Monica Cheng

Monica Cheng

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Monica Cheng

Amazon, Palo Alto, CA, USA

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Academic Career Length

17Years (2010-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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4 August 2023
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EDEnyan Dai
Enyan Dai
LCLimeng Cui
Limeng Cui
ZWZhengyang Wang
Zhengyang Wang
XTXianfeng Tang
Xianfeng Tang
YWYinghan Wang
Yinghan Wang
SWSuhang Wang
Suhang Wang
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in modeling graph-structured data. However, recent works show that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks which can fool the GNN model to make desired predictions of the attacker. In addition, training data of GNNs can be leaked under membership inference attacks. This largely hinders the adoption of GNNs in high-stake domains such as e-commerce, finance and bioinformatics. Though investigations have been made in conducting robust predictions and protecting membership privacy, they generally fail to simultaneously consider the robustness and membership privacy. Therefore, in this work, we study a novel problem of developing robust and membership privacy-preserving GNNs. Our analysis shows that Information Bottleneck (IB) can help filter out noisy information and regularize the predictions on labeled samples, which can benefit robustness and membership privacy. However, structural noises and lack of labels in node classification challenge the deployment of IB on graph-structured data. To mitigate these issues, we propose a novel graph information bottleneck framework that can alleviate structural noises with neighbor bottleneck. Pseudo labels are also incorporated in the optimization to minimize the gap between the predictions on the labeled set and unlabeled set for membership privacy. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our method can give robust predictions and simultaneously preserve membership privacy.

1 July 2010 in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
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SZSuqin Zheng
Suqin Zheng
OCOscar W. Cummings
Oscar W. Cummings
RSRomil Saxena
Romil Saxena
SZShaobo Zhang
Shaobo Zhang
MWMingsheng Wang
Mingsheng Wang
Liang ChengLiang Cheng
Liang Cheng
Focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) is considered a benign tumor of the liver. However, the biologic nature and clonality status of FNH are not well esta

4 August 2023
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YWYu Wang
Yu Wang
ZWZhengyang Wang
Zhengyang Wang
HZHengrui Zhang
Hengrui Zhang
QYQingyu Yin
Qingyu Yin
XTXianfeng Tang
Xianfeng Tang
PYPhilip S. Yu
Philip S. Yu
Aiming at a better understanding of the search goals in the user search sessions, recent query recommender systems explicitly model the reformulations of queries, which hopes to estimate the intents behind these reformulations and thus benefit the next-query recommendation. However, in real-world e-commercial search scenarios, user intents are much more complicated and may evolve dynamically. Existing methods merely consider trivial reformulation intents from semantic aspects and fail to model dynamic reformulation intent flows in search sessions, leading to sub-optimal capacities to recommend desired queries. To deal with these limitations, we first explicitly define six types of query reformulation intents according to the desired products of two consecutive queries. We then apply two self-attentive encoders on top of two pre-trained large language models to learn the transition dynamics from semantic query and intent reformulation sequences, respectively. We develop an intent-aware query decoder to utilize the predicted intents for suggesting the next queries. We instantiate such a framework with an Intent-aware Variational AutoEncoder (IVAE) under deployment at Amazon. We conduct comprehensive experiments on two real-world e-commercial datasets from Amazon and one public dataset from BestBuy. Specifically, IVAE improves the Recall@15 by 25.44% and 60.47% on two Amazon datasets and 13.91% on BestBuy, respectively.

19 July 2026
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CLChen Luo
Chen Luo
JCJason Choi
Jason Choi
ZDZiwei Dong
Ziwei Dong
RDRahul Dua
Rahul Dua
CXCong Xu
Cong Xu
MCMonica Cheng
Monica Cheng

8 May 2025
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HHHaoyu Han
Haoyu Han
XTXianfeng Tang
Xianfeng Tang
JHJing Huang
Jing Huang
MCMonica Cheng
Monica Cheng
OAOmar Alonso
Omar Alonso
JTJiliang Tang
Jiliang Tang

27 September 2026
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CLChen Luo
Chen Luo
YLYulin Liu
Yulin Liu
YLYi Liu
Yi Liu
XLXuejing Lei
Xuejing Lei
YYYuchen Yan
Yuchen Yan
MCMonica Cheng
Monica Cheng