I’m currently a M.S. student at Georgia Institute of Technology and a research intern at Tencent YouTu Lab, working with Dr. Xian Wu and Prof. Yefeng Zheng. Previously, I received my B.E. degree from Soochow University. I am also privileged to work closely with Prof. Xiaojiang Peng and Dr. Xiao Luo.

My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, foundation models, and scientific problems. Recently, I have a special focus on:

  • Machine Learning: Data-centric Machine Learning, (Multimodal) Large Language Models.
  • AI for Science: Foundation Models (LLMs/MLLMs) for Scientific Problems, ML for Biology and Healthcare.

Email: fanzhang@gatech.edu or zfkarl1998@gmail.com

Please feel free to contact me for communication and collaboration.

News

  • 2024.12: One paper is accepted by AAAI 2025 (First Author).
  • 2024.09: One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (First Author).
  • 2024.08: I start my internship at Tencent YouTu Lab.
  • 2024.06: One paper is accepted by TPAMI 2024 (First Author).
  • 2024.05: One paper is accepted by TIP 2024 (First Author).
  • 2024.03: One paper is accepted by NAACL 2024 (First Author).
  • 2024.02: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2024 (First Author).

Selected Publications

For full publications, please refer to my Google Scholar.

AAAI 2025
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DREAM: Decoupled Discriminative Learning with Bigraph-aware Alignment for Semi-supervised 2D-3D Cross-modal Retrieval

Fan Zhang, Changhu Wang, Zebang Cheng, Xiaojiang Peng, Dongjie Wang, Yijia Xiao, Chong Chen, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiao Luo

Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

(CCF Rank A)


NeurIPS 2024
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Semi-supervised Knowledge Transfer Across Multi-omic Single-cell Data

Fan Zhang, Tianyu Liu, Zihao Chen, Xiaojiang Peng, Chong Chen, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiao Luo, Hongyu Zhao

Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

(CCF Rank A)


TPAMI 2024
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HOPE: A Hierarchical Perspective for Semi-supervised 2D-3D Cross-Modal Retrieval

Fan Zhang, Hang Zhou, Xian-Sheng Hua, Chong Chen, Xiao Luo

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024

(CCF Rank A, JCR Q1, IF=23.6)


TIP 2024
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FATE: Learning Effective Binary Descriptors with Group Fairness

Fan Zhang, Chong Chen, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiao Luo

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2024

(CCF Rank A, JCR Q1, IF=10.6)


NAACL 2024
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DEMO: A Statistical Perspective for Efficient Image-Text Matching

Fan Zhang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Chong Chen, Xiao Luo

North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2024

(CCF Rank B)


CVPR 2024
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Fine-grained Prototypical Voting with Heterogeneous Mixup for Semi-supervised 2D-3D Cross-modal Retrieval

Fan Zhang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Chong Chen, Xiao Luo

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

(CCF Rank A)

Experience

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Tencent YouTu Lab, Shenzhen, China

Research Intern @ Jarvis Research Center

2024.08 - 2025.04

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer / PC Member

  • ICML 2025, ICLR 2025, NeurIPS 2024, KDD 2024-2025, CIKM 2024, MM 2024, ACL ARR 2023-2025

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, PLOS ONE