JINYANG LI

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Hi, My name is Jinyang Li who is a junior PhD student a Department of Computer Science in Hong Kong University, advised by Prof.Prof. Reynold CK Cheng. My research is under support of HKU Presidential PhD Scholar Programme. Additionally, I also work with Prof. Kevin C.C.Chang and Dr.Chenhao Ma closely. I'm enthusiastic about Natural Language Processing (semantic parsing), Large Language Model, especially the interactive projects of them.

I had a great research experience in Conversational AI Team of Alibaba DAMO Academy advised by Dr. Fei Huang, Yongbin Li and Binyuan Hui who are very insighful and patient mentors. Also I knew and cooperated with many young talent research students there: Bowen Qin, Yunshui Li, Jiaxi Yang, Liang Li, and Yingxiu Zhao. All these friends, advisors, and academic experiences make me grow up quicly in NLP! Thanks!

EDUCATION

Ph.D.          Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University, HK
                   Ph.D in Department of Computer Science
                   Research interests: Natural Language Processing with Database, Graph Analysis, Dialog
                   Advisor: Prof. Reynold CK Cheng
                   Date: Jan. 2022 - Now.

M.S.            School of Fu Foundation of Engineering & Applied Science, Columbia University, U.S.
                   M.S. in Department of Electrical Engineering
                   Track: Data-Driven Analysis and Computing, Data Science Institute
                   Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision in Health Care, Recommendation
                   Date: Aug. 2018 - Feb. 2020.

B.E.            School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Tech, China
                   B.E. in Department of Electrical Engineering
                   Research Intern: The University of Nottingham, advised by Prof. Chris Gerada
                   Advisor: Prof. Shiyan Yang & Prof.Ping Zheng
                   Date: Aug. 2013 - June. 2017.
RECENT NEWS

  21-09-2023     ------------     Our paper has been accepted to NeurIPS 2023 as a Spotlight! Additionally, we released a cleaner version of dev set, please download it again at Bird-SQL benchmark.
  05-10-2023     ------------     We released the BIRD, a big bench for large-scale database grounded text-to-SQLs. All data and source code can be found at [Bird-Nest]. There are discussion tweet: [tweet]
  11-29-2022     ------------     one paper is acceped at AAAI 2023 with oral presentation. Thanks for all co-authors, anonymous reviewers, organizers, Dr.Bowen Li and Dr. Bailin Wang.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
ConvAI, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Beijing, China
Advisor: Binyuan Hui & Yongbin Li & Fei Huang & Prof.Reynold C.K. Cheng
Project I: Graphix-T5: Enhancing T5's Database Schema Comprehension through Efficient Multi-Hop Reasoning
Project II: BIRD: The Most Comprehensive Cross-domain Text-to-SQL benchmark for Realistic Database Contents Grounding
Date: Jun. 2022 - Mar. 2023
STAR Lab, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Advisor: Prof.Reynold C.K. Cheng & Prof.Ting Liu & Researcher Xiao Ding & Prof. Yibo Xue (Tsinghua University) & Prof. Tonghua Su
Project I: A Meta-Structure Aware Heterogenous Neural Network for Event-Product Pair Extraction
Project II: Consumption Intention Mining and Recommendation System in Social Media
Project III: A Bi-Directional Medical Phenomenon-Conclusion Inference System
Date: Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2021
IBM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Waston (MIT-IBM), Boston, U.S.
Advisor: Researcher Fan Zhang
Project: The Research, Design, and Implement of AI Dialog System Based on Goal Planning and Deep Learning
Date: Aug. 2019 - Jan. 2020
State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, TSAIL Group, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Advisor: Prof. Jun Zhu
Project: Shapelet Based Time Series Regularized Decision Tree & Adversarial Attack for ML models
Date: Apr. 2019 - Aug. 2019

Google Ai & Data Science Institute, DSI, Columbia University, New York, U.S.
Advisor: Researcher Joshua Gordon & Prof. Kathy McKeown
Project: Cancer Metastases on Gigapixel Pathology Images in Low Devices
Date: Jan. 2019 - April. 2019
   PUBLICATIONS
Can LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs
Jinyang Li*, Binyuan Hui*, Ge Qu*, Binhua Li, Jiaxi Yang, Bowen Li, Bailin Wang, Bowen Qin, Rongyu Cao, Ruiying Geng, Nan Huo, Chenhao Ma, Kevin C.C. Chang, Fei Huang, Reynold Cheng, Yongbin Li
Accepted to The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS Spotlight), 2023.
Graphix-T5: Mixing Pre-Trained Transformers with Graph-Aware Layers for Text-to-SQL Parsing
Jinyang Li, Binyuan Hui, Reynold C.K.Cheng, Bowen Qin, Chenhao Ma, Nan Huo, Fei Huang, Wenyu Du, Luo Si, Yongbin Li
Accepted to The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023.
Event-driven Consumption Intent Reasoning Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks with Meta-Topology
Jinyang Li*, Bibo Cai*, Xiao Ding, Junwen Duan, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Reynold C.K. Cheng
Preprint, will submit to The Web Conference (WWW) 2023.
Efficient Approximation For Gaussian Process Regression
Dansong Cheng, Ce Liu, Xiaofang Liu, Jinyang Li, Tian Feng
Submitted to Journal of Soft Computing 2022.
Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Classification with Empirical Mode Decomposition based on Improved Long Short-Term Memory
Sheng-Nan Chen, Feng Liu, Chang-Xia Gao, Jinyang Li
Accepted to IEEE the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics (ICCCBDA) 2021.
Shapelet Based Time Series Regularized Decision Tree
Jinyang Li, Haiyang Liu, Xiaokang Wang
Accepted to IEEE Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Cybernetics 2019 76-83
Influence of Load on Discharge Performance of High-speed Flywheel Energy Storage System
Jinyang Li, Linkui Du, Weili Li, Jiafeng Shen, Jianjun Zeng, Dong Li, Purui Wang
Accepted to 20th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), 2017
Research on Stator Winding Open Circuit Faults of Permanent Magnet Wind Turbine
Jinyang Li, Weili Li, Zhijuan Zhang, Dong Li, Jiafeng Shen, Weijie Yang, Purui Wang
Accepted to 20th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), 2017
Research on Flow Rule and Thermal Dissipation Between the Rotor Poles of a Fully Air-Cooled Hydrogenerator
Shukuan Zhang, Weili Li, Jinyang Li, Likun Wang, Xiaochen Zhang.
Published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, VOL. 62, NO. 6, JUNE 2015
Influential Factor (IF: 6.498)
Awards & Scholarships

  • HKU Presidential PhD Scholar Programme (~ US $51,712/year), 2022-2025
  • Excellent Graduation Thesis in the Department of Electrical Engineering (Top 5%), 2017
  • Chinese Delegate in Youth Assembly at United Nations, 2014
  • National People's Scholarship, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Excellent Presentation "Application of Quantitative Trading by Stop-Loss Strategy and Machine Learning" in Youth Leadership Training and Exchange Programs at the International Monetary Fund, 2014
  • Member of Harbin Institute of Technology Robotic Team, 2016, 2017
  • Excellent Design Award of 2016 Industrial Practice in Harbin Institute of Technology, 2016