The paper 'Neural Formatting for Spreadsheet Tables' was nominated for Best Full Research Paper at CIKM 2020. The project 'SpreadsheetLLM' was featured as Hugging Face Paper of the Day (1st for the day, 2nd for the month).
Research Experience
Co-founded the first Table Representation Learning (TRL) Workshop at NeurIPS in 2022 and continued to co-organize it in 2023 and 2024. Served on the steering committee for the Tabular Data Analysis (TaDA) workshop at VLDB’23. Recently co-presented a tutorial on “Large Language Models for Tabular Data” at the SIGIR’24 conference and gave a keynote on “Spreadsheet Intelligence and Tabular Data Analytics” at the VLDB’2024 TaDA workshop.
Background
A Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and AI, specializing in LLMs for advancing table understanding and reasoning. His work spans both foundational research and practical applications in enterprise settings.