^ Our Team ^^ |''Topics''|KG, DB, AI4SE| |''Office''|Rm. 405, CS Bldg.| |''Website''|[[http://ws.nju.edu.cn|Websoft research group]]| |''E-mail''|[[whu@nju.edu.cn]]| ===== Introduction ===== **Knowledge Graph** (KG) is a programmatic way to model a knowledge domain with the help of subject-matter experts, data interlinking, and machine learning algorithms. Since 2002, our research team has been researching on the knowledge graph technologies, together with the community. //We are always looking for highly-motivated and hard-working students.// Welcome to contact us for further details! ===== News ===== - **2026-07-17.** Paper was accepted in ISWC 2026 (research track). - **2026-05-22.** Yuhan Wu and Zhoutian Shao passed master's thesis oral defense! - **2026-05-01.** Paper was accepted in IJCAI 2026. - **2026-04-16.** Paper was directly accepted in ISSTA 2026. - **2026-04-06.** Three papers were accepted in ACL 2026 (one main conference and two findings). - **2026-02-02.** Xinyi Wang and Jianhao Chen passed PhD's thesis oral defense! - **2026-02-02.** Full paper was accepted in DASFAA 2026. - **2025-12-26.** Paper was accepted in ICPC 2026. - **2025-11-08.** Three papers were accepted in AAAI 2026. - **2025-11-04.** ISWC 2025 paper received Resource Track Spotlight. - **2025-10-09.** Jiangsu standard "Requirements for interface and data transmission of diabetes health medical data" was accepted. - **2025-09-10.** Jingyue Yang was awarded Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Nanjing University. - **2025-08-24.** Paper was accepted in SIGMOD 2026 (Round 2). - **2025-08-21.** Xiangrong Zhu passed PhD's thesis oral defense! - **2025-08-21.** Two papers were accepted in EMNLP 2025 findings. ===== Members ===== * **Supervisors**: * [[http://ws.nju.edu.cn/~whu|Wei Hu]] (Prof.) * [[https://sunzequn.github.io/|Zequn Sun]] (Postdoc $\to$ Asst. Prof.) * **PhD candidates**: * 2021: Yang Liu * 2022: Yi Liu, Xiangyu Liu * 2023: Wei Cheng, Huan Zhang * 2024: Ziqi Wang * 2025: Jingyue Yang * 2026: Yuan Feng, Shuo Shen * **MSE candidates**: * 2024: Chen Shen, Jingzhe Zhang, Rongzhi Zhu * 2025: Kuangyu Meng, Xiaohui Zhang, Chengyuan Yang, Wei Wei * 2026: Qianxi Xu, Changjun Shi, Xinhang Liu, Yangxi Shi, Jun Ji * ** Alumni**: * PhDs: * Saisai Gong (2019) * Jiwei Ding (2022) * [[https://sunzequn.github.io/|Zequn Sun]] (2023) * Jiacheng Huang (2023) * [[https://faculty.nuist.edu.cn/yncui/zh_CN/index.htm|Yuanning Cui]] (2025) * Xiangrong Zhu (2025) * Xinyi Wang (2026) * Jianhao Chen (2026) * MSEs: * Hang Zhang (2013), Chuanlei Ni (2014), Cunxin Jia (2015) * Chengyue Jiang (2016), Honglei Qiu (2017), Hao Zhang (2018) * Haoxuan Li (2019), [[https://guolingbing.github.io/|Lingbing Guo]] (2019), Jiacheng Huang (2019) * Ermei Cao (2020), Qingheng Zhang (2020), Xinze Lyu (2020) * Difeng Wang (2021), Shengguang Qiu (2021), Chengming Wang (2021) * Yao Zhao (2022), Wenzheng Sui (2022), Fengning Gao (2022), Kailong Hao (2022) * Yuxin Wang (2023), Botao Yu (2023), Guangyao Li (2023) * Wenzheng Zhao (2024), Honghu Wu (2024) * Zitao Wang (2025), Xiaobin Tian (2025), Xindi Luo (2025) * Yuhan Wu (2026), Zhoutian Shao (2026)