Team

I feel extremely fortunate to work with such talented students.

Postdoc

• Wei Tang (Ph.D.@Southeast), co-supervised with Fakhri Karray, 2026-
  [中国科协青年人才托举工程 (博士生专项)]

Ph.D. Student

• Jiahao Zhang (B.S.@HUST), 2025-
  [ICLR 2026], [ICML 2026]
• Hongji Li (B.S.@LZU), 2026-
  [CIKM 2025], [WSDM 2025, Best Paper], [WWW 2026], [CVPR 2026], [ICML 2026]
• Junchi Yao (B.S.@UESTC), 2026-
  [ACL 2025], [NeurIPS 2025]

Master Student

• Daniil Ognev (B.S.@CUHK), 2025-
  
• Zeqing Zhang (B.S.@Tsinghua), 2026-
  [ICLR 2026]

Visiting Student

• Zikang Ding (CSC Ph.D. Student, UESTC)
  
• Xinyue Xu (Ph.D. Student, HKUST)
  
• Ziyue Liu (Ph.D. Student, Politecnico di Torino)
  

Research Assistant

• Peng Cui (M.S.@HKUST)
  [ICML 2026]
• Hongjun Li (B.S.@PKU)
  ……

Collaborative Student

• Mahardika Krisna Ihsani (Ph.D. Student, MBZUAI)
  
• Luqing Wang (Ph.D. Student, Southeast University)
  
• Manjiang Yu (Ph.D. Student, University of Queensland)
  [WWW 2026], [ICML 2026]
• Zhaoyi Li (Ph.D. Student, University of Science and Technology of China)
  
• Wenrui Zhou (Ph.D. Student, HKUST)
  [ACL 2026]
• Zhuoran Zhang (Ph.D. Student, Peking University)
  [ICML 2025], [ICML 2026]
• Keyuan Cheng (Ph.D. Student, Peking University)
  [COLM 2024], [ACL 2025 a], [ACL 2025 b]
  ……

Alumni

Visiting Student

• Tingxu Han (Nanjing University, Ph.D. Student), 12/2025-06/2026
  Now a research intern at the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM).
• Junchi Yao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Undergraduate Student), 11/2025-05/2026
  Now an incoming Ph.D. student at MBZUAI.
• Meng Ding (University at Buffalo, Ph.D. Student), 08/2025-02/2026
  Now a tenure-track assistant professor at UMass Boston.

Research Assistant

• Guangyu Li (University of Science and Technology of China, Undergraduate Student), 11/2025-05/2026
  Research: [ICML 2026]
  Now an incoming Ph.D. student at HKUST.
• Jizhi Zhang (Nanjing University, Undergraduate Student), 06/2025-04/2026
  Now an incoming Ph.D. student at KAUST.
• Zhipeng Yang (Southeast University, Undergraduate Student), 06/2025-04/2026
  Now an incoming Ph.D. student at Rutgers University.
• Liuxuan Jiao (University of Cambridge, Undergraduate Student), 10/2025-01/2026
  
• Wenjie Sun (Southern University of Science and Technology, Master Student), 06/2025-03/2026
  Research: [ICLR 2026]
  Now an incoming Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia.
• Difan Jiao (University of Toronto, Master Student), 04/2025-09/2025
  Now a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto.
• Lin Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Master Student), 07/2024-07/2025
  Research: [NAACL 2025], [NeurIPS 2025]
• Chenyang Ren (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Master Student), 02/2024-04/2025
  Research: [ICML 2025], [ICLR 2026, a], [ICLR 2026, b]
  Now a Ph.D. student at HKUST.
• Yuan Hua (Shandong University, Undergraduate Student), 12/2023-05/2024
  Research: [ECML 2025]
  Now a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University.
• Wenshuo Chen (Shandong University, Undergraduate Student), 12/2023-05/2024
  Research: [NeurIPS 2024], [ACM MM 2024]
  Now a Ph.D. student at HKUST(GZ).
• Shu Yang (University of Macau, Master Student), 08/2023-05/2024
  Research: [COLM 2024]
  Now a Ph.D. student at KAUST.
• Xinhai Wang (Xi’an Jiaotong University, Undergraduate Student), 08/2023-11/2023
  Research: [TKDE]
  Now a Master’s student at KAUST.
• Huanyi Xie (Harbin Institute of Technology, Undergraduate Student), 07/2023-08/2025
  Research: [ICLR 2026, a], [ICLR 2026, b], [ICLR 2026, c]
  Now a Ph.D. student at KAUST.
• Jia Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Master Student), 05/2023-05/2024
  Research: [AAAI 2025, Oral]
  Now an algorithm engineer at JD.com.
• Songning Lai (Shandong University, Undergraduate Student), 04/2023-05/2024
  Research: [ICLR 2024], [NeurIPS 2024], [ECML 2025]
  Now a researcher at JoinQuant.
• Tianhao Huang (Nankai University, Undergraduate Student), 04/2023-10/2024
  Research: [EMNLP 2024, Oral], [TMLR], [ICCV 2025]
  Now a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia.

……