Zhengyuan (Dora) Dong

My Research Interests: Model Lake, Data Lake, Tabular Data, Multi-agent System

I like jogging, ai for productivity, occult, game and music, and have two parrots.

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I am open for collaboration, always welcoming discussion.

News

[Preprint] Paper Github
Diversed Model Discovery via Structured Table Discovery Zhengyuan Dong, Renée J. Miller , arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22766 (2026)
[Preprint] Paper HuggingFace Github
ModelTables: A Corpus of Tables about Models Zhengyuan Dong, Victor Zhong, Renée J. Miller , arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.16106 (2025)
[ACL finding 2026] Paper Symposium
InteracSPARQL: An Interactive System for SPARQL Query Refinement Using Natural Language Explanations Xiangru Jian, Zhengyuan Dong, M. Tamer Özsu , arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02002 (2025)
[ICDE Demo 2026] Paper Github
LazyVLM: Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Video Analytics Xiangru Jian*, Wei Pang*, Zhengyuan Dong*, Chao Zhang*, M Tamer Özsu , ICDE Demo Track (2026)
[ICLR 2026] Paper Github Dataset MainPage
GraphOmni: A Comprehensive and Extendable Benchmark Framework for Large Language Models on Graph-theoretic Tasks Hao Xu*, Xiangru Jian*, Xinjian Zhao*, Wei Pang*, Chao Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Qixin Zhang, Zhengyuan Dong, Joao Monteiro, Bang Liu, Qiuzhuang Sun, Tianshu Yu , International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
[Preprint] Github Paper Docker Poster ISMB Poster ICIBM
BioMANIA: Simplifying bioinformatics data analysis through conversation Zhengyuan Dong, Victor Zhong, and Yang Lu , bioRxiv (2023)

Reviewer, ACL ARR, ACL/ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR/CVPR workshop (2025 - present)
Reviewer, TMM, Pattern Recognition (2025 - present)
Reviewer, ICME, KDD, MLSys (2026 - present)
Academic Graduate Mentor, UR2PHD Program , University of Waterloo (2025 - present)

Mentor, CS 399 Readings in Computer Science (F25)
Teaching Assistant, CS 348 Introduction to Database Systems (S24, S25, F25)
Teaching Assistant, CS 136 Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction (W24, F24, W25)
Teaching Assistant, CS 234 Data Types and Structures (S26)

2025 Dec. An Interactive Tool for SPARQL Query Refinement Using Natural Language Explanations at OnDBD 2025
2025 Nov. Raw Table Synthesis through Decomposition at CAN-CWIC
2025 Jul. Semantic Table Discovery in Model Lakes: A Benchmark at DSG Talk & Ph.D. Seminar Talk , University of Waterloo
2025 Mar. Introduction to Data Lakes and Tabular Data in NLP at R2L Lab
2024 Oct. Scientific Discovery Agent at R2L Lab
2024 Jul. BioMANIA: Simplifying Bioinformatics Data Analysis (Poster) at ISMB
2024 Jan. Language Model Pretraining at CS886 Presentation