Chuangtao Ma

Chuangtao Ma

Postdoctoral Researcher

Aalborg Univesity

Biography

Chuangtao Ma is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science of Aalborg University (AAU). He works in the Data Engineering, Science and Systems (DESS) group with Prof. Arijit Khan. He previously received his Ph.D. in informatics from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

His research interests include data integration, ontology learning, knowledge representation, and knowledge graph. Currently, he is keen on the topic of knowledge empowered machine learning, knowledge augmented model, and their applications in data management.

Interests
  • Data & Knowledge Management
  • Ontology & Knowledge Graphs
  • Knowledge Augmented Model
  • Graph Representation Learning
Education

  • Ph.D. in Information Systems

    Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

  • M.Sc in Management Information Systems

    Xi'an Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China

News & Updates

Aug 2025 One paper has been accepted to EMNLP 2025
Jun 2025 Invited talk at KG-STAR@ESWC 2025
Feb 2025 Tutorial has been accepted to EDBT 2025
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Recent Publications

Chuangtao Ma, Zeyu Zhang, Arijit Khan, Sebastian Schelter, Paul Groth (2026). Cost-Efficient RAG for Entity Matching with LLMs: A Blocking-based Exploration. In arXiv.

arXiv Code

Sriom Chakrabarti, Chuangtao Ma, Arijit Khan, Sebastian Link (2026). SQL-to-Text Generation with Weighted-AST Few-Shot Prompting. In ADC 2025.

DOI Code

Chuangtao Ma, Yongrui Chen, Tianxing Wu, Arijit Khan, Haofen Wang (2025). Large Language Models Meet Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering: Synthesis and Opportunities. In EMNLP 2025.

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Research Topics

Data Integration Graph RAG Information Systems Knowledge Graph Ontology Learning Schema Matching

Selected Presentations

The Role Evolution of KGs in Synthesizing with LLMs: From Background Knowledge to Joint Reasoning
In this talk, an overview of the role evolution of KGs in synthesizing LLMs with KGs is introduced. The related applications are summarized, and the open challenges and opportunities are discussed and highlighted.
Jun 2, 2025 2:45 PM — 3:30 PM Grand hotel Bernardin, Portorož, Slovenia
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Unifying LLMs and KGs for Question Answering: Recent Advances and Opportunities
In this tutorial, an overview of the state-of-the-art advances in unifying LLMs with KGs for QA is introduced, and the open challenges are summarized and the opportunities for data management are highlighted.
Mar 27, 2025 10:30 AM — 12:30 PM Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Chuangtao Ma, Yongrui Chen, Tianxing Wu, Arijit Khan, Haofen Wang
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Heterogeneous Data Integration and Sharing for Intelligent Decision-Making
This presentation introduces the key challenges of intelligent decision-making across multiple data sources in an organization and explores how knowledge-enhanced data integration methods can empower intelligent decision-making through advanced data sharing and analysis.
Nov 30, 2023 9:20 AM — 9:45 AM Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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Service & Reviewer

VLDB'26, CoopIS'25, LLM+Graph@VLDB'25, LLM+KG@VLDB'24, SeMatS@ISWC'25
(Shadow) PC Member
ICLR'25, VLDB'25&24, KDD'25, AISTATS'26, ECIR'26, DSAA'25, ADC'25, Demos@ICDE'25, LOG'25&24
Conference (External) Reviewer
TKDE, TNNLS, TKDD, KBS, NEUCOM, PMJ, JAIT
Journal Reviewer
GOBLIN COST Action
MC Member

Contact

  • chuma[at]cs[dot]aau[dot]dk
  • Selma Lagerløfs Vej 300, Aalborg, 9220
  • Room 3.2.16, Cluster 3