Ruining Zhao

Hey there! I am Ruining (Christine) Zhao, a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am fortunate to be a member of Data Mining Group (DMG) advised by Prof. Jiawei Han and the BLENDER lab advised by Prof. Heng Ji. Before joining DMG and Blender, I was a research intern at IDEA Lab advised by Prof. Hanghang Tong.

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
• Beyond Language: emotion and human behaviors understanding supported by reasoning and creative generation ability of LLMs
• Scientific Discovery: joint learning of scientific elements and Language

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