Hi, my name is

Yutong Xia

PhD student @ NUS

Hi! I am Xia Yutong, currently a third-year Ph.D. student in Data Science at Institute of Data Science (IDS), National University of Singapore (NUS), supervised by Prof. Roger Zimmermann. Before that, I obtained my master’s degree in Smart Cities and Urban Analytics from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London (UCL), with a distinction in Dec. 2021, supervised by Dr Huanfa Chen.

My research interests lie in spatio-temporal data mining, urban computing, causal inference and time series analysis. Recently, I have been dedicated to harnessing the power of spatio-temporal data with causal AI techniques.

Feel free to reach me by email: yutong.x@outlook.com.

News

[Dec. 2024] Two papers about graph data augmentation and air quality inferrence were accepted by AAAI'25.
[Nov. 2024] Calling for papers! We are organizing WebST Workshop 2025 - Spatio-Temporal Data Mining from the Web at WWW'25. We are calling for submissions (4-8 pages).
[Nov. 2024] One paper about ST forecasting was accepted by KDD'25 ADS Track.
[Oct. 2024] I started my visit at JTL Urban Mobility Lab @ MIT, supervised by Prof. Jinhua Zhao.
[May. 2024] One paper about large-scale delivery dataset was accepted by KDD'24 ADS track.
[May. 2024] Two papers about Singapore parking dataset and spatio-temporal field neural network were accepted by IJCAI'24 AI for Social Good track.
[Jan. 2024] I was honored to receive the NUS SoC Research Achievement Award. Thanks Prof. Roger for the supports!!
[Sept. 2023] One paper about spatio-temporal causal inference was accepted by NeurIPS'23.
[Sept. 2023] One large-scale traffic benchmark was accepted by NeurIPS'23 DB Track.
[Sept. 2023] I was honored to receive the NUSGS Research Incentive Award!
[Sept. 2023] One paper about spatio-temporal diffusion model was accepted by SIGSPATIAL'23.
[Jan. 2023] I will attend AAAI'23 at Washington DC in person ✈️. (It is my first time attending a conference!! XD)
[Nov. 2022] One paper about large-scale air quality prediction using Transformers was accepted by AAAI'23 as an oral presentation.
[Aug. 2022] One paper about travel mode choice prediction was accepted by Travel Behaviour and Society.
[Aug. 2022] One paper about accessibility equality was accepted by Sustainable Cities and Society.
[Jan. 2022] I started my Ph.D. candidature at National University of Singapore.
[Dec. 2021] I graduated from University College London and obtained my master’s degree with a distinction.

Community Services

  • Organizer: WebST@WWW-25 (Publicity Chair)
  • PC Member & Reviewer: ICML-25, ICLR-25, AISTATS-25, NeurIPS-24, WWW-23, ECML-23
  • Journal Reviewer: Neurocomputing, IJGIS, Scientific Reports

Professional Experience

Visiting Ph.D. Student - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Oct 2024 - present
I am currently visiting at JTL Urban Mobility Lab at MIT, supervised by Prof. Jinhua Zhao.