Yifan Lu

Yifan Lu

Hangzhou Dianzi University

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    • I am a senior undergraduate student majoring in Artificial Intelligence Security, from Zhuoyue Honors College at Hangzhou Dianzi University. During my undergraduate studies, I am fortunate to be working on something interesting in the long term with Pengfei Jiao. Now, I am working on research related to Large Language Models with some talented collaborators.

    🎈 I’m actively applying for a Ph.D. position in Fall 2025! If you are interested in my research, please feel free to contact. CV

    🔎 Research

    I am enthusiastic about exploring the mysteries of Artificial Intelligence, to make the world better. Currently, my research interests revolve around three primary areas:

    a) Trustworthy Machine Learning：

    • Graph Neural Network Explainers
    • Trustworthy LLMs
    • Interpretable Antibody Design and Optimization

    b) Graph Neural Networks:

    • Heterogeneous Graph
    • Antibody Affinity Prediction
    • Graph Transformer

    c) Large Language Models

    🔥 News

    • 2024.10: I win a gold medal in the China International College Students' Innovation Competition 2024.
    • 2024.09: I have completed my internship at MindRank. Thanks to everyone!
    • 2024.09: I serve as a reviewer for ICLR 2025.
    • 2024.08: We attended The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and presented our work in Jeju Island.
    • 2024.07: I started an internship as a Machine Learning Engineer at MindRank, working on AI-driven drug discovery research.
    • 2024.06: One paper about Anomaly Detection was accepted by AI for Time Series Analysis Workshop@IJCAI 2024. See you in Jeju Island!
    • 2023.08: A paper was accepted to CICAI 2023.
    • 2023.07: New Journal Paper Accepted by Pattern Recognition.

    📄 Publications

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    Neighborhood overlap-aware heterogeneous hypergraph neural network for link prediction

    Yifan Lu, Mengzhou Gao, Huan Liu, Zehao Liu, Wei Yu, Xiaoming Li, Pengfei Jiao

    Pattern Recognition, 2023

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    Physical Process Guided Graph Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection in CPSs

    Mengzhou Gao, Zehao Liu, Yifan Lu, Pengfei Jiao

    IJCAI’24 Workshop: Artificial Intelligence for Time Series Analysis, 2024

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    Heterogeneous Link Prediction via Mutual Information Maximization Between Node Pairs

    Yifan Lu, Zehao Liu, Mengzhou Gao, Pengfei Jiao

    CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI), 2023

    📝 Manuscripts

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    Robust Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network Explainer with Graph Information Bottleneck

    Yifan Lu, Pengfei Jiao, Xuan Guo, Ziyun Zou, Yiwei Wang, Mengzhou Gao, Huaming Wu

    under review

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    Heterogeneous Graph Transformer with Contextual Neighbor Sampling

    Pengfei Jiao†, Yifan Lu†(co-first), Huan Liu, Xuan Guo, Xiao Wang

    under review

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    LLM-based Species-Specific Antibody Design and Optimization for Protein Structures

    Yifan Lu, Ziyun Zou, Pengfei Jiao, Zehao Liu, Mengzhou Gao

    under review

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    RETAIN: Reliable Topology Augmentation for both Heterophily and Homophily Graphs

    Ziyun Zou, Lian Shen, Yanhao Li, Yifan Lu, Juan Liu, Xiangrong Liu

    under review

    🎖 Honors and Awards

    • 2024.10 Gold Medal China International College Students’ Innovation Competition 2024 (nation-wide)
    • 2024.10 First Class Scholarship (Top 15% school-wide)
    • 2022.06 Three Class Award Yangtze River Delta Mathematical Modeling Competition (nation-wide)
    • 2021.12 Champion Yunzhenxin Cup Mathematical Modeling Competition (school-wide)

    💻 Internships

    • 2024.07 - 2024.09 MindRank, Hangzhou, China.

    🌠 Practical Experience

    • 2023.06 - 2024.03 Student Union President, Zhuoyue Honors College
    • 2022.06 - 2023.06 Referee Department Head, Hangzhou Dianzi University Football Club
    • 2022.06 - 2023.06 Head of Learning Department, Zhuoyue Honors College