Irwin King
Irwin King works on machine learning and social computing, including recommendation methods that use relationships between people. King co-authored SoRec with Hao Ma, Haixuan Yang, and Michael R. Lyu. The CIKM 2008 paper studied social recommendation using probabilistic matrix factorization. With Hao Ma, Dengyong Zhou, Chao Liu, and Michael R. Lyu, King co-authored Recommender Systems with Social Regularization. The paper appeared at WSDM in 2011.
- Works
- 738
- Citations
- 29,109
- h-index
- 79
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2008
Social recommendation
King co-authored SoRec with Hao Ma, Haixuan Yang, and Michael R. Lyu. The CIKM 2008 paper studied social recommendation using probabilistic matrix factorization.
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2011
Social regularization
With Hao Ma, Dengyong Zhou, Chao Liu, and Michael R. Lyu, King co-authored Recommender Systems with Social Regularization. The paper appeared at WSDM in 2011.
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2021
Neural network applications
King received the INNS Dennis Gabor Award in 2021 for contributions to engineering applications of neural networks.
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2023
Federated graph learning
King and Xinyu Fu co-authored FedHGN, a federated framework for heterogeneous graph neural networks, published at IJCAI in 2023. The work forms part of his broader graph learning research.
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2026
Research recognition
AAAI elected Irwin King as a Fellow in 2026.
Sources and credits
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