I am a PhD student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Professor Yuyu Luo. Previously, I obtained my bachelor’s degree from the Southern University of Science and Technology. My current research interest includes Text-to-SQL translation and evaluation.

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πŸ“ Publications

ARXIV 2025
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Alpha-SQL: Zero-Shot Text-to-SQL using Monte Carlo Tree Search
Boyan Li, Jiayi Zhang, Ju Fan, Yanwei Xu, Chong Chen, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo

ARXIV 2025
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NL2SQL-BUGs: A Benchmark for Detecting Semantic Errors in NL2SQL Translation
Xinyu Liu, Shuyu Shen, Boyan Li, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo

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ARXIV 2025
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nvBench 2.0: A Benchmark for Natural Language to Visualization under Ambiguity
Tianqi Luo, Chuhan Huang, Leixian Shen, Boyan Li, Shuyu Shen, Wei Zeng, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo

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CHI 2025
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Augmenting Realistic Charts with Virtual Overlays
Yao Shi, Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo, Lei Chen, Nan Tang

ARXIV 2024
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A Plug-and-Play Natural Language Rewriter for Natural Language to SQL
Peixian Ma, Boyan Li, Runzhi Jiang, Ju Fan, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo

ARXIV 2024
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A Survey of NL2SQL with Large Language Models: Where are we, and where are we going?
Xinyu Liu, Shuyu Shen, Boyan Li, Peixian Ma, Runzhi Jiang, Yuyu Luo, Yuxin Zhang, Ju Fan, Guoliang Li, Nan Tang

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VLDB 2024
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The Dawn of Natural Language to SQL: Are We Fully Ready?
Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo, Chengliang Chai, Guoliang Li, Nan Tang

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NIPS 2024
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Are Large Language Models Good Statisticians?
Yizhang Zhu, Shiyin Du, Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo, Nan Tang

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TNNLS 2024
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Efficient Deep Spiking Multi-Layer Perceptrons with Multiplication-Free Inference
Boyan Li, Luziwei Leng, Shuaijie Shen, Kaixuan Zhang, Jianguo Zhang, Jianxing Liao, Ran Cheng

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πŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2025.01: Merit Prize for the 2024 DSA Excellent Research Award.
  • 2023.07: Highest Honors in Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology.
  • 2023.07: Outstanding Graduates, Southern University of Science and Technology.

πŸ“– Educations

  • 2024.09 - Present, PhD Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
  • 2023.07 - 2024.09, Research Assistant, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
  • 2019.09 - 2023.07, Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology. (GPA 3.91/4.0, Ranking 2/183)

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