Team

I feel extremely fortunate to work with such talented students.

Postdoc

Ph.D. Student

• Jiahao Zhang (B.S.@HUST), 2025-
  
• Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, co-supervised with Kentaro Inui, 2025-
  

Visiting Student

• Zikang Ding (CSC Ph.D. Student, UESTC)
  
• Meng Ding (Ph.D. Student, University at Buffalo)
  
• Tingxu Han (Ph.D. Student, Nanjing University)
  
• Junchi Yao (B.S.@UESTC)
  

Master Student

• Xinyue Bi (B.S.@U Ottawa), 2025-
  
• Daniil Ognev (B.S.@CUHK), 2025-
  
• Changjiang Han, co-supervised with Steve Liu, 2025-
  
• Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed Hendy, co-supervised with Nils Lukas, 2025-
  
• Xinmin Hou, co-supervised with Guangyu (Gus) Xia, 2025-
  
• Jenna Nashat Khanfar, co-supervised with Aziz Khan, 2025-
  
• Aruzhan Zhamalbek, co-supervised with Aziz Khan, 2025-
  

Research Assistant

• Liuxuan Jiao (B.S.@Cambridge)
  
• Zeqing Zhang (B.S.@Tsinghua)
  
• Guangyu Li (B.S.@USTC)
  
• Wenhao Hu (M.S.@UESTC)
  
• Peng Cui (M.S.@HKUST)
  
• Wenshuo Dong (M.S.@Copenhagen)
  
• Wenjie Sun (M.S.@SUSTech)
  
• Xinyan Jiang (M.S.@CAS)
  ……

Collaborative Student

• Manjiang Yu (Ph.D. Student, University of Queensland)
  
• Zhaoyi Li (Ph.D. Student, University of Science and Technology of China)
  
• Tiancheng Yang (Ph.D. Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  
• Wenrui Zhou (Ph.D. Student, HKUST)
  
• Xinyue Xu (Ph.D. Student, HKUST)
  
• Xilin Gong (Ph.D. Student, University of Georgia)
  
• Zhuoran Zhang (Ph.D. Student, Peking University)
  [ICML 2025]
• Keyuan Cheng (Ph.D. Student, Peking University)
  [COLM 2024], [ACL 2025 a], [ACL 2025 b]
  ……

Alumni

• Difan Jiao (University of Toronto, M.S. -> University of Toronto, Ph.D. Student), 04/2025-09/2025
  
• Lin Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, M.S. Student), 07/2024-07/2025
  [NAACL 2025], [NeurIPS 2025]
• Chenyang Ren (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, M.S. -> HKUST, Ph.D. Student), 02/2024-04/2025
  [ICML 2025]
• Yuan Hua (Shandong University, B.S. -> Tsinghua University, Ph.D. Student), 12/2023-05/2024
  [ECML 2025]
• Wenshuo Chen (Shandong University, B.S. -> HKUST(GZ), Ph.D. Student), 12/2023-05/2024
  [NeurIPS 2024], [ACM MM 2024]
• Shu Yang (University of Macau, M.S. -> KAUST, Ph.D. Student), 08/2023-05/2024
  [COLM 2024]
• Xinhai Wang (Xi’an Jiaotong University, B.S. -> KAUST, M.S. Student), 08/2023-11/2023
  [TKDE]
• Jia Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, M.S. -> JD.com, Algorithm Engineer), 05/2023-05/2024
  [AAAI 2025, Oral]
• Songning Lai (Shandong University, B.S. -> HKUST(GZ), Ph.D. Student), 04/2023-05/2024
  [ICLR 2024], [NeurIPS 2024], [ECML 2025]
• Tianhao Huang (Nankai University, B.S. -> University of Virginia, Ph.D Student), 04/2023-10/2024
  [EMNLP 2024, Oral], [TMLR], [ICCV 2025]
  ……