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Lijing Zhu

Lijing Zhu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Data Science,
College of Science and Engineering

Contact number: 281-283-3880
Email: zhul@uhcl.edu
Office: Delta 167

Biography

Dr. Lijing Zhu earned her Ph.D. in Data Science from Bowling Green State University in August 2025. Her research focuses on machine learning, graph-based deep learning, continual graph learning, and computer vision. She has published in leading venues such as ECML PKDD, CIKM, and IEEE Big Data.

Curriculum Vitae


Areas of Expertise

  • Continual Knowledge Graph Learning
  • Human-Object Interaction Detection
  • Graph Representation Learning
  • Natural Language Processing


Publications

  • ETT-CKGE: Efficient Task-driven Tokens for Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding (Accepted by ECML PKDD 2025);
  • Leveraging Vulnerabilities in Temporal Graph Neural Networks via Strategic High-Impact Assaults (Accepted by CIKM 2025)
  • E2CB2former: Effecitve and Explainable Transformer for CB2 Receptor Ligand Activity Prediction (Accepted by IJCNN 2025)
  • CIBR: Cross-modal Information Bottleneck Regularization for Robust CLIP Generalization (Accepted by ICANN 2025)
  • Flexible memory rotation (fmr): Rotated representation with dynamic regularization to overcome catastrophic forgetting in continual knowledge graph learning (Accepted by IEEE Big Data 2024)
  • Hgtdp-dta: Hybrid graph-transformer with dynamic prompt for drug-target binding affinity prediction (Accepted by ICONIP 2024)
  • SKGHOI: Spatial-Semantic Knowledge Graph for Human-Object Interaction Detection (Accepted by ICDM Workshop)


Courses (Current Academic Year)

  • DASC 5133 Introduction to Data Science
  • DASC 5333 Database Systems for Data Science
  • DASC 5431 Data Analytics and Machine Learning