I'm a Ph.D. Candidate, Senior Systems Analyst (No.31420190537010200309), born in Jinan, Shandong, China. Student Member of China Computer Federation (CCF), IEEE Student Member, ACM Student Member. Received his M.S. degree from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University (2020-2023). His recent research focuses on recommender systems, cross-domain recommendation, lightweight recommendation, sequential recommendation, recommendation fairness, etc. During his graduate studies, he has published multiple high-quality papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including ACM TOIS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, AAAI 2025, DASFAA 2023, ICDM 2023, and Journal of Computer Research and Development (J-CRAD). ORCID: [0000-0001-8842-5828]

2016.09–2018.12: B.S., Shandong University of Finance and Economics
2020.09–2023.07: M.S., Shandong Normal University
2023.09–Present: Ph.D. Candidate, Shandong University of Science and Technology

2017.07–2018.06: Android Engineer, Youlin Interactive Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou, Guangdong)
2019.01–2019.05: Software Engineer, Hualing Technology Co., Ltd. (Qingdao, Shandong)

[1] Jinyu Zhang, Chao Li, Zhongying Zhao*. "Lightweight yet Efficient: An External Attentive Graph Convolutional Network with Positional Prompts for Sequential Recommendation." ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2025, Early Access. DOI: 10.1145/3719343 (CCF-A Journal, IF=5.4)

[2] Jinyu Zhang, Zhongying Zhao*, Chao Li, Yanwei Yu. "Lightweight yet Fine-grained: A Graph Capsule Convolutional Network with Subspace Alignment for Shared-account Sequential Recommendation." In the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v39i12.33445. (CCF-A Conference)

[3] Jinyu Zhang, Chenxi Ma, Chao Li, Zhongying Zhao*. "Towards Lightweight Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation via Tri-Branches Graph External Attention Network." Journal of Computer Research and Development (J-CRAD), 2024. DOI: 10.7544/issn1000-1239.202440197 (CCF T1 Chinese Journal)

[4] Xinhua Wang, Houping Yue, Zizheng Wang, Liancheng Xu, Jinyu Zhang*. "Unbiased and Robust: External Attention-enhanced Graph Contrastive Learning for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation." In the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) workshop, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ICDMW60847.2023.00194 (CCF-B Conference)

[5] Jinyu Zhang, Huichuan Duan, Lei Guo, Liancheng Xu, Xinhua Wang*. "Towards Lightweight Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation via External Attention-enhanced Graph Convolution Network." In the 28th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2023. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30672-3_14 (CCF-B Conference)

[6] Lei Guo, Jinyu Zhang, Li Tang, Tong Chen, Lei Zhu, Hongzhi Yin*. "Time Interval-enhanced Graph Neural Network for Shared-account Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation." IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3201533 (SCI Q1, IF=14.255)

[7] Lei Guo, Jinyu Zhang, Tong Chen, Xinhua Wang, Hongzhi Yin*. "Reinforcement Learning-enhanced Shared-account Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation." IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2022.3185101 (CCF-A Journal, IF=9.235)

[1] The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2025) - Conference Reviewer

[2] ACM TheWebConf 2025 Conference (WWW 2025) - Conference Reviewer

[3] The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) - Conference Reviewer

[4] IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2024) - Conference Reviewer

[5] International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML 2023) - Program Committee Member

[6] IEEE transactions on computational social systems (TCSS) - Journal Reviewer

[7] IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering (TKDE) - Journal Reviewer

[8] Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) - Journal Reviewer

[9] Neural Networks (NN) - Journal Reviewer

[10] Pattern Recognition (PR) - Journal Reviewer