Systems and methods for implementing a spatial and temporal attention-based gated recurrent unit (GRU) for node classification over temporal attributed graphs are provided. The method includes computing, using a GRU, embeddings of nodes at different snapshots. The method includes performing weighted sum pooling of neighborhood nodes for each node. The method further includes concatenating feature vectors for each node. Final temporal network embedding vectors are generated based on the feature vectors for each node. The method also includes applying a classification model based on the final temporal network embedding vectors to the plurality of nodes to determine temporal attributed graphs with classified nodes.