Nan Huo

PhD Student @ The University of Hong Kong
Department of Computer Science
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Nan Huo

About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Reynold Cheng. I focus on building intelligent systems that bridge natural language and data. My research spans Text-to-SQL, Large Language Model Agents, and Interactive Data Analysis.

Text-to-SQL LLM Agents Interactive Data Analysis RAG

News

Oct 2024
📝 We're thrilled to share that our Bird-Interact paper is now publicly available! The paper presents the full details, methodology, and evaluation of our BIRD-Interact, and includes several insightful findings about model behaviors and interaction patterns.
Sep 2025
Started Applied Scientist Internship at Amazon, London
May 2025
1 paper accepted to ICML 2025
May 2025
2 papers accepted to ACL 2025 Main Conference

Education

PhD in Computer Science
Sep 2021 - Apr 2026 (Expected)
The University of Hong Kong
Master of Science in Computer Science
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
Johns Hopkins University
Student Intern
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Yale University
Bachelor of Engineering
Sep 2015 - Jun 2019
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Bell Honors School)

Selected Publications

BIRD-INTERACT: Re-imagining Text-to-SQL Evaluation via Lens of Dynamic Interactions
Nan Huo, Jinyang Li, Per Jacobsson, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Fatma Ozcan, Reynold Cheng, et al.
Preprint
Project Page
SWE-SQL: Illuminating LLM Pathways to Solve User SQL Issues in Real-World Applications
Jinyang Li*, Xiaolong Li*, Ge Qu*, Per Jacobsson, Bowen Qin, Binyuan Hui, Shuzheng Si, Nan Huo, et al.
Accepted by NeurIPS 2025
Project Page
Micro-Act: Mitigate Knowledge Conflict in Question Answering via Actionable Self-Reasoning
Nan Huo, Jinyang Li, Bowen Qin, Ge Qu, Xiaolong Li, Xiaodong Li, Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng
Accepted by ACL 2025 Main Conference
SHARE: An SLM-based Hierarchical Action CorREction Assistant for Text-to-SQL
Ge Qu, Jinyang Li, Bowen Qin, Xiaolong Li, Nan Huo, Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng
Accepted by ACL 2025 Main Conference
Tapilot-Crossing: Benchmarking and Evolving LLMs Towards Interactive Data Analysis Agents
Jinyang Li*, Nan Huo*, Yan Gao, Jiayi Shi, Yingxiu Zhao, Ge Qu, Bowen Qin, Yurong Wu, Xiaodong Li, Chenhao Ma, Jian-Guang Lou, Reynold Cheng
Accepted by ICML 2025; * Co-First Author
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ZeroEA: A Zero-Training Entity Alignment Framework via Pre-Trained Language Model
Nan Huo, Reynold Cheng, Ben Kao, Wentao Ning, Nur Al Hasan Haldar, Xiaodong Li, Jinyang Li, Mohammad Matin Najafi, Tian Li, Ge Qu
Accepted by VLDB 2024
Before Generation, Align it! A Novel and Effective Strategy for Mitigating Hallucinations in Text-to-SQL Generation
Ge Qu, Jinyang Li, Bowen Li, Bowen Qin, Nan Huo, Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng
Accepted by ACL 2024 Findings
Debiasing Recommendation with Personal Popularity
Wentao Ning, Reynold Cheng, Xiao Yan, Ben Kao, Nan Huo, Nur Al Hasan Haldar
Accepted by WWW 2024
Can LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs
Jinyang Li, Binyuan Hui, Ge Qu, Jiaxi Yang, Binhua Li, Bowen Li, Bailin Wang, Bowen Qin, Rongyu Cao, Ruiying Geng, Nan Huo, Xuanhe Zhou, Chenhao Ma, Guoliang Li, Kevin C.C. Chang, Fei Huang et al.
Accepted by NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight)
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Graphix-T5: Mixing Pre-Trained Transformers with Graph-Aware Layers for Text-to-SQL Parsing
Jinyang Li, Binyuan Hui, Reynold Cheng, Bowen Qin, Chenhao Ma, Nan Huo, Fei Huang, Wenyu Du, Luo Si, Yongbin Li
Accepted by AAAI 2023
Automatic Meta-Path Discovery for Effective Graph-Based Recommendation
Wentao Ning, Reynold Cheng, Jiajun Shen, Nur Al Hasan Haldar, Ben Kao, Xiao Yan, Nan Huo, Wai Kit Lam, Tian Li, Bo Tang
Accepted by CIKM 2022
Muskits: an End-to-End Music Processing Toolkit for Singing Voice Synthesis
Jiatong Shi, Shuai Guo, Tao Qian, Nan Huo, Tomoki Hayashi, Yuning Wu, Frank Xu, Xuankai Chang, Huazhe Li, Peter Wu, Shinji Watanabe, Qin Jin
Accepted by INTERSPEECH 2022
Sequence-to-sequence Singing Voice Synthesis with Perceptual Entropy Loss
Jiatong Shi, Shuai Guo, Nan Huo, Yuekai Zhang, Qin Jin
Accepted by ICASSP 2021
Context-aware Goodness of Pronunciation for Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training
Jiatong Shi, Nan Huo, Qin Jin
Accepted by INTERSPEECH 2020