Visiting Professsor

• Vaneet Aggarwal (Professor at Purdue University), 2022/05-2023/08

Visiting Scholar

• Jingfeng Zhang (Lecturer at University of Auckland)

• Chenglin Fan (Assistant Professor at Seoul National University)

Postdoc

• Fengpeng Li
  

Ph.D Students

• Liangyu Wang (CS Ph.D), 2023 Spring-
  [CoLM 2025], [NeurIPS 2025], [ACL Findings 2026]

• Jiayi Wang (MSE Ph.D), co-advised with Prof. Osman Bakr, 2023 Summer-
  [ACS Central Science]

• Shaopeng Fu (CS Ph.D), 2023 Fall-
  [ICLR 2022 a,b], [ICLR 2024], [TIT], [NeurIPS 2025], [ICLR 2026]

• Khouloud Saadi (CS Ph.D), 2024 Fall-
  [EMNLP Findings 2022]

• Shu Yang (CS Ph.D), 2024 Fall-
  [CoLM 2024], [ACL Findings 2025 a, b], [EMNLP Findings 2025, a, b], [AAAI 2026], [TACL], [ACL 2026 a, b], [ACL Findings 2026]

• Anis Oueslati (CS Ph.D), 2025 Fall-
  

Master Student

• Difei Xu (STAT M.S/Ph.D), 2024 Fall-
  [TMLR]

• Huanyi Xie (CS M.S/Ph.D), 2025 Fall-
  [ICLR 2026 a, b, c]

• Aicha Slaitane (CS M.S/Ph.D), 2025 Fall-

Collaborative Ph.D Student

• Youming Tao (PhD student, Shandong University)
  [国家自然科学基金 (博士生项目)] [中国科协青年人才托举工程 (博士生专项)]

  Placement: Postdoc at TU Berlin

• Meng Ding (PhD student, University at Buffalo)
  

  Placement: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at UMass Boston

Visiting Student

Postdoc

• Mengdi Li (Ph.D, University of Hamburg)
  

  Placement: Research Scientist, Horizon Robotics

• Huan Wang (Wuhan University)
  

  Placement: Tenured Associated Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University

• Xiaodong Miao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautic)
  

  Placement: Tenured Associated Professor at Nanjing Tech University, Chair of Department of Vehicle Engineering

• Muhammad Asif Ali (University of New South Wales)
  

  Placement: Postdoc at KAUST

• Junxiao Wang (Dalian University of Technology)
  

  Placement: Tenured Associated Professor at Guangzhou University

• Yan Hu (University of Padua)
  

  Placement: Scientist at National Health Data Institute (Shenzhen), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Students

• Cheng-Long Wang (CS Ph.D), 2021 Fall-Spring 2026
  

  Placement: Research Scientist at Huawei 2012 Lab

• Xiaochuan Gou (CS Ph.D), co-advised with Prof. Xiangliang Zhang, 2020 Fall-2025 Fall
  

  Placement: Scientist at SINOPEC Dalian Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals

• Zihang Xiang (CS Ph.D), 2021 Spring-2025 Fall
  

  Placement: Postdoc at Department of Computer Science, UCLA

• Lijie Hu (CS Ph.D), 2021 Spring-2025 Fall
  

  Placement: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

• Liyang Zhu (CS M.S), 2022 Fall-2024 Fall
  

  Placement: PhD in Computer Science at Duke University

Visiting Student/Research Intern (Selected)

• Xiangyu Guo
  

  Current: Assistant Professor of Teaching, State University of New York at Buffalo

• Mengdi Huai
  

  Current: Assistant Professor, Iowa State University

• Tianhang Zheng
  

  Current: Professor, Zhejiang University [国家级青年人才]

• Peng Zhao
  

  Current: Assistant Professor, Nanjing University

• Caizhu Huang
  

  Current: Assistant Professor, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics

• Zixing Song
  

  Current: Lecturer, University of Bristol