Ruining Zhao

Hey there! I am Ruining (Christine) Zhao, a first-year Master student in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I currently work with Prof. Alexander Schwing with exciting Video understanding with language grounding. I am also fortuante to be a member of Data Mining Group (DMG) advised by Prof. Jiawei Han and the BLENDER lab advised by Prof. Heng Ji.

My current research interests are Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Knowledge graph and Foundemantal Machine Learning. More specifically, I am motivated by below questions:

• LLM Adaptation: fundamental paradigm shift to current LLM training frameworks
• Language + Vision joint learning of vision concepts and lanaguge features for better image and video understanding
• Beyond Language: emotion and human behaviors understanding supported by reasoning and creative generation ability of LLMs

News:

• [Feb 2024] One paper “Massively Multi-Cultural Knowledge Acquisition & LM Benchmarking” has been arxived
• [Oct 2023] One paper “Instruct and Extract: Instruction Tuning for On-Demand Information Extraction” has been accepted to EMNLP’ 2023
• [May 2023] One paper “Open-Domain Hierarchical Event Schema Induction by Incremental Prompting and Verification” has been accepted to ACL’s 2023
• [Dec 2022] One paper “Knowledge Graph Comparative Reasoning for Fact Checking: Problem Definition and Algorithms” has been accepted to IEEE’s 2022