Second-year Ph.D. student · Emory University

Shengbo Gong

Data-efficient learning for language models and graphs.

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Informatics at Emory University, co-advised by Prof. Wei Jin and Prof. Carl Yang. Before joining Emory, I worked with Prof. Yifei Yao at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Prof. Qi Xuan at Zhejiang University of Technology.

Research interests
  • Data-Efficient LLMs
  • Graph Learning
  • Data-Centric AI

Outside research, I enjoy swimming, hiking, climbing, tabletop games, strategy games, films, and books.

01 / Latest

News

  • Our work on efficient RAG was accepted to ACL Findings 2026.
  • Our work on efficient graph condensation was accepted to KDD 2026.
  • Received NeurIPS travel funding.
  • GC4NC was accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
  • Presented graph reduction research at the SDM Doctoral Forum and received NSF travel funding.
  • Our co-first-author work on graph heterophily was accepted to TPAMI.
  • Received a Google Cloud Research Credits Award.
  • Our graph reduction survey was accepted to IJCAI 2024.

02 / Research

Selected Publications

Representative work spanning data-efficient LLMs, graph learning, and data-centric AI.

* Equal contribution.

03 / Experience

Internships

Applied Scientist Intern Amazon

Worked on foundation models for event streams and causal inference.

04 / Speaking

Public Presentations