Chenchen Ye (PhD student at UCLA)

I am currently a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at UCLA, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Wei Wang. Prior to this, I obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where I joined the NExT Research Center advised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua.

My research interests include Natural Language Processing and Data Mining, with the current focus on reasoning over large language models and knowledge graphs.

Preprints:

• SCTc-TE: A Comprehensive Formulation and Benchmark for Temporal Event Forecasting
  Yunshan Ma*, Chenchen Ye*, Zijian Wu*, Xiang Wang, Yixin Cao, Liang Pang, Tat-Seng Chua
  Preprint 2024 
  [Paper] [Code & Data]

Publications:

• Context-aware Event Forecasting via Graph Disentanglement
  Yunshan Ma*, Chenchen Ye*, Zijian Wu, Xiang Wang, Yixin Cao, Tat-Seng Chua
  SIGKDD 2023 
  [Paper] [Code & Data] [Poster] [Slides]




• Reflecting on Experiences for Response Generation
  Chenchen Ye, Lizi Liao, Suyu Liu and Tat-Seng Chua
  ACMMM 2022 
  [Paper] [Poster] [Slides]
  




• Structured and Natural Responses Co-generation for Conversational Search
  Chenchen Ye, Lizi Liao, Fuli Feng, Wei Ji and Tat-Seng Chua
  SIGIR 2022 (Oral) 
  [Paper] [Code] [Slides]
  

• Research Assistant, Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
  NExT++ Research Center, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
  Advisor: Tat-Seng Chua, Yunshan Ma
  Topic: Learning and Reasoning on Graphs for Knowledge-enhanced Information Retrieval
  




• Undergraduate Student Researcher, May 2021 - Jun 2022
  NExT++ Research Center, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
  Advisor: Tat-Seng Chua, Lizi Liao
  Topic: Textual and Multimodal Conversational Search and Response Generation

• PhD student in Computer Science
  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), U.S.
  Sep 2023 - Present
  




• Bachelor of Compting (Computer Science) with Honours (Highest Distinction)
  National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
  Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
  

• Teaching Assistant @ NUS
  - CS2030 Programming Methodology II, Semester 1 AY2019/20
  - CS2040 Data Structure and Algorithm, Semester 1 AY2019/20
  

• Invited Reviewer: ACL 2024, KDD 2024, DASFAA 2024, ACMMM 2023

• Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize (Individual).  National University of Singapore, Jun 2022

• Dean's List Awards.  National University of Singapore, AY2019-2020/ AY2021-2022

• Science & Technology Undergraduate Scholarship.  National University of Singapore, Aug 2018 - Jun 2022

• Senior Middle 2 Scholarship.  Singapore Ministry of Education, Aug 2018 - Jun 2022