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Dec 2025 Our paper, “Why It Works: Can LLM Hypotheses Improve AI-Generated Marketing Content?”, was featured in Yale Insights.
Nov 2025 Invited talk “Why it Works: Can LLM Hypotheses Improve AI Generated Marketing Content?” at Amazon Advertising.
Sep 2025 Our paper “ProtoPairNet: Interpretable Regression through Prototypical Pair Reasoning” has been accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (main conference)
Oct 2023 Paper “Sparse and Faithful Explanations without Sparse Models” has been selected as the winner of the INFORMS 2023 Data Mining Best Paper Award Competition (General Track).
Aug 2023 An NSF grant was awarded to Tong as a Co-PI.
Aug 2023 Paper “Sparse and Faithful Explanations without Sparse Models” has been selected as one of the four finalists for the INFORMS 2023 Data Mining Best Paper Award Competition (General Track).