2024

2024-01 to 2024-06 Invited to be a PC member of KDD 2024, CIKM 2024, EMNLP 2024, NeurIPS 2024, and WSDM 2025.

2024-05-17 Our paper on Ontology-Enhanced Fine-grained Entity Typing was accepted by KDD 2024!

2024-05-16 Our paper on Graph Chain-of-Thought Prompting was accepted by ACL 2024 Findings!

2024-05-15 Gave a guest lecture at Northwestern University [slides].

2024-03 Attended WSDM 2024 in Mérida, Mexico (in person) to present our tutorial and give a keynote at the Machine Learning on Graphs (MLoG) Workshop [slides].

2023

2023-07 to 2023-12 Invited to be a PC member of WSDM 2024, ICLR 2024, WWW 2024, SDM 2024, and ICML 2024.

2023-12-09 Our paper on Seed-Guided Entity Typing was accepted by AAAI 2024! The acceptance rate is 23.7% (2342/9862).

2023-12-06 Attended EMNLP 2023 in Singapore (in person) to present our paper.

2023-10-28 Our tutorial proposal on Joint Text and Graph Modeling was accepted by WSDM 2024 tutorial track!

2023-10-07 Two papers on Scientific Language Model Pre-training and Weakly Supervised Text Classification were accepted by EMNLP 2023 (1 main conference + 1 findings)!

2023-08 Attended KDD 2023 in Long Beach, CA (in person) to present our research paper and tutorial.

2023-08-09 Honored to be selected as one of the Outstanding Reviewers by KDD 2023!

2023-01 to 2023-06 Invited to be a PC member of CIKM 2023 and EMNLP 2023.

2023-05-16 Honored to be awarded the Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the UIUC Graduate College for the 2023-2024 academic year!

2023-05-16 Two papers on Full-Text Scientific Paper Classification and Transformer for Text-Rich Networks were accepted by KDD 2023! The acceptance rate is 22.1% (313/1416).

2023-05 Attended WWW 2023 in Austin, TX (in person) to present our research paper and tutorial.

2023-05-02 Honored to be selected as one of the Best Reviewers by WWW 2023!

2023-05-02 Two papers on Language Model Pretraining on Text-Rich Networks and Open-Domain Question Answering were accepted by ACL 2023 main conference! The acceptance rate of main track papers is 20.7%

2023-04-30 Our tutorial proposal on Pre-trained Language Representations for Text Understanding was accepted by KDD 2023 tutorial track!

2023-04-24 Our paper on Few-shot Natural Language Understanding was accepted by ICML 2023! The acceptance rate is 27.9% (1827/6538).

2023-02 Attended WSDM 2023 virtually to present our work.

2023-02-03 Our tutorial proposal on Mining Structures from Massive Texts was accepted by EDBT 2023 tutorial track!

2023-01-25 Passed my preliminary exam! Many thanks to my committee members Prof. Jiawei Han, Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher, Prof. Hanghang Tong, and Dr. Iris Shen!

2023-01-25 Our study on the Effect of Metadata on Scientific Literature Tagging was accepted by WWW 2023! The acceptance rate is 19.2% (365/1900).

2023-01-20 Our paper on Transformers for Textual-Edge Networks was accepted by ICLR 2023! The acceptance rate is 31.8%.

2022

2022-07 to 2022-12 Invited to be a PC member of COLING 2022, ICLR 2023, WWW 2023, ACL 2023, KDD 2023, and ICML 2023.

2022-12-26 Our paper on Generative Few-shot Question Answering was accepted by SDM 2023! The acceptance rate is 22.9% (105/459).

2022-12-16 Our tutorial proposal on Turning Web-Scale Texts to Knowledge was accepted by WWW 2023 tutorial track!

2022-10-19 Honored to be selected as one of the Best Reviewers by CIKM 2022!

2022-10-18 Our paper on Seed-Guided Topic Discovery was accepted by WSDM 2023! The acceptance rate is 17.8% (123/690).

2022-09-14 Our paper on Zero-shot Natural Language Understanding was accepted by NeurIPS 2022! The acceptance rate is 25.6%.

2022-08 Attended KDD 2022 in Washington, DC (in person) to present our tutorial.

2022-07 Attended NAACL 2022 in Seattle (in person, finally!) to present our work.

2022-01 to 2022-06 Invited to be a PC member of ICML 2022, CIKM 2022, ECML/PKDD 2022, NeurIPS 2022, EMNLP 2022, and WSDM 2023.

2022-05-23 Started my (third!) summer internship at Microsoft Research Redmond, working with Dr. Hao Cheng, Dr. Xiaodong Liu, and Dr. Iris Shen.

2022-05-03 Our tutorial proposal on Adapting Pre-Trained Representations for Text Mining was accepted by KDD 2022 tutorial track!

2022-04 Attended WWW 2022 virtually to present our work.

2022-04-07 Our paper on Seed-Guided Topic Discovery was accepted by NAACL 2022 main conference! The acceptance rate is 22.0%.

2022-03-18 Honored to be awarded the Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship by the UIUC Grainger College of Engineering for the 2022-2023 academic year!

2022-02 Attended WSDM 2022 virtually to present our work.

2022-01-13 Two papers on Metadata-Induced Document Contrastive Learning and BERT-Enhanced Topic Discovery were accepted by WWW 2022! The acceptance rate is 17.7% (323/1822).

2021

2021-07 to 2021-12 Invited to be a PC member of NAACL 2022 (ACL Rolling Review), AAAI 2022, WWW 2022, and KDD 2022.

2021-10-11 Our work on Motif-Enhanced Text Classification was accepted by WSDM 2021! The acceptance rate is 20.2% (159/786).

2021-08-26 Our paper on Distantly Supervised NER was accepted by EMNLP 2021 main conference! The acceptance rate is 23.3% (840/3600).

2021-08-14 Attended KDD 2021 virtually to give a tutorial.

2021-01 to 2021-06 Invited to be a PC member of ACL 2021, NeurIPS 2021, CIKM 2021, and ICLR 2022.

2021-05-17 Started my (second) summer internship at Microsoft Research Redmond, working with Dr. Iris Shen.

2021-05-15 Our tutorial proposal on Text Embeddings and Pre-Trained Language Models was accepted by KDD 2021 tutorial track!

2021-04-19 Attended WWW 2021 virtually to present our work.

2021-03-08 Attended WSDM 2021 virtually to present our work.

2021-01-15 My summer intern work on Multi-Label Academic Paper Classification was accepted by WWW 2021! The acceptance rate is 20.6% (357/1736).

2020

2020-07 to 2020-12 Invited to be a PC member of ICLR 2021 and NAACL-HLT 2021.

2020-12-15 Our survey paper on Heterogeneous Network Representation Learning was accepted by IEEE TKDE!

2020-10-15 Our paper on Hierarchical Metadata-Aware Document Categorization was accepted by WSDM 2021! The acceptance rate is 18.6% (112/603).

2020-07-26 Attended SIGIR 2020 virtually to present our work. Served as a conference volunteer.

2020-05-18 Started my summer internship at Microsoft Research Redmond, working with Dr. Iris Shen and Dr. Yuxiao Dong.

2020-05-15 Our paper on Hierarchical Topic Mining was accepted by KDD 2020 research track! The acceptance rate is 16.9% (216/1279).

2020-04-22 Our paper on Classifying Text with Metadata under Weak Supervision was accepted by SIGIR 2020 as a full paper! The acceptance rate is 26.5% (147/555).

2020-04 Invited to be a PC member of EMNLP 2020.

2020-04-06 Passed my Qualifying Exam and became a Ph.D. candidate.

2020-01-11 Our paper on Category-Name Guided Topic Mining was accepted by WWW 2020 as a full paper! The acceptance rate is 19.2% (217/1129).

2019

2019-12-10 Traveled to Los Angeles to give a conference tutorial at IEEE BigData 2019.

2019-08-09 Our paper on Hierarchical GitHub Repository Classification was accepted by ICDM 2019 as a full paper! The acceptance rate of full papers is 9.1% (95/1046).

2019-05-11 Finished my M.Sc. study in DMG at UIUC!

2018

2018-10-21 Our work on Open-Domain Information Extraction was accepted by WSDM 2019! The acceptance rate is 16.4% (84/511).

2018-10-05 Our work on Multi-Task Biomedical NER was accepted by Bioinformatics!

2018-04-27 Our paper received Best Poster Award Honorable Mention at WWW 2018!

2018-02-14 Our paper on Open-Domain Information Extraction was accepted by WWW 2018 as a poster!

2017

2017-12-22 Our paper on Weakly-Supervised Relation Extraction was accepted by WWW 2018! The acceptance rate is 14.8% (171/1155).

2017-08-16 Became a member of Prof. Jiawei Han’s Data Mining Group!

2017-08-07 Traveled to Tokyo to attend SIGIR 2017.

2017-08-05 Our paper on Tweet Location Estimation was accepted by CIKM 2017 as a short paper!

2017-06-05 My undergraduate thesis was selected as one of the Best 10 Undergraduate Theses of PKU EECS! I am grateful to Prof. Yan Zhang for his support throughout the years.

2017-04-12 Our paper on Influential Node Mining was accepted by SIGIR 2017 as a short paper!