2026-08-21: Received a Recognition Award for demonstrating inclusive practice at University of Sheffield. See the certificate here.
2026-08-21: Paper accepted at EMNLP-26, titled "TRACE: Tree-Structured Reasoning for Multi-Table Multi-Hop Fact-Checking".
2026-08-21: Paper accepted at EMNLP-26, titled "CuRLRank: Curriculum-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning-Intensive Reranking".
2026-08-21: Paper accepted at EMNLP-26 Findings, titled "PPE-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating MLLM Unlearning under Private-Public Entanglement".
2026-08-21: Paper accepted at EMNLP-26 Findings, titled "TRILOGUE: A Trilingual Spoken Dialogue Fact-Checking Benchmark with Evidence and Paired Audio".
2026-07-23: Visited Chongqing University and delivered an in-person talk, hosted by Prof. Kai Wang and Prof. Tong Liu. See photos in Gallery.
2026-07-22: Paper accepted at Journal of Physics: Materials, titled "Generative and Multimodal AI for Materials Prediction and Design: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives".
2026-07-21: Visited Shandong University and delivered an in-person talk, hosted by Prof. Yujun Li. See photos in Gallery and the news report in Media Coverage.
2026-07-15: Visited Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), hosted by Prof. Menglin Yang. See photos in Gallery.
2026-07-08: Paper accepted at COLM-26, titled "StateBridge: Training-free Hidden-state Alignment for Latent Communication in LLM Multi-Agent Systems".
2026-07-06: Invited as an Area Chair for KDD-27.
2026-05-21: Completed the teaching task for the COM1002 Foundations of Computer Science course, University of Sheffield.
2026-04-30: Paper accepted at ICML-26, titled "Graph-GRPO: Training Graph Flow Models with Reinforcement Learning".
2026-04-06: Paper accepted at ACL-26, titled "When Misinformation Speaks and Converses: Rethinking Fact-Checking in Audio Platforms".
2026-03-29: Attended EACL-26 in Rabat, Morocco. See photos in Gallery.
2026-02-03: Invited as an Area Chair for KDD-26.
2026-01-04: Paper accepted at EACL-26, titled "MEVER: Multi-Modal and Explainable Claim Verification with Graph-based Evidence Retrieval".
2025-12-16: Paper accepted at ECIR-26, titled "PromptHG: Prompt-Enhanced Heterogeneous Graph for Personalized News Recommendation".
2025-11-24: Served as a Guest Instructor and taught the Unsupervised Learning session of the COM4509/6509 Machine Learning and Adaptive Intelligence course, University of Sheffield.
2025-11-20: Delivered an in-person talk at the Machine Learning group, University of Sheffield.
2025-11-09: Attended EMNLP-25 in Suzhou, China. See photos in Gallery.
2025-11-09: Served as a panelist and contributed to the panel discussion of the MathNLP 2025 workshop at EMNLP-25. See photos in Gallery.
2025-11-09: Delivered an online talk to The 5th International Symposium on Cognitive and Semantic Computing held at Shanxi University.
2025-10-21: Delivered an online talk to Sichuan University.
2025-10-12: Completed the Technical Chair role for DSAA-25.
2025-10-07: Delivered an in-person talk at the Natural Language Processing group, University of Sheffield.
2025-08-20: Paper accepted at EMNLP-25, titled "Unmasking Fake Careers: Detecting Machine-Generated Career Trajectories via Multi-Layer Heterogeneous Graphs".
2025-08-20: Paper accepted at EMNLP-25, titled "SUA: Stealthy Multimodal Large Language Model Unlearning Attack".
2025-08-01: Joined the School of Computer Science at University of Sheffield as an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer). See the news report in Media Coverage.