Curriculum Vitae
Education, internships, teaching, talks, academic service, and advising. For the full publication record, see Publications.
Education
- Ph.D. in Informatics Indiana University Bloomington, USA
- Ph.D. in Computer Science Singapore Management University, Singapore
- M.S. in Information Systems Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- B.S. in Computer Science & Technology Central South University, China
Internships
- Quantitative Research Intern — Core Research Team, QuantLab Financial (Houston).
- Research Summer Internship — Indiana University Bloomington, supervised by Prof. Katy Börner.
Teaching Experience
- Lecture — Vision Language Models (VLM). INFO-I 590 Foundation and Application for Large Language Models.
- Lecture — Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for LLMs. INFO-I 590 Foundation and Application for Large Language Models.
- Teaching Assistant, INFO-I 590 Foundation and Application for Large Language Models. Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, IU Bloomington.
- Teaching Assistant, INFO-I 590 Foundation and Application for Large Language Models. Luddy School, IU Bloomington.
- Teaching Assistant, INFO-I 590 Foundation and Application for Large Language Models. Luddy School, IU Bloomington.
Talks & Workshops
- Invited talk — "AI-Assisted Research". Prof. Thai Le's lab, Indiana University Bloomington.
- Oral presentation — MSLD 2024 (Ann Arbor, Michigan), on "ChatGPT Rates Like Human: Towards a Better Alignment of Text Explanation Quality Assessments".
- Talk — "Natural Language Explanation: From XAI to Human-AI Interaction". YY Group, CNetS, Indiana University Bloomington.
- Participant, SICSS (Summer Institute of Computational Social Science), NUS, Singapore.
- Co-organizer, Workshop "Introduction to NLP", @IEEE NTU Student Branch, NTU, Singapore.
Research Advising
- Master's Student: Sathvik Bandaru (co-advising)
Public Service — Conference Review
- NeurIPS 2026 · Reviewer
- KDD 2026 · Reviewer
- COLM 2026 · Reviewer
- ACL ARR Mar-2026 · Sub-reviewer
- IC2S2 2026 · PC
- 7th CySoc @ ICWSM 2026 · PC
- IUI 2026 · Reviewer
- WWW 2026 Web4Good · PC
- ACL ARR Jan-2026 · Reviewer
- ICWSM 2026 · Reviewer
- IMX 2025 · Reviewer
- 6th CySoc @ ICWSM 2025 · PC
- ACL ARR 2025 · Reviewer
- WebSci 2025 · PC
- CHI 2025 · Reviewer
- ICWSM 2025 · Reviewer
- IDC 2025 · Reviewer
- WSDM 2022 · Reviewer
Service — Journal Review
- PeerJ Computer Science
- Online Social Networks and Media
- Information Processing & Management
Organization / Volunteer
- SODA Lab research talk "Multimodal NLP research insights" (Dr. Henry Wei Han), organizer.
- LLM Innovators Hub @ Soda Lab, organizer.
- CNetS @ Luddy School Gathering Event, organizer.
- ISSI 2023, student volunteer.
Dissertation — Master (NTU)
- Public Opinion Trend Analysis on Nuclear Energy via Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Methods. Nanyang Technological University.