Dr. Can RONG is a postdoc in the interdisciplinary research group Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), supervised by Prof Jinhua Zhao.
Before this, he obtained PhD from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, supervised by Prof Yong Li.
His research interests focus on graph diffusion models, spatio-temporal modelling, urban mobility and sustainable development. He is now working on introducing AI for Science into urban research domain.
SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment
Year of Publication:
Venue:
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Kailai Sun (SMART), Mingyi He (MIT), Heye Huang (SMART), Can Rong (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
City-wide Origin-destination Matrix Generation via Cascaded Graph Denoising Diffusion
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Montreal, Canada
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Can Rong (SMART), Jingtao Ding (Tsinghua University), Zicheng Liu (Alibaba Group), Peng Lu (PKU-Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence), Yong Li (Tsinghua University)