Yushi SUN

I am a PhD student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) majored in Computer Science and Engineering supervised by prof. Lei CHEN.

I received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2021. More details of me are introduced in my CV.

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Research

I'm interested in Tabular Data Mining, Information Retrieval, and Crowd-sourcing. Representative papers are highlighted.

RECA RECA: Related Tables Enhanced Column Semantic Type Annotation Framework
Yushi SUN, Hao XIN, Lei CHEN
VLDB, 2023

We define a novel named entity schema for related and sub-related table alignment for enhancing the annotation quality of column semantic types.


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hettrans Fake News Detection with Heterogeneous Transformer
Tianle LI, Yushi SUN, Shang-ling HSU, Yanjia LI, Raymond Chi-Wing WONG
arxiv preprint, 2022

We propose a heterogeneous transformer framework to combine the textual, visual, and social information to perform fake news detection.

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Awards and Honors
RedBird PhD Scholarship (2021)
HKUST Academic Achievement Medal (2021)
First Class Honor graduate from HKUST (2021)
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (2021-2025)
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant of COMP 2711H Honors Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science (2022 Fall)
Teaching Assistant of COMP 5712 Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization (2022 Spring)
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