Description: A comprehensive text on foundations and techniques of graph neural networks with applications in NLP, data mining, vision and healthcare.
Brief description: Yao Ma is a PhD student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU). He is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award and FAST Fellowship at MSU. He has published papers in top conferences such as WSDM, ICDM, SDM, WWW, IJCAI, SIGIR and KDD, which have been cited hundreds of times. He is the leading organizer and presenter of tutorials on GNNs at AAAI'20, KDD'20 and AAAI'21, which received huge attention and wide acclaim. He has served as Program Committee Members/Reviewers in many well-known conferences and magazines such as AAAI, BigData, IJCAI, TWEB, TKDD and TPAMI.
Review Quotes: 'This timely book covers a combination of two active research areas in AI: deep learning and graphs. It serves the pressing need for researchers, practitioners, and students to learn these concepts and algorithms, and apply them in solving real-world problems. Both authors are world-leading experts in this emerging area.' Huan Liu, Arizona State University