I am a Ph.D. student in Prof. Jiawei Han’s Data Mining Group (DMG) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I obtained my M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. with a dual degree in Computer Science and Mathematics also at UIUC. My research interests lie in text mining, especially for mining structured knowledge from unstructured text data with minimal supervision.

News

• [2023.12] One paper on Seed-Guided Entity Typing is accepted by AAAI 2024!
• [2023.10] One paper on Weakly-Supervised Text Classification is accepted by EMNLP 2023!
• [2023.06] Invited to serve as the Proceedings Chair of WSDM 2024.
• [2023.05] One paper on Full-Text Scientific Paper Classification is accepted by KDD 2023!
• [2023.05] Our tutorial on Pre-trained Language Representations for Text Understanding is accepted by KDD 2023!
• [2023.04] One paper on Story Discovery from News Streams is accepted by SIGIR 2023!
• [2023.01] One paper on Event Chain Mining is accepted by WWW 2023!
• [2023.01] Our tutorial is accepted by EDBT 2023!

Education

• Ph.D. (2021-Current) in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Advisor: Prof. Jiawei Han

• M.S. (2019-2021) in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [Thesis]
  Advisor: Prof. Jiawei Han

• B.S. (2015-2019) dual degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Graduated with Highest Honor & Bronze Tablet

Contact

• Email: yzhan238[at]illinois[dot]edu