About Me

Hello, I’m Qi Cao (曹婍), an associate professor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I recerved my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Guojie Li and Prof. Huawei Shen in 2020. Before that, I received my B.S. degree from Renmin University of China in 2015.

Research Interest

Trustworthy Recommender Systems
- Robustness and fairness in RS
- Algorithm auditing in RS
Social Media Computing and Mining
- Information diffusion prediction
- Network representation learning

07/2025 Our paper Robust Recommender System: A Survey and Future Directions is accepted by ACM Computing Surveys.
5/2025 We hold the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered Recommender Systems on the WebConf 2025.
04/2025 Our paper "I Know You Are Discriminatory!: Automated Substantiating for Individual Fairness Auditing of AI Systems" is accepted by CSCW 2025.
01/2025 Our paper Personalized Denoising Implicit Feedback for Robust Recommender System is accepted by the WebConf 2025.
09/2024 Our paper Understanding and Improving Adversarial Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendation is accepted by the NeurIPS 2024.
09/2024 Our paper PKAD: Pretrained Knowledge is All You Need to Detect and Mitigate Textual Backdoor Attacks is accepted by the EMNLP 2024.

More publications please refer here

2025, The ACM Web Conference 2025 Rising Stars of Women in Web Award (runner-up)
2023, Outstanding Researchers of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2021, Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination
2020, IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (IEEE BigComp) Best Paper Award (2nd Place)
2020, President Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2019, Special Award for the Director of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018, National Conference of Social Media Processing (SMP) Best Report Award

Program Committee Members for Conference：KDD, WWW, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM
Reviewers for Journals: TOIS, TKDE, TKDD, CSCW, TIST