Chang Gong (贡 畅)

Contact: gongchang@ict.ac.cn

I am an Assistant Professor at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS). I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory from ICT, CAS in 2026, under the supervision of Professor Jingping Bi and Associate Professor Di Yao. My research focuses on trustworthy causal machine learning for temporal data, spanning causal discovery, root cause analysis, and causal attribution. I'm primarily interested in:

  • Causal Discovery & Causal Inference
  • Computational Advertising
  • User Behavior Modeling
  • Social Mind Intelligence

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Publications
PORCA: Root Cause Analysis with Partially Observed Data
Chang Gong, Di Yao, Jin Wang, Wenbin Li, Lanting Fang, Yongtao Xie, Kaiyu Feng, Peng Han, Jingping Bi
42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2026
GTool: Graph Enhanced Tool Planning with Large Language Model
Wenjie Chen, Wenbin Li, Di Yao, Xuying Meng, Chang Gong, Jingping Bi
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
Zing: Social Mind for LLMs
Zing Team (Ao Xiang, Bi Jingping, Chen Jiahui, Chen Lehan, Chen Yilin, Cheng Xueqi, Fan Yixing, Gan Kairong, Gao Haowen, Gao Jinhua, Gao Shuxuan, Gong Chang, Guo Jiafeng, Guo Ruijie, Han Zhouyu, He Guangfu, He Yichun, Jiang Shuo, Jing Shaoling, Jing Ya, Lei Chenhao, Lei Yan, Li Anqi, Li Chengao, Li Haoyu, Li Shitian, Liang Xinjian, Liu Zhaoge, Lyu Xingyu, Nie Zhuwei, Pang Liang, Quan Zeping, Shan Shiguang, Shen Huawei, Tang Xinran, Tian Feng, Wang Qian, Wang Ruiping, Wang Xiaohong, Xia Zaiyu, Xiao Yi, Xu Jiayuan, Xu Kehan, Xu Qianqian, Xu Tianyu, Xu Yongjun, Yang Haoming, Yang Jun, Yao Di, Yu Xiaoming, Zhang Futong, Zhang Jie, Zhang Shixuan, Zhang Yuxuan, Zhao Xinyu, Zhao Zhuoran, Zhong Yunfei, Zhu Shengyu)
Paper / Model
STBench: Assessing the Ability of Large Language Models in Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Wenbin Li, Di Yao, Ruibo Zhao, Wenjie Chen, Zijie Xu, Chengxue Luo, Chang Gong, Quanliang Jing, Haining Tan, Jingping Bi
The Web Conference (WWW) 2025
DPBL: Denoised Player Behavior Representation Learning
Wenbin Li, Di Yao, Zijie Xu, Chang Gong, Quanliang Jing, Shu Zhao, Runze Wu, Haining Tan, Jingping Bi
IEEE Transactions on Games 2025
Causal Discovery from Temporal Data: An Overview and New Perspectives
Chang Gong, Chuzhe Zhang, Di Yao, Jingping Bi, Wenbin Li, YongJun Xu
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 2024
Paper / Chinese Blog
CausalTAD: Causal Implicit Generative Model for Debiased Online Trajectory Anomaly Detection
Wenbin Li, Di Yao, Chang Gong, Xiaokai Chu, Quanliang Jing, Xiaolei Zhou, Yuxuan Zhang, Yunxia Fan, Jingping Bi
40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2024
CausalMMM: Learning Causal Structure for Marketing Mix Modeling
Chang Gong, Di Yao, Lei Zhang, Sheng Chen, Wenbin Li, Yueyang Su, Jingping Bi
17th ACM International Conference Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2024
Paper / Code / Chinese Blog
Causal Discovery from Temporal Data (Tutorial)
Chang Gong, Di Yao, Chuzhe Zhang, Wenbin Li, Jingping Bi, Lun Du, and Jin Wang
29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2023
Abstract / Webpage
CausalMTA: Eliminating the User Confounding Bias for Causal Multi-touch Attribution
Di Yao, Chang Gong, Lei Zhang, Sheng Chen, and Jingping Bi
28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2022
Paper / Code / Chinese Blog
TrajCross: Trajecotry Cross-Modal Retrieval with Contrastive Learning
Quanliang Jing, Di Yao, Chang Gong, Xinxin Fan, Baoli Wang, Haining Tan, and Jingping Bi
IEEE Bigdata 2022
Paper
Improved general attribute reduction algorithms
Baizhen Li, Zhihua Wei, Duoqian Miao, Nan Zhang, Wen Shen, Chang Gong, Hongyun Zhang, and Lijun Sun
Information Sciences 2020
Paper
Education
2021-2026 Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS)
Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory
Supervisor: Jingping Bi
2017-2021 Tongji University (TJU)
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, College of Electronic and Information Engineering
2017-2019 Fudan University (FDU)
Minor in International Economics and Trade, School of Economics
2016-2017 Tongji University (TJU)
B.S. in Vehicle Engineering, Institue of Rail Transit
Honors and Awards
2025 National Scholarship for Doctoral Students
2025 Lude Investment Outstanding Doctoral Scholarship, ICT, CAS
2023-2024 Merit Student, UCAS
2023-2024 Outstanding Student Cadre, UCAS
2021 Outstanding Graduate, TJU
Professional Services
Journal Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

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