Yuan Zhong (钟原)
About Me
I am a third-year PhD student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State University. I am advised by Prof. Fenglong Ma. Previously, I obtained my Master's degree in Mathematical Finance at Boston University and my Bachelor's degree in Statistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign..
Research Interests
My recent research interests lie in Diffusion Models, Multimodal Generation, Generative Retrieval, Health Informatics, and LLMs.
News
- [05/2024] One paper accepted by KDD 2024!
- [04/2024] One paper accepted by IJCAI 2024!
- [03/2024] One paper accepted by SIGIR 2024!
- [05/2024] One paper accepted by KDD 2024!
- [12/2023] Two papers accepted by SDM 2024!
- [10/2023] One paper accepted by EMNLP 2023!
Selected Publications
(* indicates equal contribution)
Conference Papers
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Synthesizing Multimodal Electronic Health Records via Predictive Diffusion Models
Yuan Zhong, Xiaochen Wang, Jiaqi Wang, Xiaokun Zhang, Yaqing Wang, Mengdi Huai, Cao Xiao, Fenglong Ma
In Proceedings of the 30th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024)
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FineRec: Exploring Fine-grained Sequential Recommendation
Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Youlin Wu, Yuan Zhong, Hongfei Lin, Fenglong Ma
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)
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Recent Advances in Predictive Modeling with Electronic Health Records
Jiaqi Wang, Junyu Luo, Muchao Ye, Xiaochen Wang, Yuan Zhong, Aofei Chang, Guanjie Huang, Ziyi Yin, Cao Xiao, Jimeng Sun, Fenglong Ma
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024)
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MedDiffusion: Boosting Health Risk Prediction via Diffusion-based Data Augmentation
Yuan Zhong, Suhan Cui, Jiaqi Wang, Xiaochen Wang, Ziyi Yin, Yaqing Wang, Houping Xiao, Mengdi Huai, Ting Wang, Fenglong Ma
In Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2024)
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Automated Fusion of Multimodal Electronic Health Records for Better Medical Predictions
Suhan Cui, Jiaqi Wang, Yuan Zhong, Han Liu, Ting Wang, Fenglong Ma
In Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2024)
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Hierarchical Pretraining on Multimodal Electronic Health Records
Xiaochen Wang, Junyu Luo, Jiaqi Wang, Ziyi Yin, Suhan Cui, Yuan Zhong, Yaqing Wang, Fenglong Ma
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023)
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Other Paper
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Advancing Medical Multimodal Learning and Data Generation with Diffusion Model and LLM
Yuan Zhong
In Proceedings of the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Doctoral Consortium (AAAI 2025)
Honors & Award
Academic Service
Conference Program Committee/Reviewer
KDD 2025, ACL 2025,
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, SRA 365: Statistical Analysis for Information Sciences, PSU, 2022 Fall - Present