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 Prof. Pengfei Jiao and Prof. Belal Alsinglawi. 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.
🔎 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
- 2025.04: I serve as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2025.
- 2025.03: I serve as a reviewer for IJCNN 2025.
- 2025.02: I have received the IEEE ICASSP 2025 Conference Travel Grant. See you in Hyderabad!
- 2025.01: I serve as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- 2024.12: A paper was accepted to ICASSP 2025.
- 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
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
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
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
RETAIN: Reliable Topology Augmentation for both Heterophily and Homophily Graphs
Ziyun Zou, Lian Shen, Yanhao Li, Yifan Lu, Juan Liu, Xiangrong Liu
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025)
📝 Manuscripts
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025.02 Conference Grant IEEE ICASSP 2025 Conference Travel Grant
- 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)
💻 Service
- Conference Reviewer: ICLR’2025, IJCNN’2025, NeurIPS’2025
- Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
🌠 Experience
- 2024.07 - 2024.09 Machine Learning Intern, MindRank, Hangzhou, China.
- 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