Houming Chen

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, advised by H. V. Jagadish.

My research focuses on data management: helping people discover relevant data, match schemas across data sources, and understand the robustness of rankings. I am also interested in using large language models to support data discovery and integration.

Previously, I received my B.S. in Computer Science with Honors Mathematics from the University of Michigan and worked with Paramveer S. Dhillon on computational social science.

Publications & Preprints

1. ConStruM: A Structure-Guided LLM Framework for Context-Aware Schema Matching

   Houming Chen, Zhe Zhang, and H. V. Jagadish

   arXiv:2601.20482, 2026 · Preprint

2. The General Stability of Ranking

   Houming Chen and H. V. Jagadish

   arXiv:2607.01546, 2026 · Preprint

3. From Research Questions to Columns: Operationalization-Aware Data Discovery

   Houming Chen and H. V. Jagadish

   arXiv:2608.04536, 2026 · Preprint

4. Signals in the Noise: Decoding Unexpected Engagement Patterns on Twitter

   Yulin Yu, Houming Chen, Daniel M. Romero, and Paramveer S. Dhillon

   Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9(7), Article CSCW476, 2025