CV
Contact Information
| Name | Tianda Sun |
| Professional Title | PhD Candidate in Computer Science |
| tianda.sun@york.ac.uk |
Professional Summary
Final-year PhD researcher specializing in NLU, LLM reasoning, and benchmark development.
Experience
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2022 - 2025 York, United Kingdom
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of York
- DEEP: Deep Learning and Evolution of AI Paradigms
- EVAC: Evaluating and Validating AI Claims
Education
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2022 - present York, United Kingdom
PhD
University of York
Computer Science
- Thesis: Knowledge Graph-Guided Reasoning in Large Language Models: Towards Interpretable Question Answering
- Supervisor: Dr. Dimitar Kazakov
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2021 - 2022 York, United Kingdom
MRes
University of York
Computer Science
- Thesis: Relation Extraction in Financial Reports using Distant Supervision with BERT and PCNN
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2017 - 2018 Liverpool, United Kingdom
MSc
University of Liverpool
Advanced Computer Science
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2011 - 2015 Tianjin, China
BSc
Tianjin Polytechnic University
Software Engineering
Publications
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2026 Peak-Then-Collapse and the Four Interface Channels of Knowledge-Graph Tool Use
Proceedings of EMNLP 2026 (Main Conference), Budapest, Hungary
Tianda Sun, Dimitar Kazakov
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2026 Kinship Data Benchmark for Multi-hop Reasoning (KinshipQA)
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary
Tianda Sun, Dimitar Kazakov
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2026 Tool-Call Dependency Structure is Linearly Decodable in LLM Agent Residual Streams
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25310
Tianda Sun, Dimitar Kazakov
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2025 KGEIR: Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Iterative Reasoning for Multi-Hop Question Answering
RANLP 2025 Workshop on Robust and Low-Resource Large Language Models (R2LM), Varna, Bulgaria
Tianda Sun, Dimitar Kazakov
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2025 TOGGLE Delineates Fate and Function within Individual Cell Types via Single Cell Transcriptomics
bioRxiv preprint
Jiawei Chen, Zhihao Chen, Tianda Sun, Kun Liu, Enming Jiang, Yongjie Nong, Tao Yuan, Chun-Chun Dai, Yao Yan, et al.
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2024 A Hybrid Question Answering Model with Ontological Integration for Environmental Information
DAO-XAI 2024 Workshop at ECAI, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Tianda Sun, Jamie Carr, Dimitar Kazakov
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2022 NLP Analysis of COVID-19 Radiology Reports in Indonesian using IndoBERT
IEEE International Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology Conference (IBIOMED)
Nunung Nurul Qomariyah, Tianda Sun, Dimitar Kazakov
Skills
Programming (Expert): Python, Java, SQL, Bash, C++
ML/DL Frameworks (Advanced): PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, scikit-learn, LangChain
NLP & Knowledge Graphs (Advanced): SPARQL, RDF/OWL, Neo4j, NLTK, spaCy
Infrastructure (Advanced): Linux, Git, Docker, HPC clusters