Education

• Ph.D. Student at Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University
  June 2021 - Now      College Station, TX
  Advised by Prof. James Caverlee.
  
  
• Master of Engineering at Information Engineering, Waseda University
  Sep 2017 - Sep 2019       Tokyo, Japan
  Advised by Prof. Kamata Sei-ichiro.
  
  
• Bachelor at School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University
  Sept 2014 - July 2018       Nanjing, China
  Special Class for the Gifted Young, Chien-Shiung Wu Honor College.

Experiences

1. Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon
   Automated Marketing and Engineering Team
   Sep 2024 - Nov 2024      Seattle, WA
   
   
2. Research Intern at NEC Labs America
   Machine Learning Department
   May 2024 - Aug 2024      Princeton, NJ
   Mentor: Dr. Martin Renqiang Min and Dr. Christopher Malon.
   
   
3. Research Intern at NEC Labs America
   Machine Learning Department
   May 2023 - Aug 2023      Princeton, NJ
   Mentor: Dr. Martin Renqiang Min.
   
   
4. Research Intern at Baidu Research
   Big Data Lab
   June 2020 - Aug 2020      Beijing, China
   Mentored by Dr. Haoyi Xiong and Prof. Dejing Dou.

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution.)
1. A Survey on LLMs for Story Generation. [Github]
   Maria Teleki, Vedangi Bengali*, Xiangjue Dong*, Sai Tejas Janjur*, Haoran Liu*, Tian Liu, Cong Wang, Ting Liu, Yin Zhang, Frank Shipman, James Caverlee
   EMNLP 2025 Findings.
   
   
2. LLMs for Customized Offsite Marketing Content Generation and Evaluation at Scale. [Paper]
   Haoran Liu, Amir Tahmasbi, Ehtesham Sam Haque, Purak Jain.
   KDD LLM4ECommerce Workshop 2025.
   
   
3. MKG-Rank: Enhancing Large Language Models with Knowledge Graph for Multilingual Medical Question Answering. [Paper]
   Feiyang Li, Yingjian Chen, Haoran Liu, Rui Yang, Han Yuan, Yuang Jiang, Tianxiao Li, Edison Marrese Taylor,
   Hossein Rouhizadeh, Yusuke Iwasawa, Douglas Teodoro, Yutaka Matsuo, Irene Li
   Preprint.
   
   
4. GraphCheck: Breaking Long-Term Text Barriers with Extracted Knowledge Graph-Powered Fact-Checking. [Paper]
   Yingjian Chen*, Haoran Liu*, Yinhong Liu, Rui Yang, Han Yuan, Yanran Fu, Pengyuan Zhou, Qingyu Chen,
   James Caverlee, Irene Li.
   ACL 2025 Main.
   
   
5. Learning Disentangled Equivariant Representation for Explicitly Controllable 3D Molecule Generation. [Paper]
   Haoran Liu, Youzhi Luo, Tianxiao Li, James Caverlee, Martin Renqiang Min
   AAAI 2025.
   
   
6. Masculine Defaults via Gendered Discourse in Podcasts and Large Language Models. [Project Website] [Paper]
   Maria Teleki, Xiangjue Dong, Haoran Liu, James Caverlee
   ICWSM 2025. Also selected as parallel talk in IC2S2.
   
   
7. KG-Rank: Enhancing Large Language Models for Medical QA with Knowledge Graphs and Ranking Techniques. [Paper]
   Rui Yang, Haoran Liu, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Qingcheng Zeng, Yu He Ke, Wanxin Li, Lechao Cheng, Qingyu Chen,
   James Caverlee, Yutaka Matsuo, Irene Li
   BioNLP@ACL 2024.
   
   
8. Everything Perturbed All at Once: Enabling Differentiable Graph Attacks. [Paper]
   Haoran Liu, Bokun Wang, Jianling Wang, Xiangjue Dong, Tianbao Yang, James Caverlee
   WWW 2024.
   
   
9. Gradient-Guided Importance Sampling for Learning Binary Energy-Based Models. [Paper]
   Meng Liu, Haoran Liu, Shuiwang Ji
   ICLR 2023
   
   
10. Learning Hierarchical Protein Representations via Complete 3D Graph Networks. [Paper] [Code]
    Limei Wang*, Haoran Liu*, Yi Liu, Jerry Kurtin, Shuiwang Ji
    ICLR 2023
    
    
11. ComENet: Towards Complete and Efficient Message Passing for 3D Molecular Graphs. [Paper] [Code]
    Limei Wang*, Yi Liu*, Yuchao Lin, Haoran Liu, Shuiwang Ji
    NeurIPS 2022
    
    
12. DIG: A Turnkey Library for Diving into Graph Deep Learning Research. [Paper] [Code]
    Meng Liu, Youzhi Luo, Limei Wang, Yaochen Xie, Hao Yuan, Shurui Gui, Haiyang Yu, Zhao Xu, Jingtun Zhang, Yi Liu, Keqiang Yan,
    Haoran Liu, Cong Fu, Bora Oztekin, Xuan Zhang, Shuiwang Ji
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2022
    
    
13. Exploring the Common Principal Subspace of Deep Features in Neural Networks. [Paper]
    Haoran Liu, Haoyi Xiong, Yaqing Wang, Haozhe An, Dejing Dou
    Machine Learning Journal (MLJ), 2022
    
    
14. Edge-guided Hierarchically Nested Network for Real-time Semantic Segmentation. [Paper]
    Yuqi Li, Sei-Ichiro Kamata, Haoran Liu
    ICSIPA 2019
    Best Paper Award
    
    
15. Hybrid Featured based Pyramid Structured CNN for Texture Classification. [Paper]
    Haoran Liu, Sei-Ichiro Kamata, Yuqi Li
    ICSIPA 2019
    
    

Awards

• Department of Computer Science & Engineering Travel Award. 2023, 2024, 2025
• CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women. 2024
• D. E. Shaw Research Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2023
• Best Paper Award. ICSIPA. 2019.
• IPS Special Scholarship for International Student. Waseda University. 2017-2018.
• Foundation for the Advancement of Industry, Science and Technology (FAIS) Scholarship. 2017-2018.
• Second Prize in National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest. 2016.

Services

Conference reviewer: NeurIPS (23', 24'), ICLR (23', 24', 25'), ICML (24', 25'), KDD (23'), SIGIR(23'), LoG (22', 23', 24'), NeurIPS Dataset and Benchmark Track (22', 23', 24'), CVPR (24', 25'), ICDM (20'), etc.
Jounal reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.