Group Members

PhD Students (7)

  • Zhanfeng MO (Aug. 2021 - present); B.S. (Stats, USTC, China)
  • Haosen SHI (Aug. 2023 - present); B.E. (CS, Nankai Univ., China)
  • Ruiqi SHI (Aug. 2023 - present); B.E. (AI, SJTU, China)
  • Yunlun LI (Aug. 2023 - present); B.S. (Stats & CS, Rutgers Univ., US)
  • Zeyu XING (Aug. 2024 - present); B.E. (ACM Class, SJTU, China)
  • Yuhang XIE (Aug. 2024 - present); B.S. (CS, HIT SZ, China)
  • Lingshi MENG (Aug. 2025 - present; transition to PhD from MPhil (Aug. 2024 - Jul. 2025)); B.S. (Math, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR)

Postdoctoral Fellows / Research Associates (2)

  • Huiwei LIN (Jun. 2024 - present); PhD (HIT SZ, China)
  • Weisen JIANG (Nov. 2024 - present); PhD (HKUST, Hong Kong SAR)

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Graduated PhD Students (11)

  1. Quanyu LONG (Ph.D. 2025)
  2. Thesis Title: Advancing Unsupervised Domain Adaptation and Context-augmented Learning for Scalable AI Systems
    Now: Postdoctoral Fellow @ NTU, Singapore

  3. Yue DENG (Ph.D. 2025)
  4. Thesis Title: Advancing Sentiment understanding and Safety in NLP Systems
    Now: [Industry] Research Scientist @ MiroMind, Singapore

  5. Tianze LUO (Ph.D. 2024)
  6. Thesis Title: Improving Representation Learning on Graph-Structural Data for Classification, Generation, and Recommendation
    Now: [Industry] Machine Learning Engineer @ TikTok, Singapore

  7. Danni PENG (Ph.D. 2023)
  8. Thesis Title: Learning to Generalize to New Domains/Tasks with Less Data
    Now: [Institute] Scientist @ Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore

  9. Jianda CHEN (Ph.D. 2022)
  10. Thesis Title: Advanced Topics in Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Applications
    Now: Research Fellow @ Continental-NTU Corp. Lab, NTU, Singapore

  11. Shangyu CHEN (Ph.D. 2021)
  12. Thesis Title: Deep Neural Network Compression: from Sufficient to Scarce Data
    Now: [Industry] MeiTuan, China

  13. Long-Kai HUANG (Ph.D. 2020)
  14. Thesis Title: Advanced Topics in Learning to Hash for Large-scale Retrieval
    Now: [University] Incoming Assistant Professor @ Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Hong Kong

  15. Hangwei QIAN (Ph.D. 2020)
  16. Thesis Title: Sensor-Based Activity Recognition via Learning from Distributions
    Now: [Institute] Scientist @ A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Singapore

  17. Haiyan YIN (Ph.D. 2020)
  18. Thesis Title: Improving Deep Reinforcement Learning with Advanced Exploration and Transfer Learning Techniques
    Now: [Institute] Scientist @ A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Singapore

  19. Jianjun ZHAO (Ph.D. 2019)
  20. Thesis Title: New Data-Driven Approaches to Improve Probabilistic Model Structure Learning

  21. Wenya WANG (Ph.D. 2018)
  22. Thesis Title: Deep Interactive Learning for Fine-grained Opinion Mining: Single-domain, Cross-domain & Cross-lingual
    Now: [University] Assistant Professor @ Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Graduated Mphil Students (2)

  1. Xinyi HUANG (M.Eng. 2023)
  2. Thesis Title: Time Series Domain Adaptation via Contrastive Adversarial Domain Disentangled Network

  3. Yu CHEN (M.Eng. 2021)
  4. Thesis Title: Neural Architectures For Faster Deep Learning-based Collaborative Filtering

Research Fellows (6)

  1. Wenmian YANG (Dec. 2021 - Dec. 2022)
  2. Wenya WANG (Aug. 2018 - Jan. 2022)
  3. Qiang ZHOU (Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2020)
  4. Joey Tianyi ZHOU (Nov. - Dec. 2015)
  5. Yuanrui YANG (Nov. 2021 - Oct. 2022, under the Continental-NTU Corp. Lab)
  6. Zhengkun YI (Aug. 2017 - Jul. 2018, under the Rolls-Royce-NTU Corp. Lab)

Research Assistants/Associates (19)

  1. Yaolong YU (Nov. 2023 - Aug. 2025)
  2. Haosen SHI (Mar. - Dec. 2022)
  3. Ziyan WANG (Jul. - Dec. 2022)
  4. Yeqi BAI (Jan. - Jun. 2022)
  5. Yu CHEN (Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2021)
  6. Qiping YANG (Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2020)
  7. Yue DENG (Aug. 2019 - Jul. 2020)
  8. Xiang LI (Aug. 2019 - Jun. 2020)
  9. Tianze LUO (Feb. - Dec. 2019)
  10. Zichen CHEN (Feb. - Dec. 2019)
  11. Jie ZHANG (Jul. 2017 - May 2018)
  12. Qing CAI (Dec. 2017 - Jul. 2018)
  13. Jianda CHEN (Apr. - Jul. 2017)
  14. Sulin LIU (Jul. 2015 - Aug. 2017)
  15. Yaodong YU (Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2017)
  16. Yunxiang LIU (Sept. 2015 - Jul. 2017)
  17. Jingliang LI (Jul. 2016 - Jul. 2017)
  18. Long-Kai HUANG (Sept. - Dec. 2015)
  19. Joey Tianyi ZHOU (Apr. - Oct. 2015)

Interns (5)

  1. Rui LIU (UG Intern from UESTC: Sept. 2017 - Feb. 2018)
  2. Zexi HUANG (UG Intern from UESTC: Sept. 2017 - Feb. 2018)
  3. Xin DONG (UG Intern from UESTC: Aug. 2016 - May 2017)
  4. Jie LEI (UG Intern from UESTC: Oct. 2016 - Apr. 2017)
  5. Xiukun HUANG (UG Intern from UESTC: Jul. 2016 - Apr. 2017)

Visiting Students (4)

  1. Yuan YAO (PG Intern from HIT @ Shenzhen: Oct. 2019 - Jul. 2020)
  2. Disheng DONG (PG Intern from ZJU: Nov. 2018 - Nov. 2019)
  3. Fengmao LV (PG Intern from UESTC: Dec. 2017 - Dec. 2018)
  4. Siyu JIANG (PG Intern from SCUT: Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2018)

Undergraduate Students (2)

  1. Shizhuo ZHANG (MATH: Fall 2019 - Summer 2021)
  2. Meixi WU (MAEC: Fall 2018 - Summer 2020)