Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Who Benefits from Wikipedia's Growth Mentorship?

Yubo Zhou, Pengyu Chen, Ceren Budak · International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2026

A causal study of 35K+ newcomer conversations on Wikipedia showing that a mentor's reply raises retention (+1.7pp overall, +2.4pp for technical questions), with response speed and topical relevance as the strongest correlates.

Rethinking Message Passing Neural Networks with Diffusion Distance-Guided Stress Majorization

Haoran Zheng, Renchi Yang, Yubo Zhou, Jianliang Xu · ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2025

DDSM, a graph neural network that reframes message passing as diffusion-distance-guided stress majorization to mitigate over-smoothing, benchmarked against 15 baselines across 11 graphs spanning homophilic and heterophilic structures.

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EmoSpeech: A Corpus of Emotionally Rich and Contextually Detailed Speech Annotations

Weizhen Bian*, Yubo Zhou*, Kaitai Zhang*, Xiaohan Gu* · International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 2024

A speech corpus with emotion-rich, natural-language annotations mined from film and TV dialogue, built to support training of emotion-controllable speech systems.

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Advancing Music Therapy: Integrating Eastern Five-Element Music Theory and Western Techniques with AI

Yubo Zhou*, Weizhen Bian*, Kaitai Zhang*, Xiaohan Gu* · International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 2024

A framework combining Eastern Five-Element music theory with Western techniques and AI to inform computational approaches to music therapy.

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IntellectSeeker: A Personalized Literature Management System with the Probabilistic Model and LLM

Weizhen Bian*, Siyuan Liu*, Yubo Zhou*, Dezhi Chen, Yijie Liao, Zhenzhen Fan, Aobo Wang · International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM), 2024

A personalized literature management system that couples a probabilistic model with a large language model to help researchers find and organize relevant work.

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CogSimulator: A Model for Simulating User Cognition and Behavior with Minimal Data

Weizhen Bian, Yubo Zhou, Yuanhang Luo, Ming Mo, Siyan Liu, Yikai Gong, Renjie Wan, Ziyuan Luo, Aobo Wang · Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2024

A model that simulates user cognition and behavior from minimal data, aimed at predicting user responses without large-scale data collection.

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Bilibili: Soaring to be China's Largest Video Community for Young People

Ting Liu, Yubo Zhou, Huili Chen, Hao Sun, Chen Rocky Peng · Academy of Asian Business Review, 9(1), 93–110, 2023

A business case study of Bilibili's growth into one of China's largest online video communities for young users.

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Posters and Extended Abstracts

Lookover: Scaffolding Student Participation in Social Annotation

Yubo Zhou, Xinyue Xu, Zesen Zhao, Anhong Guo, Xinyue Chen · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Adjunct Proceedings, 2026

An AI tool that helps students participate more actively in peer discussion on social-annotation platforms while keeping the thinking their own, evaluated in a graduate course.