Contact Information
2116 Siebel Center
201 N Goodwin
M/C 258
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Donald Biggar Willett Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Professor, Statistics
Professor, School of Information Sciences
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Liu, J., Huang, Z., Liu, Q., Ma, Z., Zhai, C., & Chen, E. (2025). Knowledge-Centered Dual-Process Reasoning for Math Word Problems With Large Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 37(6), 3457-3471. https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2025.3556367
Sun, C., Yang, K., Reddy, R. G., Fung, Y. R., Chan, H. P., Small, K., Zhai, C. X., & Ji, H. (2025). Persona-DB: Efficient Large Language Model Personalization for Response Prediction with Collaborative Data Refinement. In O. Rambow, L. Wanner, M. Apidianaki, H. Al-Khalifa, B. Di Eugenio, & S. Schockaert (Eds.), Main Conference (pp. 281-296). (Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING; Vol. Part F206484-1). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Alvarez, D. E., & Zhai, C. X. (2024). Hypergraph of Text: A Mathematical Structure for Organizing and Analyzing Big Text Data. In W. Ding, C.-T. Lu, F. Wang, L. Di, K. Wu, J. Huan, R. Nambiar, J. Li, F. Ilievski, R. Baeza-Yates, & X. Hu (Eds.), Proceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2024 (pp. 8605-8607). (Proceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2024). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData62323.2024.10824995
Balog, K., & Zhai, C. X. (2024). Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web. In WWW 2024 Companion - Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (pp. 1254-1257). (WWW 2024 Companion - Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3641243
Bhavya, B., Sehgal, S., Xiong, J., & Zhai, C. X. (2024). AnaDE1.0: A Novel Data Set for Benchmarking Analogy Detection and Extraction. In Y. Graham, M. Purver, & M. Purver (Eds.), EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 1723-1737). (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference; Vol. 1). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).