Harry Shomer

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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. 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.

I will be joining the CSE Department at UT Arlington as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall’25. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to work together!

Research Interests:

  • Machine Learning on Graphs
  • Trustworthy AI
  • AI for Education

News

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]

Selected Publications

  1. NeurIPS’23
    Evaluating Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction: Current Pitfalls and New Benchmarking
    Harry Shomer*, Juanhui Li*, Haitao Mao, and 5 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
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  2. ICLR’24
    Revisiting Link Prediction: A Data Perspective
    Haitao Mao, Juanhui Li, Harry Shomer, and 6 more authors
    In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
    PDF
  3. KDD’24
    LPFormer: An Adaptive Graph Transformer for Link Prediction
    Harry Shomer, Yao Ma, Haitao Mao, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2024
    PDF