Deming Sheng  /  η››εΎ·ζ˜Ž

I am a PhD student at Duke University in the United States, supervised by Prof. Ricardo Henao. I am currently working on Biostatistics.

Previously, I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), supervised by Prof. Jingling Yuan. I was selected as one of the Top 10 Outstanding WUT Graduate Representatives (10/13678), and my Master's thesis was rated as an Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis of WUT (Top 2%).

My research interests include but are not limited to Biostatistics, Artificial Intelligence and Survival Analysis. I have published 11 papers (5 as the first author) at the both international and Chinese AI conferences and journals, for example, FGCS (JCR Q1, IF=7.307).

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πŸ”₯ News

  • 05/2025: Our paper is accepted by ICML 2025, see you in Vancouver πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦!
  • 05/2024: I received the Fully Funded PhD offer (Duke PhD Fellowship) from Duke University, see you in Durham πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ!
  • 03/2023: I received the Fully Funded PhD offer (KAUST PhD Fellowship) from KAUST, see you in Jeddah πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦!
  • 06/2022, I was selected as one of the Top 10 Outstanding WUT Graduate Representatives (10/13678)!
  • 05/2022, My Master's thesis was rated as an Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis of WUT (2%)!
  • 05/2022, I was honoured with Youth May Fourth Medal of WUT (33/48555)!
  • 08/2021, Our paper "ACMF: An Attention Collaborative Extended Matrix Factorization Based Model for MOOC Course Service via a Heterogeneous View" is accepted by FGCS (JCR Q1, IF=7.307)! paper link.

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    πŸ“ Research

       Selected Papers:   

    Educational Data Mining  /  Recommender Systems

    ACMF: An Attention Collaborative Extended Matrix Factorization Based Model for MOOC Course Service via a Heterogeneous View
    Deming Sheng, Jingling Yuan πŸ“§, Lin Li, Qing Xie.
    Future Generation Computer Systems (JCR Q1, IF=7.307), 2022.
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    ACMF can effectively improve the recommendation performance and relieve the sparsity and imbalance issue in MOOC scenarios.

    Natural Language Processing  /  Educational Data Mining

    Grasping or Forgetting? MAKT: A Dynamic Model via Multi-head Self-Attention for Knowledge Tracing
    Deming Sheng, Jingling Yuan πŸ“§, Xin Zhang.
    SEKE (Core B), 2021, Oral Presentation.
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    MAKT can leverage the historical learning interactions to effectively predict student performance on future exercises and dynamically track the student knowledge state.

    Natural Language Processing  /  Educational Data Mining

    How MOOC Videos Affect Dropout? A Lightweight Pipeline Making Student Dropout Interpretable From Several Levels
    Deming Sheng, Jingling Yuan πŸ“§, Xin Zhang.
    SEKE (Core B), 2021, Oral Presentation.
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    We devise a lightweight pipeline to simplify the MOOC dropout problem, grasp the core features to make student behaviours interpretable from several levels.

    Natural Language Processing  /  Sentiment Analysis

    An Efficient Long Chinese Text Sentiment Analysis Method Using BERT-Based Models with BiGRU
    Deming Sheng, Jingling Yuan πŸ“§.
    CSCWD (Core B), 2021, Oral Presentation.
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    We adopt a BiGRU network to fuse N BERT-based models and further utilizes attention mechanism to obtain effective core sentiments of the long Chinese texts.

    Educational Data Mining  /  Recommender Systems

    MOOCRec: An Attention Meta-path Based Model for Top-K Recommendation in MOOC
    Deming Sheng, Jingling Yuan πŸ“§, Qing Xie, Pei Luo.
    KSEM (Core B), 2020, Oral Presentation .
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    MOOCRec can offer abundant course resources under the guidance of multiple meta-paths based contexts, which enable it to exploit the heterogeneity of HINs in MOOC.

       Projects:   

  • 04/2021 - 06/2022, Student-Centered MOOC Teaching Resources Dynamic Adaptive Management, Hubei Province Science and Technology Support Project, Main Participant, Grant No: 2015BAA072.
  • 06/2020 - 12/2021, Research on the Technical Route of Informatization Construction in Universities in the Next Five to Ten Years, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Main Participant, Grant No: 2020IVB069.
  • 01/2020 - 03/2021, Internet Fake News Detection, Independent Innovation Research Fund Project supported by Wuhan University of Technology, Leader, Grant No: 2020zy170.

    •    Reviewer:   

    Neural Computing and Applications 2022&2023&2024 (JCR Q1, IF=5.606).
    πŸ“– Educations

  • 09/2024 - Now, PhD student, Duke University, the United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ.
  • 08/2023 - 08/2024, PhD student (GPA: 4.0/4.0), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦.
  • 09/2019 - 06/2022, Master (GPA: 92.03%, Rank: 1/71), Wuhan University of Technology, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.
  • 09/2015 - 06/2019, Bachelor, Wuhan University of Technology, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.

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    πŸ† Honors and Awards

       Research Awards:   
  • 06/2022, Top Ten Outstanding Graduate Representatives of WUT (10/13678).
  • 05/2022, Outstanding Master’s Degree Thesis of WUT (Top 2%).
  • 04/2022, Outstanding Master Graduate of WUT (Top 5%).
  • 06/2019, Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate of WUT.
    •    Competitions:   
  • 08/2018, National First Prize of The 11-th China National College Student Computer Design Competition.
  • 12/2020, National Second Prize of The 17-th China National Postgraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
  • 12/2019, University-level Second Prize of The 5-th WUT Postgraduate Entrepreneurship Challenge.
  • 01/2016, University-level Third Prize of The WUT Psychological Sitcom Contest (Director).
  • 12/2014, Municipal First Prize of The 31-st National High School Physics Olympiad.
  • 05/2014, Provincial Third Prize of The 2014 Zhejiang High School Mathematics Olympiad.
    •    Scholarships:   
  • 03/2023, KAUST PhD Fellowship (167 people worldwide for the 2023 academic year).
  • 12/2021, National Scholarship for Postgraduate (Top 0.2%).
  • 11/2016, National Endeavor Scholarship (Top 3%).
  • 10/2021&2020&2019, The First Prize Scholarship of WUT x3.
    •    Student Services:   
  • 05/2022, Youth May Fourth Medal of WUT (33/48555).
  • 06/2021&2020, Outstanding Cadre of WUT Student Association x2 (Top 0.5%).
  • 12/2021, Outstanding Postgraduate Student Cadre of WUT (Top 2%).
  • 12/2020, Merit Postgraduate Student of WUT (Top 10%).
  • 11/2016, Merit College Student of WUT.
  • 09/2003-06/2015, Merit Student x 22.
    •    Working Honors:   
  • 03/2023, Best Apprentice Award of ICBC. (Top 1 of ICBC Product Department).
  • 08/2022, Excellent Cadre of ICBC (Top 4%, Study Secretary of new employees).
  • 08/2022, Excellent New Employee of ICBC.

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    πŸ’¬ Talks and Presentations

  • 01/2022, 2022 IMPRS-IS PhD Interview Symposium, Stuttgart, Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ (Top 10% of 1900+ applicants). slide.
  • 07/2021, SEKE2021 Oral Presentation x2, KSIR Virtual Conference Center, Pittsburgh, USA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ. slide1  /  slide2.
  • 05/2021, CSCWD2021 Oral Presentation, Dalian, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³. slide.
  • 08/2020, KSEM2020 Oral Presentation, Hangzhou, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³. slide.

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    πŸ’» Work and Intern

  • 07/2022-05/2023, Financial Technology Assistant Manager, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.
  • 04/2022, Research Intern (Natural Language Processing and Semantic Reasoning Track), Bosch AI Center, Stuttgart, Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ [Canceled, due to COVID-19].
  • 03/2020-06/2020 & 03/2021-06/2021, Teaching Assistant of Discrete Mathematics Course, WUT, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.
  • 09/2019-06/2021, President of the College’s Science and Technology Association, WUT, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.

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    ❀️ Society Services (Volunteer No: 431385594)

  • 12/2023, Volunteer for KAUST Commencement 2023, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦.
  • 06/2021, Volunteer for Chinese College Entrance Examination school filling consulting, Wuhan, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.
  • 09/2016-12/2016, Volunteer tutoring for stay-at-home children, Wuhan, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.
  • 11/2015, Volunteer for Wuhan Heping Nursing Home, Wuhan, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.
  • 11/2015&03/2016&10/2016, Volunteer newspaper seller to raise money for the disabled, Wuhan, China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³.

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