Wenjun HOU (Ethan)

houwenjun060 (at) gmail.com
wenjun.hou (at) connect.polyu.hk

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I am a final-year joint Ph.D. student, advised by Prof. Maggie, Wenjie Li@NLP Group, PolyU and Prof. Jiang Liu@iMED Shenzhen, SUSTech. I received my Master’s degree from China Agricultural University (CAU) in 2020, and Bachelor’s degree from Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) in 2017. For more details, please see my [CV].

📮📮📮 I am always open to collaborating on research in Medical AI, Multimodal Learning, and related fields. Feel free to reach out via email.

❤️❤️❤️ I am currently on the job market and actively looking for industry opportunities.

🫶🫶🫶 Currently, I am engaged as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon.

Research

I am working on Natural Language Processing and Multimodal Learning. Especially, I focus on the following directions:

News

Sep 2025 🫡🫡🫡 Defended my PhD thesis. Huge thanks to my two supervisors and committee members!
Aug 2025 One paper has been accepted by EMNLP 2025.
May 2025 Three papers have been accepted by ACL 2025.

Selected Publications

  1. ACL
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    RADAR: Enhancing Radiology Report Generation with Supplementary Knowledge Injection
    Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Kaishuai Xu, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Jul 2025
  2. ICON: Improving Inter-Report Consistency in Radiology Report Generation via Lesion-aware Mixup Augmentation
    Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Kaishuai Xu, and 3 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, Nov 2024
  3. RECAP: Towards Precise Radiology Report Generation via Dynamic Disease Progression Reasoning
    Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Kaishuai Xu, and 2 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Dec 2023
  4. ACL
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    ORGAN: Observation-Guided Radiology Report Generation via Tree Reasoning
    Wenjun Hou, Kaishuai Xu, Yi Cheng, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Jul 2023
  5. End-to-End Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction with Graph Convolutional Network
    Ying Chen, Wenjun Hou, Shoushan Li, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dec 2020