I'm Lingze, a Ph.D candidate in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS).
Advised by Prof. Ooi Beng Chin, I mainly work on:

• Deep learning for data-driven applications.
• Unified Analytics over structured and relatioinal data.
• AIxDB systems; In-database analytics.

[VLDB 2026]
NeurIDA: Dynamic Modeling for Effective In-Database Analytics [pdf]
Lingze Zeng, Shaofeng Cai, Naili Xing, Jiaqi Zhu, Gang Chen, Peng Lu, Jian Pei, Beng Chin Ooi.

[ICML 2026]
pTNAS: Progressive Neural Architecture Search for Tabular Data [pdf]
Naili Xing, Shaofeng Cai, Lingze Zeng, Jiaqi Zhu, Peng Lu, Jian Pei, Beng Chin Ooi.

[SIGMOD 2026]
NRBench:A Benchmark Suite for Learned Database Components with Drift Modeling [pdf]
Zhanhao Zhao, Haotian Gao, Naili Xing, Lingze Zeng, Meihui Zhang, Gang Chen, Manuel Rigger,
Beng Chin Ooi.

[ArXiv 2025]
From Schema to Signal: Retrieval-Augmented Modeling for Relational Data Analytics [pdf]
Lingze Zeng, Shaofeng Cai, Changshuo Liu, Zhongle Xie, Yuncheng Wu, Beng Chin Ooi

[ICML 2025]
NeuralCohort: Cohort-aware Neural Representation Learning for Healthcare Analytics. [pdf]
Changshuo Liu, Lingze Zeng, Kaiping Zheng, Shaofeng Cai, Beng Chin Ooi, James Wei Luen Yip.

[VLDB 2025]
Powering In-database Dynamic Model Slicing for Structured Data Analytics [pdf]
Lingze Zeng, Naili Xing, Shaofeng Cai, Gang Chen, Beng Chin Ooi, Jian Pei, Yuncheng Wu.

[Science China 2024]
NeurDB: an AI-powered autonomous data system [pdf]
Beng Chin Ooi, Shaofeng Cai, Gang Chen, Kian Lee Tan, Yuncheng Wu, Xiaokui Xiao, Naili Xing,
Cong Yue, Lingze Zeng, Meihui Zhang, Zhanhao Zhao.

[ICCV 2023]
Multi-label classification with long-tailed distribution and partial labels [pdf]
Wenqiao Zhang, Changshuo Liu, Lingze Zeng, Beng Chin Ooi, Siliang Tang, Yuncheng Wu.

[DASFAA 2022]
A two-phase approach for recognizing tables with complex structures [link]
Huichao Li, Lingze Zeng, Weiyu Zhang, Jianing Zhang, Ju Fan, Meihui Zhang.

[APWeb 2022]
Synbert: Chinese synonym discovery on privacy-constrain medical terms with pre-trained bert [link]
Lingze Zeng, Chang Yao, Meihui Zhang, Zhongle Xie.

National University of Singapore (NUS) 2023 - Present   

• Ph.D. in Computer Science
• School of Computing
• Advisor: Prof. Ooi Beng Chin

Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) 2016 - 2020   

• BSc in Software Engineering
• School of Computer Science and Technology
• Advisor: Prof. Zhang Meihui

National University of Singapore (NUS) 2022 - 2023   

• Research Assistant
• Topics: Data Engine for Cohort Analysis; Relational Data Analytics
• Cohort OLAP system (COOL) [pdf] [website]

Institute of Computing Innovation, Zhejiang University (ZJU) 2020 - 2021   

• Research Assistant
• Topics: Named Entity Recognition; Medical Synonym Discovery
• CHIP 2021 Competition Task 1. Rank 1st Solution. [code]
• NLP open-source tool ark-nlp ;
• Mentor: Dr. Xie Zhongle