👋 Yimin SHI
yiminshi📮u.🦁.edu; 施熠民

Uji, Kyoto
Hi!👋 I’m Yimin, a second-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at the National University of Singapore (NUS🦁), fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Xiao Xiaokui.
Previously, I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science & Engineering with honors from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (LGU🐲) in 2021, graduating third in my major. Before starting my Ph.D. in 2023, I completed my master’s degree at NUS, where I explored AI-assisted stream processing systems with the TikTok Infra group.
My current research focuses on LLM-assisted data management, information retrieval, and conversational agent systems.
Feel free to drop me an email if you have any questions or opportunities!
news
Jun 23, 2025 | 🎉 Our paper “ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries” has been accepted by VLDB 2025 Research track! 🇬🇧 |
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May 16, 2025 | 🎉 Our paper “A Framework for Evaluating AI Agents in Open-Ended Conversations via Scripted Simulation” has been accepted by KDD 2025 Benchmark track! 🇨🇦 |
Apr 05, 2025 | 🎉 Our paper “You Are What You Bought: Generating Customer Personas for E-commerce Applications” has been accepted by SIGIR 2025 Full Papers track! 🇮🇹 |
Dec 24, 2024 | 🌞 Passed the PhD Qualification Exam, being a PhD candidate! 🍕 |
Aug 01, 2023 | 🌞 Started the PhD journey at NUS under the supervision of Prof. Xiaokui Xiao! |
selected pubs
- A Framework for Evaluating AI Agents in Open-Ended Conversations via Scripted SimulationIn Proceedings of the 31th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025
- ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification QueriesProceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025