I will be a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), under the supervision of Prof. Shuai Wang, where I also received my Ph.D. Prior to this appointment, I was a visiting scholar at Sky Lab at UC Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Alvin Cheung. I have also worked as Chief AI Scientist at Myko, an AI startup. I received my B.Eng. from the Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute. My research interests include data management and software engineering.
I can be reached at pmaab at cse dot ust dot hk.
Publications
The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024 Main)arXiv
ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA ’24)Code
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB ’24)Code
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP ’23 Demo Track)arXiv
Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ’23)arXivPress (in Chinese)Code
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ’23)Code
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)Code
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME ’22)Code
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)Code
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’22)Code
International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE ’22)Code
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)Code
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)Code
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ’22)
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB ’22)Code
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’21)LinkExtended VersionReference Implementation
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ’20)Code
Preprint
† means corresponding author.
Award and Grant
- Researcher Access Program, OpenAI, 2024
- Overseas Research Award, HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, 2024
- UGC Research Travel Grant, 2023-24 Academic Year.
- Future of Life Institute Travel Support, 2024.
- UGC Research Travel Grant, 2022-23 Academic Year.
- SIGMOD Student Travel Award, April 2023.
- AISTATS "Top Reviewer", February 2023.
- Microsoft Research Asia "Star of Tomorrow" Award, December 2022.
- Microsoft Research Asia "Star of Tomorrow" Award, March 2022.
- NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant, March 2022.
Experience
- Visiting Scholar, Sky Lab, UC Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Alvin Cheung, 2024,4 - present
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, mentored by Justin Ding, 2022.6 - 2022.11
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, mentored by Justin Ding, 2021.6 - 2022.4
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, mentored by Justin Ding, 2019.12 - 2020.6
Patents
- Shuai Wang and Pingchuan Ma. New Approach to Detect and Fix Unethical Outputs of Large Language Models. US Provisional Patent. IP.PA.02101. Filing Date: 28 April 2024
Talk
- Elevating Exploratory Data Analysis in The Era of Large Language Model, Huawei, 15 Dec, 2023.
- Learning Causal Skeleton from Vicinal Graphs, Microsoft Research Asia, 5 Aug, 2022.
- Towards Dependable and Transparent Data Analytics Platforms, Microsoft Research Asia, 10 Mar, 2022.
- Automated Fairness Testing and Beyond, Microsoft Research Asia Causality Reading Group, 6 Sept, 2021.
- Metamorphic Testing and Certified Mitigation of Fairness Violations in NLP Models (in Chinese), AI Time, 15 Jan, 2021.
Academic Service
Conference Program Committee Member/Reviewer
- 2025: CHI, ICLR, AISTATS
- 2024: NeurIPS, KDD, ECML/PKDD, ACL Rolling Review, SDM, NeurIPS Ethics Review, ACML
- 2023: KDD, AISTATS, NeurIPS Ethics Review, ECML/PKDD, FAccT, SIGMOD ARI, Queer in AI @ ACL, PETS Artifact Evaluation
- 2022: PETS Artifact Evaluation, ISSTA Artifact Evaluation, EuroSys Artifact Evaluation
Journal Reviewer
- Harvard Data Science Review, Scientific Reports, Journal of Systems & Software (JSS), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant, COMP4901N: Competitive Programming in Cybersecurity (Fall 2021)
- Teaching Assistant, COMP6613C: Topics in Computer Security and Privacy (Spring 2021)