Denali National Park · Alaska · December 2024

Hi! 👋 My name is Guohui Guan. You can just call me Hui (辉)!

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, advised by Prof. Chang Ge. My research focuses on applying machine learning to solve database problems.

If you’d like to collaborate or just chat, feel free to reach out!

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Find me here: Google Scholar / LinkedIn / gguan at umn.edu

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News

Publications

• 2025 — SemForest: Semantic-Aware Ontology Generation with Foundation Models [Github] Guohui Guan, Sachin Konan, Larry Rudolph, Chang Ge VLDB TaDA Workshop

• 2022 — Deep audio-visual beamforming for speaker localization Xinyuan Qian, Qiquan Zhang, Guohui Guan, Wei Xue SPL

• 2022 — Audio-visual cross-attention network for robotic speaker tracking Xinyuan Qian, Zhengdong Wang, Jiadong Wang, Guohui Guan, Haizhou Li TASLP

Education

• Aug 2024 – Present — Ph.D. in Computer Science University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Advisor: Prof. Chang Ge Honors & Awards: GAGE Fellowship
• Aug 2022 – Dec 2023 — M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Worked with Prof. Gerald Friedland and Eleanor Cawthon Honors & Awards: UC Berkeley EECS Fung Excellence Scholarship
• Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 — Exchange Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore Worked at HLT Lab with Prof. Haizhou Li and Prof. Xinyuan Qian
• Sep 2017 – Jun 2021 — B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Automation Chongqing University Honors & Awards: National Academic Scholarship; Gratitude for Chinese Modern Scientists Scholarship

University of Minnesota in the Snow

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Updated Oct 2025

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