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Maolei Huang
Senior Algorithm Engineer
Alibaba
About Me

I am a Senior Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba based in Chaoyang, Beijing, specializing in Ranking, Recommendation Systems, and Supply Chain Optimization. I hold a Master's degree in Computer Architecture from the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), and a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Shandong University (SDU). My work focuses on building robust, large-scale recommendation engines for complex travel and e-commerce scenarios. I am passionate about developing innovative deep learning models to address challenges in user intent modeling, cross-scenario transfer learning, and commercial revenue optimization, consistently driving significant growth in GMV and online efficiency.

Education
  • Institute of Computing Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Institute of Computing Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    M.S. in Computer Science
    Sep. 2019 - Jul. 2022
  • Shandong University
    Shandong University
    B.S. in Computer Science
    Sep. 2015 - Jul. 2019
Experience
  • Alibaba
    Alibaba
    Senior Algorithm Engineer
    Sep. 2022 - present
  • Fliggy, Alibaba
    Fliggy, Alibaba
    Algorithm Engineer Intern
    Jun. 2021 - Sep. 2022
News
2026
We are happy that "SkyDistill" has been accepted by the Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'26)!
Apr 01
We are happy that "PCANet" has been accepted by the Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'26)!
Apr 01
We are happy that "DCRNet" has been accepted by the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'26)!
Mar 14
2025
We are happy that "CPNet" has been accepted by the Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2 (KDD'25)!
Aug 03
[CN119669581B]:专利“一种推荐模型的优化方法、装置”已顺利通过审核并被接收! 🎉🎉🎉
Jul 10
[CN119669582B]:专利“票务推荐方法、系统、出行服务器及程序”已顺利通过审核并被接收! 🎉🎉🎉
Jun 10
We are happy that "GPromptShield" has been accepted by the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'25)!
Feb 06
2024
We are happy that "MTSSL" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS'24)!
Dec 16
2023
We are happy that "FMTL" has been accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J'23)!
Jun 11
Selected Publications (view all )
SkyDistill: Navigating Fuzzy Flight Search Ranking via Precise Intent Distillation
SkyDistill: Navigating Fuzzy Flight Search Ranking via Precise Intent Distillation

Maolei Huang, Shuhan Song*, Huawei Cao (* equal contribution)

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2026 Poster

SkyDistill: Navigating Fuzzy Flight Search Ranking via Precise Intent Distillation

Maolei Huang, Shuhan Song*, Huawei Cao (* equal contribution)

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2026 Poster

PCANet: Price Change Aware Framework for Mitigating Inconsistencies in Large-Scale Ranking Systems
PCANet: Price Change Aware Framework for Mitigating Inconsistencies in Large-Scale Ranking Systems

Maolei Huang, Shuhan Song*, Huawei Cao (* equal contribution)

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2026 Poster

PCANet: Price Change Aware Framework for Mitigating Inconsistencies in Large-Scale Ranking Systems

Maolei Huang, Shuhan Song*, Huawei Cao (* equal contribution)

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2026 Poster

DCRNet: Delayed Conversion Modeling Based Personalized Flight Itinerary Ranking Network
DCRNet: Delayed Conversion Modeling Based Personalized Flight Itinerary Ranking Network

Maolei Huang, Zhuoran Zhuang, Detao Lv, Yuantong Li, Shuhan Song, Yao Yu

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI) 2026 Oral

DCRNet: Delayed Conversion Modeling Based Personalized Flight Itinerary Ranking Network

Maolei Huang, Zhuoran Zhuang, Detao Lv, Yuantong Li, Shuhan Song, Yao Yu

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI) 2026 Oral

CPNet: A Context based Personalized Deep Network for Nearby Flight Recommendation
CPNet: A Context based Personalized Deep Network for Nearby Flight Recommendation

Maolei Huang, Detao Lv, Yao Yu, Shuhan Song, Dong Li, Zhuoran Zhuang

KDD'25: Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2 2025 Oral

CPNet: A Context based Personalized Deep Network for Nearby Flight Recommendation

Maolei Huang, Detao Lv, Yao Yu, Shuhan Song, Dong Li, Zhuoran Zhuang

KDD'25: Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2 2025 Oral

GPromptShield: Elevating Resilience in Graph Prompt Tuning Against Adversarial Attacks
GPromptShield: Elevating Resilience in Graph Prompt Tuning Against Adversarial Attacks

Shuhan Song, Ping Li, Ming Dun, Maolei Huang, Huawei Cao, Xiaochun Ye

ICLR'25: The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations 2025 Poster

GPromptShield: Elevating Resilience in Graph Prompt Tuning Against Adversarial Attacks

Shuhan Song, Ping Li, Ming Dun, Maolei Huang, Huawei Cao, Xiaochun Ye

ICLR'25: The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations 2025 Poster

MTSSL: Multitask-based self-supervised learning for recommendation in social systems
MTSSL: Multitask-based self-supervised learning for recommendation in social systems

Wenjian Xu, Fanxiang Zeng, Nan Zhang, Honghao Gao, Yuyu Yin, Zulong Chen, Maolei Huang, Jian Wan

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 2024 Poster

MTSSL: Multitask-based self-supervised learning for recommendation in social systems

Wenjian Xu, Fanxiang Zeng, Nan Zhang, Honghao Gao, Yuyu Yin, Zulong Chen, Maolei Huang, Jian Wan

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 2024 Poster

FMTL: Multitask learning using feature extraction network for smart tourism applications
FMTL: Multitask learning using feature extraction network for smart tourism applications

Yu Li, Fanxiang Zeng, Nan Zhang, Zulong Chen, Li Zhou, Maolei Huang, Tianqi Zhu, Jing Wang

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2023 Poster

FMTL: Multitask learning using feature extraction network for smart tourism applications

Yu Li, Fanxiang Zeng, Nan Zhang, Zulong Chen, Li Zhou, Maolei Huang, Tianqi Zhu, Jing Wang

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2023 Poster

All publications