politecnico di Milano
2
Christos Faloutsos
University of Toronto
3
Pierre Vandergheynst
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
4
Ion Stoica
University of California, Berkeley
5
Edwin R. Hancock
University of York
6
Robert E. Tarjan
Princeton University
7
Carlos Guestrin
University of Washington
8
Mario Vento
University of Salerno
9
M. Vento
University of Salerno
10
Jiawei Han
Zhengzhou University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Data mining: concepts and techniques
Choice Reviews Online|2012
28.9k cit.
2
"Why Should I Trust You?"
Unknown Journal|2016
15.2k cit.
3
Chord
Unknown Journal|2001
9.7k cit.
4
The Graph Neural Network Model
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks|2008
9.3k cit.
5
Mining frequent patterns without candidate generation
ACM SIGMOD Record|2000
6.4k cit.
6
Depth-First Search and Linear Graph Algorithms
SIAM Journal on Computing|1972
6k cit.
7
“Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier
Unknown Journal|2016
5.2k cit.
8
The emerging field of signal processing on graphs: Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine|2013
4.4k cit.
9
On power-law relationships of the Internet topology
Unknown Journal|1999
4.3k cit.
10
Spark: cluster computing with working sets
Unknown Journal|2010
4.2k cit.

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