IDEA Lab Hosted Workshop and Received Best Poster Paper Award at IEEE ICDM 2025 in Washington DC
- Zhou Yuhan
- 4 days ago
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IDEA lab Ph.D. students Ruochi Li and Haoxuan Zhang, along with faculty Professor Jiangping Chen, attended the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), the world’s premier research conference in data mining, which took place in Washington DC, USA, from November 12-15, 2025.
Best Poster Paper Award
The students presented their research paper “Unveiling the Merits and Defects of LLMs in Automatic Review Generation for Scientific Papers,” which received the Best Poster Paper Award in the Regular Paper Session at the conference. This collaborative work was co-authored with Dr. Edward Gehringer from North Carolina State University and IDEA lab faculty members Dr. Ting Xiao, Dr. Junhua Ding, and Dr. Haihua Chen.
The paper addresses a critical challenge in academic publishing by systematically analyzing the capabilities and limitations of large language models in generating peer reviews for scientific papers. This research contributes to understanding how AI can assist in the scholarly communication process while identifying areas where human expertise remains essential.
Hosting DMAIL 2025 Workshop
Alongside attending the main conference, IDEA lab successfully hosted the First International Workshop on Data Mining and AI for Law (DMAIL), held as an official workshop of IEEE ICDM 2025. This inaugural workshop established a new platform for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of data mining, artificial intelligence, and legal applications.
IDEA lab faculty Dr. Haihua Chen and Dr. Yang Zhang from the University of North Texas served as workshop co-chairs, collaborating with distinguished international researchers, including Professor Ken Satoh and Dr. Nguyen Ha Thanh from the National Institute of Informatics, Japan; Dr. Joel Niklaus from the University of Bern, Switzerland; and Sabine Wehnert from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. IDEA lab Professor Jiangping Chen from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign served as local chair, while Ph.D. student Haoxuan Zhang served as website chair for the workshop.
The workshop brought together researchers, practitioners, and legal professionals to explore innovative applications of data mining and AI technologies in legal contexts, fostering discussions on topics ranging from legal document analysis to predictive modeling in judicial systems.
