Haoyu Dong

About

I’m Haoyu Dong, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and AI. My work primarily revolves around developing deep learning models that enhance table understanding and reasoning. Gladly, our work, Neural Formatting for Spreadsheet Tables, was nominated for the best full research paper at CIKM’20. Recently, I’ve been concentrating on fine-tuning GPT on table applications in for Excel Copilot, especially our recent work Spreadsheet Encoding for LLMs  (#1 paper of the day at Hugging Face (opens in new tab)).

I had the pleasure of co-organizing the first, second, and third Table Representation Learning (TRL) workshops at NeurIPS in 2022, 2023, and 2024. I also served on the steering committee for the Tabular Data Analysis (TaDA) workshop at VLDB’23. Recently, I co-presented a tutorial on “Large Language Models for Tabular Data” (opens in new tab) with Zhiruo at the SIGIR’24 conference. And I gave a keynote on “Spreadsheet Intelligence and Tabular Data Analytics” with Shi at the VLDB’2024 TaDA workshop.

We’re looking for interns! If you’re interested, please feel free to reach out to me by email with your application. Thanks!