Mingxuan Sun
Associate Professor
3272S Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225 578 2882
msun11@lsu.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 2012
M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2006
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2004
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, and Data Mining
Teaching Responsibilities
CSC 3730: Machine learning and Data Analytics
CSC 4402: Introduction to Database Management Systems
Selected Publications
Jin Shang, Mingxuan Sun, and Nina Lam, List-wise fairness criterion for point processes,
in Proc. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Aug.
2020.
Zihan Zhou, Mingxuan Sun, and Jianhua Chen, A model-agnostic approach for explaining
the predictions on clustered data, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Data
Mining (ICDM), Nov. 2019.
Jin Shang and Mingxuan Sun, Geometric Hawkes processes with graph convolutional recurrent
neural networks, in Proc. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Jan.
2019.
Jin Shang and Mingxuan Sun, Local low-rank Hawkes processes for temporal user-item
interactions, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Singapore,
Nov. 2018.
Jin Shang, Mingxuan Sun, and Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Demographic inference via knowledge
transfer in cross-domain recommender systems, in Proc. IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining (ICDM), Singapore, Nov. 2018.
Awards and Honors
NSF CAREER Award, 2020
LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award, 2021