Hi!👋 My name is Zhuowen Liang (梁卓文), I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Data Intelligence and Analytics Lab, Data Science and Analytics Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(Guangzhou), advised by Prof. Nan Tang. I am currently interning at Alibaba Token Foundry, working on data agent and skills. I received my bachelor degree from School of Computer Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology in 2025. I used to be a research assistant in HKUST-CIVAL group at HKUST(GZ), advised by Prof. Wei Zeng.

My current research lies on Document Intelligence, Information Extraction, and Data Agent, with an emphasis on enabling AI systems to understand and reason over complex, multimodal documents. I am also very interested in research fields including Post Training, Reinforcement Learning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Data mining.

You can find my application CV here: Zhuowen Liang’s Curriculum Vitae.

🔥 News

📑 Selected Publications

(* indicates co-first authorship)

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  Long-Document QA with Chain-of-Structured-Thought and Fine-Tuned SLMs
  Zhuowen Liang, Xiaotian Lin, Zhengxuan Zhang, Yuyu Luo, Haixun Wang, Nan Tang
  ICLR 2026 (CCF-A) Paper Code
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  DocPilot: Interactive Agent Orchestration and Training for Long Visual Document Understanding
  Zhuowen Liang, Xiaotian Lin, Yuyu Luo, Haixun Wang, Nan Tang
  arXiv 2026 Paper Code
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  Beyond Tables: Doc2DB-Bench for Relationally Faithful Document-to-Database Construction
  Zhuowen Liang, Zhengxuan Zhang, Jiayang Wang, Jiazhuo Chen, Nan Tang
  arXiv 2026 Paper Code
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  DataSpace: Benchmarking Data Agents for Verifiable Analytics over Heterogeneous Workspaces
  Boyan Li^*, Zhuowen Liang^*, Yupeng Xie^*, Xiaotian Lin,...,Nan Tang, Guoliang Li, Yuyu Luo
  arXiv 2026 Paper Code Leaderboard
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  Document-to-Database: Extraction Meets Relational Semantics
  Zhengxuan Zhang, Zhuowen Liang, Jiazhuo Chen, Haixun Wang, Nan Tang
  VLDB 2026 (CCF-A) Paper Code
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  Towards Consumer-Grade Cybersickness Prediction: Multi-Model Alignment for Real-Time Vision-Only Inference
  Yitong Zhu, Zhuowen Liang, Yiming Wu, Tangyao Li, Yuyang Wang
  ACM MM 2025 (CCF-A) Paper

🎓 Education

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
  Ph.D. student in Data Science and Analytics, 2025-Present

• South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
  BE in Computer Science & Technology (Elite Class), 2021-2025
  GPA: 3.93/4.0

🔎 Experience

• Alibaba (Hangzhou)
  Research Assistant @ Token Foundry, 2026.6~2026.9
  Research Topic: Data Agent, Agentic Skills
  

  

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  Research Intern @ Data Intelligence and Analytics Lab, 2024.10~Present
  Research Topic: Structured Reasoning combined with RAG
  Advisor: Prof. Nan Tang

  

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  Research Intern @ HKUST-CIVAL group, 2024.1~2024.9
  Research Topic: Multimodal Alignment & GraphRAG
  Advisor: Prof. Wei Zeng

  

• South China University of Technology
  Project Topic: Resident Useful Life prediction based on CNN & LSTM, 2023.11~2024.4
  Advisor: Prof. Fang Li

🏆 Honors & Awards

• Best Project Runner-up (DSAA 6000 Course, Table Representation Learning), 2026
• Chair of the first DSA Table Talks (ICLR 2026 topic), 2026
• Tencent Enterprise First Price Scholarship, 2023 (5k RMB, Top 2% at SCUT)
• The First Price Scholarship, 2023
• The Second Price Scholarship, 2022 & 2024 (two times)
• Merit Student, 2022 & 2023 (two times)
• Excellent League Member, 2022 & 2023 & 2024 (three times)
• Chinese Mathematics Competitions(Guangdong): First Prize, 2022
• Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling(APMCM): Third Prize, 2023
• MathorCup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge: Third Prize, 2023
• China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling(Guangdong): Third Prize, 2022

🚶 Services

• Committee Chair of KDD Cup 2026 (Data Agents for Complex Data Analysis Track)
• Web Chair of VLDB 2026 Satellite Event
• Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2026, ICLR 2027