Jiawei Sheng is a Tenure-Track Associate Professor at Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS), and was selected into the IIE Outstanding Talent Program (Class B).

His research has led to over 30 publications in CCF-A/B-ranked top-tier international conferences and journals. As team leader, he secured first place and the Technical Innovation Award in the evaluation tasks of the China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing (CCKS) in both 2021 and 2022. At the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), he teaches the graduate core course Cross-Modal Intelligent Computing and Its Applications. He also serves as a reviewer or senior reviewer for more than ten leading international conferences and journals.

盛傢伟，预聘副研、硕导，2023年博士毕业，入选信工所优才计划B、博士后国资计划。 主要研究兴趣包括知识表征、图学习、内容分析、智能体应用等。 总计在CCF-A/B类国际顶级刊会发表论文40余篇，谷歌学术被引1400余次，获ESI高被引1篇。 主持/参与国自然基金青年项目C/面上、国家重点研发、中科院先导、快手校企合作等项目，主持经费近300万。 带队在全国学术会议CCKS 2020、2021技术评测中2次获全国冠军及技术创新奖。 担任国科大《跨模态智能计算及其应用》研究生核心课主讲。 长期担任10余个国际顶级学术会议或期刊审稿人，授权或受理专利10项。

Research Interests

His primary research interests lie in knowledge representation & reasoning, large language models, and knowledge-driven applications, with a focus on bridging the following areas:

• Representation: GNNs, information-theoretic representations, diffusion models, etc.
• Fusion: entity alignment, multimodal learning, cross-domain transfer, etc.
• Reasoning: knowledge graph reasoning, LLM-based reasoning, etc.
• Applications: agent memory, recommendation, neuro-symbolic AI, etc.

His vision is to establish knowledge-driven trustworthy AI that integrates neural and symbolic approaches to benefit humanity and research community. He always welcomes collaborations to do impactful research. Please feel free to contact him and discuss any matters of interest. :-)

Education

• Jul. 2023 – Present​: Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Tenure-Track Associate Professor.
• ​Sep. 2018 – Jun. 2023​: ​Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences​. Ph.D. Candidate in Natural Language Processing.
• ​Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2018​: ​Jilin University​. ​B.S.​​ in Computer Science and Technology.

Projects

• National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project. PI. Research on Cross-domain Knowledge Graph Completion. 2025.1 - 2027.12. ¥300k.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Grade C). PI. Research on Knowledge Discovery Based on Cross-domain Modeling. 2023.07 - 2025.07. ¥600,000 (including ¥360k from CAS).
• Special Research Assistant Project of CAS (Talent Program Class B). PI. 2023.07 - 2026.07. ¥800k.
• Kwai School-enterprise Cooperation Project. PI. 2024.8 - 2025.6. ¥500k.
• R&D Sub-program. PI. Specific Account Recognition Technology. 2025.01-2027.12. ¥600k.
• R&D, Co-I. Research on KG Construction Theory. 2021.12-2024.11.
• SPRP CAS, Co-I. Research on KG Construtcion and Utilization. 2019.08-2021.12.

Selected Papers

• Conditional Diffusion Guided Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Domain Knowledge Graph Completion.
  Jiawei Sheng, Taoyu Su, Xixun Lin, Xiaodong Li and Tingwen Liu. In Proceedings of WWW 2026. (CCF-A, oral 9.4%)

• Information-Theoretic Minimal Sufficient Representation for Multi-Domain Knowledge Graph Completion.
  Jiawei Sheng, Taoyu Su, Weiyi Yang, Linghui Wang, Yongxiu Xu, Tingwen Liu. In Proceedings of AAAI 2026. (CCF-A, oral 4.6%)

• Mitigating Modality Bias in Multi-modal Entity Alignment from a Causal Perspective.
  Taoyu Su, Jiawei Sheng*, Duohe Ma, Xiaodong Li, Juwei Yue, Mengxiao Song, Yingkai Tang and Tingwen Liu. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2025. (CCF-A)

• Exploring Preference-Guided Diffusion Model for Cross-Domain Recommendation.
  Xiaodong Li, Hengzhu Tang, Jiawei Sheng*, Xinghua Zhang, Li Gao, Suqi Cheng, Dawei Yin, Tingwen Liu. In Proceedings of KDD 2025. (CCF-A)

• Hyperbolic GNN: Spectral Graph Neural Networks in the Perspective of A System of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations.
  Juwei Yue, Haikuo Li, Jiawei Sheng*, Xiaodong Li, Taoyu Su, Tingwen Liu, Li Guo. In Proceedings of ICML 2025. (CCF-A)

• Graph Wave Networks.
  Juwei Yue, Haikuo Li, Jiawei Sheng*, Yihan Guo, Xinghua Zhang, Chuan Zhou, Tingwen Liu*, Li Guo. In Proceedings of WWW 2025. (CCF-A)

• IBMEA: Exploring Variational Information Bottleneck for Multi-modal Entity Alignment.
  Taoyu Su, Jiawei Sheng*, Shicheng Wang, Xinghua Zhang, Hongbo Xu, Tingwen Liu. In Proceedings of ACM MM 2024. (CCF-A)

• CorED: Incorporating Type-level and Instance-level Correlations for Fine-grained Event Detection.
  Jiawei Sheng, Rui Sun, Shu Guo, Shiyao Cui, Jiangxia Cao, Lihong Wang, Tingwen Liu and Hongbo Xu. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2022. (CCF-A)

• CasEE: A Joint Learning Framework with Cascade Decoding for Overlapping Event Extraction.
  Jiawei Sheng, Shu Guo, Bowen Yu, Qian Li, Yiming Hei, Lihong Wang, Tingwen Liu, Hongbo Xu. In Findings of ACL 2021. (CCF-A)

• Adaptive Attentional Network for Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion.
  Jiawei Sheng, Shu Guo, Zhenyu Chen, Juwei Yue, Lihong Wang, Tingwen Liu, Hongbo Xu. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2020. (CCF-B)

Presentations

• Session Chair & Speaker, Data Mining and Knowledge Management 5, “Information-Theoretic Minimal Sufficient Representation for Multi-Domain Knowledge Graph Completion”, Proceedings of AAAI 2026, Singapore, January 20 – January 27, 2026.

• Speaker, “Calibrating Pseudo-Labeling with Class Distribution for Semi-supervised Text Classification”, Proceedings of EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, November 4 - November 9, 2025.

• Speaker, “IBMEA: Exploring Variational Information Bottleneck for Multi-modal Entity Alignment”, Proceedings of ACM MM 2024, Melbourne, Australia, October 28 – November 1, 2024.

• Speaker, “Uncertain Relational Hypergraph Attention Networks for Document-level Event Factuality Identification”, Proceedings of ECAI 2023, Kraków, Poland, September 30 – October 4, 2023.

Competitions

• CCKS 2021: Fine-grained Event Detection Competition, Rank 1/253 (Team leader)
• CCKS 2020: Few-shot Cross-domain Event Extraction Competition, Rank: 1/391 (Team leader)

Selected Awards

• The Top 1 Winner of CCKS 2021 Competition: Fine-grained Event Detection Competition, Chinese Information Processing Society of China. 2021.
• The Technological Innovation Award of CCKS 2021 Competition: Fine-grained Event Detection Competition, Chinese Information Processing Society of China. 2021.
• The Top 1 Winner of CCKS 2020 Competition: Few-shot Cross-domain Event Extraction Competition, Chinese Information Processing Society of China. 2020.
• The Technological Innovation Award of CCKS 2020 Competition: Few-shot Cross-domain Event Extraction Competition, Chinese Information Processing Society of China. 2020.
• The Zhuli Yuehua outstanding doctoral scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences at 2022.
• Outstanding Graduate Award of Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences at 2023.
• Academic Scholarship, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Outstanding Student Award, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Recipient of the Inspur Scholarship at 2016.

Advised Students

He feels great honour to advise the following talented students.

• PhD Students (w/ Prof. Liu)
  • 2021: Xiaodong Li (RecSys)
  • 2022: Juwei Yue (Graph ML)
  • 2022: Zefeng Zhang (MLLM)
  • 2023: Ruochen Yang (RecSys)
  • 2023: Yao Chen (LLM)
  • 2024: Shuaiyi Nie (LLM)
  • 2025: Simeng Zhang (LLM)
• Master Students (w/ Prof. Liu)
  • 2021: Gehang Zhang (Graph ML)
  • 2023: Linghui Wang (KG)
  • 2025: Shibo Ban (LLM)

Academic Services

• Conference PC member: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, ACL, WWW, MM, AAAI, etc.
• Conference AC/SPC: ACL/ARR, IJCAI, CCL, etc.
• Journal Reviewer: TKDE, TOIS, etc.