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.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Fan Zhang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Chong Chen, Xiao Luo
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
(CCF Rank A)
Experience

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