Zhengyuan Dong

Zhengyuan Dong

Ph.D. Candidate, Data Systems Group Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Advisor: Prof. Renée J. Miller

My Research Interests: Information Retrieval, Data Agent, Multimodal Data, Data Discovery

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

  • 2026 Nov. Will attend CAN-CWiC 2026 — welcome to connect there.
  • 2026 Sep. Attending VLDB 2026 — looking forward to connecting with you there.

Publications

  • [Preprint] PaperGitHubDemo
    ModelLakeFishing: Efficient Retrieval over Million-Scale Model Lakes Xiaoyang Liu, Zhengyuan Dong, Renée J. Miller ,  arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.04904 (2026)
  • [NeurIPS 2026] PaperGitHubDatasetPage
    TRL-Bench: Standardizing Cross-Paradigm Representation-Level Evaluation of Tabular Encoders Wei Pang, Xiangru Jian, Hehan Li, Zhixuan Yu, Alex Xue, Jinyang Li, Zhengyuan Dong, Xinjian Zhao, Hao Xu, Chao Zhang, Reynold Cheng, M. Tamer Özsu, Tianshu Yu ,  arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.09323 (2026)
  • [VLDB TaDA workshop 2026] PaperGithubPosterVideo
    Diversed Model Discovery via Structured Table Discovery Zhengyuan Dong, Renée J. Miller ,  arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22766 (2026)
  • [Preprint] PaperHuggingFaceGithubPoster
    ModelTables: A Corpus of Tables about Models Zhengyuan Dong, Victor Zhong, Renée J. Miller ,  arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.16106 (2025)
  • [Findings of ACL 2026] PaperSymposiumPoster
    InteracSPARQL: An Interactive System for SPARQL Query Refinement Using Natural Language Explanations Xiangru Jian, Zhengyuan Dong, M. Tamer Özsu ,  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 29599–29624, July 2026
  • [ICDE Demo 2026] PaperGithubPoster
    LazyVLM: Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Video Analytics Xiangru Jian*, Wei Pang*, Zhengyuan Dong*, Chao Zhang*, M Tamer Özsu ,  ICDE Demo Track (2026)
  • [ICLR 2026] PaperGithubDatasetPage
    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] GithubPaper v1Paper v2DockerPoster ISMBPoster ICIBM
    BioMANIA: Simplifying bioinformatics data analysis through conversation Zhengyuan Dong, Victor Zhong, and Yang Lu ,  bioRxiv (2023)

Service

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

Teaching

  • Mentor, CS 399 Readings in Computer Science (F25)
  • Teaching Assistant, CS 348 Introduction to Database Systems (S24, S25, F26)
  • Teaching Assistant, CS 136 Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction (W24, F24, W25)
  • Teaching Assistant, CS 234 Data Types and Structures (S26)

Honors

  • David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2026
  • Prov-Doc Entrance Award, University of Waterloo, 2024
  • International Doctoral Student Award (IDSA), University of Waterloo, 2024

Talks