Yuan Zhong (钟原) 

Conference Papers

• GrocLM: Grocery Category Recommendation in E-Commerce with Large Language Models
  Yuan Zhong, Chuanwei Ruan, Moein Hasani, Tejaswi Tenneti, Haixun Wang, Fenglong Ma
  In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
  
• A Cascaded Generative Approach for e-Commerce Recommendations
  Moein Hasani, Hamidreza Shahidi, Trace Levinson, Yuan Zhong, Guanghua Shu, Vinesh Gudla, Tejaswi Tenneti
  In Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026)
  
• MedDiTPro: A Prompt-Guided Diffusion Transformer for Multimodal Longitudinal Medical Data Synthesis
  Yuan Zhong, Xiaochen Wang, Jiaqi Wang, Xiaokun Zhang, Fenglong Ma
  In Proceedings of the 31st SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2025)
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• Unity in Diversity: Collaborative Pre-training Across Multimodal Medical Sources
  Xiaochen Wang, Junyu Luo, Jiaqi Wang, Yuan Zhong, Xiaokun Zhang, Yaqing Wang, Parminder Bhatia, Cao Xiao, Fenglong Ma
  In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (ACL 2024)
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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

• 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 & Awards

• IST Student Travel Award, 2024

Academic Service

Conference Program Committee/Reviewer

KDD 2025, ACL 2025,

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, SRA 365: Statistical Analysis for Information Sciences, PSU, 2022 Fall - Present