👋 Yimin SHI

yiminshi📮u.🦁.edu; 施熠民

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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! 🇬🇧
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

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    You Are What You Bought: Generating Customer Personas for E-commerce Applications
    Yimin Shi, Yang Fei, Shiqi Zhang, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025
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    A Framework for Evaluating AI Agents in Open-Ended Conversations via Scripted Simulation
    Clarice Wang*, Yimin Shi*, and Xiaokui Xiao
    In Proceedings of the 31th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025
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    ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries
    Keke Huang, Yimin Shi, Dujian Ding, and 4 more authors
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025