About Me

My name is Shichen Li(李诗晨), a first-year Ph.D student at Soochow NLP Lab led by Guodong Zhou, fortunately supervised by Zhongqing Wang and Peifeng Li. I am also deeply grateful for the valuable guidance and support from Prof. Yue Zhang and Prof. Wei Lu. My past research primarily focused on fine-grained social media analysis, and now my goal has expanded to understanding human communication in social contexts, with the aim of aligning language models that better support for social good.

Experience

• 2024 - Now: Ph.D student at Soochow NLP Lab supervised by Zhongqing Wang and Peifeng Li.
• 2023 - 2024: Research intern at STAT NLP Lab in SUTD, supervised by Wei Lu.
• 2021 - 2024: Graduate student at Soochow NLP Lab supervised by Zhongqing Wang.
• 2018 - 2021: Research Assistant in MIPC advised by Wen Liu.
• 2017 - 2021: Undergraduate student at the School of Computer Science, WHUT.

Publications

Shichen Li, Zhongqing Wang, Zheyu Zhao, Yue Zhang, Peifeng Li. Exploring Model Editing for LLM-based Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification. AAAI 2025.

Yanzhi Xu, Yueying Hua, Shichen Li, Zhongqing Wang. Exploring Chain-of-Thought for Multi-modal Metaphor Detection. ACL 2024.

Tianduo Wang, Shichen Li, Wei Lu. Self-Training with Direct Preference Optimization Improves Chain-of-Thought Reasoning. ACL 2024.

Shichen Li, Zhongqing Wang, Yanzhi Xu, Guodong Zhou. Structure-aware Generation Model for Cross-Domain Aspect-based Sentiment Classification. COLING 2024.

Shichen Li, Zhongqing Wang, Xiaotong Jiang, and Guodong Zhou. Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification using Semantic Representation. EMNLP 2022.

Selected Awards

• Outstanding Scholarship, Soochow University, 2024.
• Excellent Graduate Students, Soochow University, 2024.
• Excellent Graduate Students, Wuhan University of Technology, 2021.
• 2nd prize, Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition, 2020.

Miscellaneous

I’m engaged (but an amateur) in Photography with a camera from FujiFilm! I enjoy taking street photographs, which is a great way to capture candid moments and tell stories through images. I also like to play badminton(but an amateur too)!