Harry Shomer

I’m a final year PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. I am advised by Dr. Jiliang Tang in the DSE Lab. Before joining MSU, I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science at CUNY – Brooklyn College. I will be joining the CSE Department at UT Arlington as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall’25! My work has been published at top conference including NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, EMNLP, TheWebConf, ACL, and CIKM. I have also received numerous awards including the MSU Engineering Distinguished (EDS) fellowship and the NRT-IMPACTS fellowship.
[Recruitment] I am looking to recruit PhD students for Spring’26 and Fall’26. Please email me some basic information about yourself (CV, why you want to work with me, etc.) if you’re interested.
Research Interests:
- Machine Learning on Graphs
- Trustworthy AI
- AI4Education
News
May 16, 2025 | Three papers accepted by KDD’25! (1 research track and 2 in D&B) |
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Apr 17, 2025 | 📢 We’re organizing a workshop at KDD’25 - Machine Learning on Graphs in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Papers are due May 8th! |
Apr 10, 2025 | Paper accepted by EDM’25! |
Mar 19, 2025 | New preprint - “Empowering GraphRAG with Knowledge Filtering and Integration” [pdf] |
Feb 18, 2025 | New preprint studying the effectiveness of RAG vs. GraphRAG [pdf] |
Jan 05, 2025 | New survey on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Graphs [pdf] |
Dec 30, 2024 | Our tutorial on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Graph Data is accepted by SDM’25! Stay tuned for a survey to be released soon. |
Nov 20, 2024 | One paper accepted by LoG’24 [pdf]! |
Selected Publications
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NeurIPS’23Evaluating Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction: Current Pitfalls and New BenchmarkingIn Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
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KDD’25 (D&B)Understanding the Generalizability of Link Predictors Under Distribution Shifts on GraphsIn Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025
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KDD’24LPFormer: An Adaptive Graph Transformer for Link PredictionIn Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2024