Zhenyu Wu

About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Manchester, supervised by Prof. Norman Paton and Dr. Jiaoyan Chen. My research focuses on LLM-based methods for structured-data understanding, schema and taxonomy inference, and data discovery and exploration.

Selected Publications

Schema Inference for Tabular Data Repositories Using Large Language Models

Zhenyu Wu, Jiaoyan Chen, and Norman W. Paton

The VLDB Journal, 2026

Accepted

arXiv Bib Code

@article{wu2026schema,
  title = {Schema Inference for Tabular Data Repositories Using Large Language Models},
  author = {Wu, Zhenyu and Chen, Jiaoyan and Paton, Norman W.},
  journal = {The VLDB Journal},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Accepted},
}

Taxonomy Inference for Tabular Data Using Large Language Models

Zhenyu Wu, Jiaoyan Chen, and Norman W. Paton

In The Semantic Web – ESWC 2025, 2025

DOI arXiv Bib Code

@inproceedings{wu2025taxonomy,
  title = {Taxonomy Inference for Tabular Data Using Large Language Models},
  author = {Wu, Zhenyu and Chen, Jiaoyan and Paton, Norman W.},
  booktitle = {The Semantic Web -- ESWC 2025},
  pages = {403--422},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-94575-5_22},
}

Dataset Discovery and Exploration: A Survey

Norman W. Paton, Jiaoyan Chen, and Zhenyu Wu

ACM Computing Surveys, 2024

DOI Bib

@article{paton2024dataset,
  title = {Dataset Discovery and Exploration: A Survey},
  author = {Paton, Norman W. and Chen, Jiaoyan and Wu, Zhenyu},
  journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
  volume = {56},
  number = {4},
  pages = {1--37},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1145/3626521},
}

Data Stream Clustering: An In-depth Empirical Study

Xin Wang, Zhengru Wang, Zhenyu Wu, Shuhao Zhang, Xuanhua Shi, and Li Lu

Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, 2023

My code contributions to Sesame are recorded under my previous GitHub account, @GabrielWuNR.

DOI Bib Code

@article{wang2023stream,
  title = {Data Stream Clustering: An In-depth Empirical Study},
  author = {Wang, Xin and Wang, Zhengru and Wu, Zhenyu and Zhang, Shuhao and Shi, Xuanhua and Lu, Li},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data},
  volume = {1},
  number = {2},
  pages = {1--26},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1145/3589307},
  note = {My code contributions to <a href="https://github.com/DataSysResearch/Sesame">Sesame</a> are recorded under my previous GitHub account, <a href="https://github.com/GabrielWuNR">@GabrielWuNR</a>.},
}

Teaching & Service

Academic Service

Program Committee Member, ISWC Poster, Demo & Lightning Talk Track
Reviewer, Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK)

Teaching Assistant, University of Manchester

2026: COMP63502 - Data Engineering Technologies
2025: COMP23111 - Database Systems; DATA70141 - Understanding Databases
2023: COMP60711 - Data Engineering
2022-2023: COMP62421 - Querying Data on the Web; COMP38311 - Advanced Distributed Systems