I’m currently a Ph.D. student at Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Pheng-Ann Heng. Previously, I gained valuable experience as a research intern at Alibaba Group and Tencent. I have also had the privilege of collaborating closely with Prof. Xiaojiang Peng, Dr. Xiao Luo, and Prof. Yefeng Zheng.
My research interests lie at the intersection of artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications in the scientific domain, with an emphasis on:
- Foundation Models: Post-training and mechanistic understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs).
- AI for Science: Development and application of scientific foundation models, particularly in healthcare, life science, and cognitive science.
Email: fzhang@link.cuhk.edu.hk Wechat: ZF_Karl
Please feel free to contact me for communication and collaboration.
News
- 2025.05: Two survey papers about foundation models for biology and healthcare are accepted by ACL 2025 (1 main paper and 1 findings).
- 2025.04: I start my internship at Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group.
- 2024.12: One paper about multimodal representation learning is accepted by AAAI 2025.
- 2024.09: One paper about AI for Biology is accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
- 2024.08: I start my internship at Tencent YouTu Lab.
- 2024.06: One paper about multimodal representation learning is accepted by TPAMI 2024.
- 2024.05: One paper about trustworthy information retrieval is accepted by TIP 2024.
- 2024.03: One paper about multimodal representation learning is accepted by NAACL 2024.
- 2024.02: One paper about multimodal representation learning is accepted by CVPR 2024.
Selected Publications
For full publications, please refer to my Google Scholar.
A Survey on Foundation Language Models for Single-cell Biology
Fan Zhang, Hao Chen, Zhihong Zhu, Ziheng Zhang, Zhenxi Lin, Ziyue Qiao, Yefeng Zheng, Xian Wu
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
(CCF Rank A)
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, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICCV, KDD, AAAI, CIKM, ACM MM, ACL ARR
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, PLOS ONE