2024

2024-07 to 2024-12 Invited to be a PC member of KDD 2025, ICLR 2025, WWW 2025, and ICML 2025.

2024-12-09 Gave a talk at the LoG 2024 Seattle Meetup.

2024-11 Attended EMNLP 2024 in Miami, FL (in person) to present our paper.

2024-11-14 Honored to be selected as one of the Outstanding Reviewers by EMNLP 2024!

2024-11-07 Gave a guest lecture at the University of Washington [slides].

2024-10-23 Our paper on Scientific Document Retrieval was accepted by WSDM 2025! The acceptance rate is 17.3% (106/614).

2024-10-14 Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis: Structure-Enhanced Text Mining for Science! I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my advisor, Prof. Jiawei Han, and my thesis committee members, Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher, Prof. Hanghang Tong, Prof. Wei Wang, and Dr. Iris Shen!

2024-09-20 Our survey on Scientific Large Language Models was accepted by EMNLP 2024 main conference!

2024-08 Started my visit at the University of Washington! Super excited to work with Prof. Sheng Wang!

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!