👋 About Me

Hi, I am Zijin Hong, currently a final-year undergraduate student pursuing a dual bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics with Mathematics at Jinan University (JNU) and the University of Birmingham (UoB). I’m supervised by Prof. Feiran Huang in JNU and work closely with Prof. Xiao Huang and Dr. Hao Chen at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).

My current research interests include large language models and their applications, information extraction, and code (SQL) generation. During my free time, I enjoy customizing mechanical keyboards and playing video games. Please feel free to reach me out!

🔥 News

• 2024.07: 🔥🔥 My thesis “Learning with Database’s Preference in Text-to-SQL For Large Language Models” was awarded as Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis by Jinan University.
• 2024.06: 🔥🔥 Our survey “Next-Generation Database Interfaces: A Survey of LLM-based Text-to-SQL” has been released. Take a look!
• 2024.05:  🎉🎉 Our paper “Towards Better Question Generation in QA-based Event Extraction” is accepted by ACL 2024.
• 2024.05:  🎉🎉 Our paper “Knowledge-to-SQL: Enhancing SQL Generation with Data Expert LLM” is accepted by ACL 2024.

📝 Publications

• Next-Generation Database Interfaces: A Survey of LLM-based Text-to-SQL

  Zijin Hong, Zheng Yuan, Qinggang Zhang, Hao Chen, Junnan Dong, Feiran Huang, Xiao Huang

  arXiv Preprint

• Towards Better Question Generation in QA-based Event Extraction

  Zijin Hong, Jian Liu

  In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024

• Knowledge-to-SQL: Enhancing SQL Generation with Data Expert LLM

  Zijin Hong, Zheng Yuan, Hao Chen, Qinggang Zhang, Feiran Huang, Xiao Huang

  In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024

⚒️ Projects

• Double Encoder Seq2Seq-Based Presidential Concept Stock Price Prediction Model
• Dual-Path Attention-Based Text Sentiment Analysis Model with Summarization
• Low-Resource Chinese Named Entity Recognition

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.07, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Jinan University
• 2024.06, Outstanding Graduate, Jinan University
• 2024.05, First Class Graduates Scholarship, Jinan University
• 2023.11, First Class Scholarship, Jinan University
• 2022.11, Outstanding Leadership Scholarhip, Jinan University, University of Brimingham
• 2022.11, Second Class Scholarship, Jinan University

📋 Services

Conference Reviewer

• ACL Rolling Review 2024

Journal Reviewer

• TKDE

Teaching Assistant

• Fall 2023, J4-2022114001 Data Mining, Jinan University

💻 Experiences

• 2024.08 - 2025.01, Reseach Scientist, LLM-Eval Group@Reallm Lab, Hong Kong SAR, China.
• 2023.02 - 2024.07, Reseach Intern, Computing Communication Research@Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
• 2023.01 - 2023.02, Algotithm Intern, WITMED Centre@China Unicom, Guangzhou, China.
• 2022.07 - 2022.09, Research Intern, COG-12 NLP Group@iFLYTEK Research, Guangzhou, China.
• 2021.07 - 2022.01, Data Analyst Intern, Data Centre@AOF Data, Guangzhou, China.