I’m currently working as a Ph.D. student in Information Systems at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. It is a job to pursue impact on both academia and industry. Fortunately, I have a nice and supportive advisor, Prof. Yan Leng, to guide me through this challenging journey.

My research interests are mainly on AI for Business. Specifically, I design AI systems (graph neural networks, large language models) to solve practical business problems (marketing design, fintech, etc.).

Before coming to Austin, I worked as a software development engineer for Alibaba Cloud. I received my M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2022 and my B.S. in Information Management and Information System from Wuhan University in 2019. I also hold a minor degree in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

If you are interested in my research or open-source projects, feel free to contact me.

News

• Oct 2024: Joint with Prof. Yan Leng and Prof. Ashish Agarwal, we won INFORMS Data Science Workshop Best Paper Award on a paper about LLM for marketing content generation.

• Feb 2023: I accepted the Ph.D. offer from UT Austin, a turning point in my career life.

• Dec 2022: A talk about DialogueGAT (slide) in FinNLP-2022.

• Oct 2022: Our paper DialogueGAT: A Graph Attention Network for Financial Risk Prediction by Modeling the Dialogues in Earnings Conference Calls (code) was accepted by Findings of EMNLP 2022!

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• Aug 2022: I joined Alibaba Cloud as a Software Development Engineer.

• Jun 2022: I got my M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

• Jul 2021: I joined AWS Shanghai AI Lab as a Software Develop Intern, working on Graph Pooling.

• Jun 2019: I received my B.S. in Information Management and Information System from Wuhan Univeristy.

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Education

• M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2022
• B.S. in Information Management and Information System, School of Information Management, Wuhan University, 2019
• B.S.(Minor) in Computer Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2019

Selected Awards

• BAAI & ICT – False news Detection Task 3, Silver Medal, 2020
• Tsang Hin-chi Scholarship, 2016 - 2019
• Excellent Student Cadre of Shandong Province, 2014

Work Experience

• Software Development Engineer, Alibaba Cloud, Aug 2022 - Jun 2023
• Software Develop Intern, AWS Shanghai AI Lab, Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
• Data Scientist Intern, eBay, Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
• Test Development Intern, Baidu, Nov 2018 - Jan 2019