| Sep 23, 2025 | Two papers about efficient LLM reasoning have been accepted to NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning (ER@NeurIPS’2025)!! |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Two papers on mechanistic interpretability have been accepted to Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at NeurIPS 2025 (MechInterp@NeurIPS’2025)!! |
| Sep 18, 2025 | One paper “LLM Interpretability with Identifiable Temporal-Instantaneous Representation” has been accepted to The Thirty-ninth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’2025)!! |
| May 01, 2025 | One paper “Reflection-Window Decoding: Text Generation with Selective Refinement” been accepted to The Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’2025)!! |
| Jan 22, 2025 | One paper “On the Identification of Temporal Causal Representation with Instantaneous Dependence” has been accepted to The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR’2025) with oral presentation!! |
| Sep 25, 2024 | One paper “Causal Temporal Representation Learning with Nonstationary Sparse Transition” has been accepted to The Thirty-eighth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’2024)!! |
| May 01, 2024 | One paper “CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process” has been accepted to The Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’2024)!! |
| Jan 25, 2024 | [Jan. 2024] One paper “A Versatile Causal Discovery Framework to Allow Causally-Related Hidden Variables” has been accepted to The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR’2024)!! |
| Sep 30, 2023 | [Sep. 2023] One paper “Temporally Disentangled Representation Learning under Unknown Nonstationarity” has been accepted to The Thirty-Seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’2023)!! |
| Jan 20, 2023 | [Jan. 2023] One paper “Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Vision-Language Models” has been accepted to The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR’2023)!! |
| Nov 15, 2022 | [Nov. 2022] One paper “Estimating Treatment Effects from Irregular Time Series Observations with Hidden Confounders” has been accepted to The Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2023)!! |
| Jan 25, 2022 | [Jan. 2022] One paper “Creating Training Sets via Weak Indirect Supervision” has been accepted to The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR’2022)!! |
| Jan 20, 2022 | [Jan. 2022] One paper “TaxoEnrich: Self-Supervised Taxonomy Completion via Structure-Semantic Representations” has been accepted to The Web Conference (WWW’2022)!! |
| Nov 20, 2021 | [Nov. 2021] One paper “Attentive Knowledge-aware Graph Convolutional Networks with Collaborative Guidance for Recommendation” has been accepted to 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’2022)!! |
| Nov 15, 2021 | [Nov. 2021] Serve as Workflow Chair for UAI 2022. |
| Nov 10, 2021 | [Nov. 2021] Our python package for causal discovery causal-learn was released. Any feedback is welcome. |
| Oct 20, 2021 | [Oct. 2021] One paper “Learning Multi-granularity Consecutive User Intent Unit for Session-based Recommendation” has been accepted to The Fifteenth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’2022)!! |
| Aug 15, 2021 | [Aug. 2021] One paper “ChemNER: Fine-Grained Chemistry Named Entity Recognition with Ontology-guided Distant Supervision” has been accepted to Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’2021)!! |
| Mar 25, 2021 | [Mar. 2021] One paper “COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation” has been accepted to System Demonstration of 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL’2021)!! |
| Mar 20, 2021 | [Mar. 2021] One paper “Who Should Go First? A Self-Supervised Concept Sorting Model for Improving Taxonomy Expansion” has been accepted to The Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for the Web (SSL@WWW’2021)!! |
| Feb 25, 2021 | [Feb. 2021] I am honored to receive Conference Travel Grant sponsored by Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) at the University of Illinois. |
| Feb 20, 2021 | [Feb. 2021] I will join Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University as a PhD student starting from Fall 2021. |
| Jan 25, 2021 | [Jan. 2021] I am honored to receive WSDM 2021 Student Travel Award sponsored by SIGIR. |
| Dec 20, 2020 | [Dec. 2020] I am honored to be selected as one of the honorable mention for the 2020-2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award. |
| Dec 15, 2020 | [Dec. 2020] One paper “Taxonomy Completion via Triplet Matching Network” has been accepted to The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2021)!! |
| Oct 25, 2020 | [Oct. 2020] One paper “Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition with Distant Supervision in COVID-19 Literature” has been accepted into IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2020 (IEEE BIBM’2020)!! |
| Oct 20, 2020 | [Oct. 2020] One paper “BiTe-GCN: A New GCN Architecture via Bidirectional Convolution of Topology and Features on Text-Rich Networks” has been accepted into The 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’2021)!! |
| Oct 15, 2020 | [Oct. 2020] I am honored to be selected as one of the department’s nominations for the 2020-2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award. |
| May 15, 2020 | [May 2020] One paper “Comprehensive Named Entity Recognition on CORD-19 with Distant or Weak Supervision” has been accepted as oral and poster into The 28th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB’2020)!! |
| Mar 20, 2020 | [Mar. 2020] I am honored to receive John R. Pasta Outstanding Undergraduate Award from Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |