Tong Zhou

About Me

I am 2nd year MSCS student at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Lifu Huang. My research interest mainly focus on Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Multimodal Learning.

Research Interests

• Multimodal AI Systems: Applying Vision-Language models (VLMs) to practical applications.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Creating more efficient approaches to knowledge retrieval and question answering, particularly for complex multi-hop scenarios and legal AI Applications.
• Information Extraction: Developing novel frameworks for event extraction, with a focus on improving data efficiency.

Publications

• Boosting Event Extraction with Denoised Structure-to-Text Augmentation

  Bo Wang, Heyan Huang, Xiaochi Wei, Ge Shi, Xiao Liu, Chong Feng, Tong Zhou, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin

  ACL, 2023

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Education

• M.S. in Computer Science

  Virginia Tech

  Advisor: Lifu Huang

  2023.8-2025.5(Expected)

  

• Academic Exchange

  Nagoya University

  2021.4-2021.8

  

• B.S. in Electronic Information Engineering

  Beijing University of Technology

  Advisor: Ge Shi

  2018.9-2022.7

  

Awards and Honors

• Beijing Beijing Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award

  2022

• Ranked 78/2155 In The 14th IEEExtreme 24-hour Programming Competition

  2020

Professional Experience

• Research Assistant

  Virginia Tech

  • Video game bug detection via VLMs
  • Knowledge graph-enhanced retrieval-augmented question answering in legal domain
  

  2023.8-2025.5(Expected)

  

• NLP Engineer Intern

  Beijing Langboat Technology Co., LTD

  • Language model pre-training
  • Financial information extraction platform
  

  2021.9-2023.3