Scholar
Xiangru Jian
Google Scholar ID: kq17trAAAAAJ
University of Waterloo
Citations & Impact
Citations
113
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
20
Co-authors
15
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Multiple papers accepted to top conferences such as NeurIPS 2025, ICML 2025, ICLR 2025, including “Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers” and “UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction”. Additionally, work on neural network loss landscapes was accepted by IEEE BigData 2023.
Research Experience
- Research Intern, ServiceNow Research, 2024.04 - present. Working on vision-language models for text-rich documents.
- Research Assistant, City University of Hong Kong & Hong Kong Institute of Data Science, 2021.10 - 2022.07. Focused on non-convex/submodular optimization and data mining.
- Teaching Assistant, University of Waterloo, 2022.09 - present. Serving as a teaching assistant for database-related courses.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 2027 (expected)
- M.S. in Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, 2021, advised by Prof. Yu Yang
- B.Eng. in Engineering, Tongji University, 2019
Background
- Research Interests: LLM applications for data management, including structured or semi-structured data (such as relational tables and knowledge graphs) and unstructured data (such as images and videos). Brief Introduction: Xiangru Jian is a PhD student in the Data Systems Group at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. M. Tamer Özsu. He is also a visiting researcher at ServiceNow Research.
Miscellany
- Personal Interest: A big fan of Manchester City FC
