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General Information
| Full Name | Sijing Tu |
| sijingtu@stanford.edu | |
| Website | sijingtu.github.io |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5976-1993 |
| Google Scholar | l5CpWtIAAAAJ |
| Affiliation | Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering |
Education
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2025 Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Thesis: Models and Algorithms for Addressing Challenges in Online Social Networks- Advisor: Aristides Gionis
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2020 M.Sc. in Machine Learning, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence
Aalto University, Finland -
2015 B.Eng. in Information Security
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Research Experience
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Jun - Dec 2025 Research Engineer
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Advisor: Aristides Gionis
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Feb 2026 - Postdoc Researcher
Stanford University, USA - Funded by The Wallenberg - Bienenstock Postdoctoral Fellowship Program; Advisor: Ashish Goel
Research Visits
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june - july 2024 University of Padova, Italy
- Host: Leonardo Pellegrina
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May - July 2022 University of Ioannina, Greece
- Host: Panayiotis Tsaparas
Presentations and Seminars
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2024 80% Seminar at KTH
- Title: Algorithmic Approaches to Online Social Network Challenges
- Opponent: Ioana O. Bercea, KTH
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2024 Seminar at University of Padova
- Title: Algorithmic Approaches to Online Social Network Challenges
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2023 KDD, conference presentation
- Title: Adversaries with Limited Information in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model
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2022 The Web Conference, conference presentation (virtual event)
- Title: A Viral Marketing-Based Model For Opinion Dynamics in Online Social Networks
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2022 50% Seminar at KTH
- Title: Combating Bias and Polarization in Social Networks
- Opponent: Tijl De Bie, Ghent University
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2021 Data Science Seminar at KTH
- Title: Co-exposure Maximization in Online Social Networks
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2020 NeurIPS, conference poster session (virtual event)
- Title: Co-exposure Maximization in Online Social Networks
Program Committees
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2025 - Webconf'26
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2024 - KDD'24
- ACML'24
- SDM'25
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2023 - KDD'23
- SDM'24
Journal and Conference Reviewer
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2026 - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
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2025 - Transactions on the Web
- Network Science
- SODA'25 (subreviewer)
- IEEE Transactions on Networking
- Frontiers of Computer Science
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2023 - Online Social Networks and Media
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2022 - ICDM (subreviewer)
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2021 - WSDM (subreviewer)
- The Webconf (subreviewer)
Other Research Activities
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2024 Aarhus Summer School on Learning Theory, Aarhus University
- August 19-22
- Website: conferences.au.dk/asslt
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2023 ECMLPKDD'23, PhD Forum, Torino
- September 18-22
- Poster: Adversaries with Limited Information in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model
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2023 23rd Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science, Saarbrucken
- August 21-25
- Topic: Algorithmic Foundations of Data Analysis
- Website: conferences.mpi-inf.mpg.de/adfocs-23/
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2022 Swedish Summer School in Computer Science, KTH
- June 26-July 2
- Topics: The Method of Moments in Computer Science and Beyond (Ankur Moitra); Polyhedral Techniques in Combinatorial Optimization (Ola Svensson)
- Website: s3cs.eecs.kth.se
Teaching Assistant
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2022 - 2024 Machine Learning, Advanced Course
KTH (master's level) - Responsibilities included proposing new problems, conducting Q&A sessions, and grading assignments and project reports.
- Teaching commitment: 80-120 academic hours.
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2021 - 2023 Advanced Algorithms
KTH (master's level) - Responsibilities included holding exercise sessions, grading assignments, and evaluating project reports.
- Teaching commitment: 80-120 academic hours.
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2021 - 2022 Algorithms and Complexity
KTH (master's level) - Responsibilities included holding exercise sessions and grading assignments.
- Teaching commitment: 80 academic hours.