Harry Shomer

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I’m a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) at the University of Texas at Arlington. Before that, I earned my PhD in CSE from Michigan State University in 2025 under Dr. Jiliang Tang and my B.S in CS at CUNY – Brooklyn College in 2019. 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.

My research has focused on data mining and machine learning. My main research interest is machine learning on graphs. Some of the topics in this area that I’m currently interested in, include: link prediction, OOD generalization, retrieval-augmented generation on graphs, graph foundation models, and graph generation. I am also interested in Trustworthy AI and more recently the use of AI in Education.

[Recruitment] I am looking to recruit PhD students for Fall’26. Please see here for more information.

News

Oct 13, 2025 New preprint on a unified framework for retrieval+generation on graphs [pdf]
Oct 01, 2025 New preprint on iterative retrieval for GraphRAG [pdf]
Aug 27, 2025 LPFormer was just merged into PyTorch Geometric. Check it out here!
Aug 21, 2025 One paper accepted by EMNLP (main)! [pdf]
Jul 17, 2025 New preprint on using data augmentation to improve link prediction generalization on OOD samples [pdf]
Jul 01, 2025 Our paper “Automated Label Placement on Maps via LLMs” is accepted at the AI4DE Workshop at KDD’25!
May 22, 2025 New preprint on incorporating higher-order information for Temporal LP [pdf]
May 16, 2025 Three papers accepted by KDD’25! (1 research track and 2 in D&B)

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. KDD’25
    Towards Understanding Link Predictor Generalizability Under Distribution Shifts
    Harry Shomer*, Jay Revolinsky*, and Jiliang Tang
    In Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025
    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
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