I am currently a first-year CS PhD student at Rutgers University supervised by Professor Zheng(Eddy)Zhang working on quantum machine learning. I received my bachelor degree in the CS Department (by courtesy) at Lanzhou University(since 2019) majoring in CS and I was affiliated with the Centers for Computer Software and Theory with Prof. Yonggang Lu . Before my first year in Rutgers, I was an intern in Westlake University supervised by Prof. Fajie Yuan researching on AI + Biology.
Research Interest
Due to the fact that I'm interest-oriented, my research interests are pretty diverse and they span across Machine Learning and Ai4Science. My research aims at:- Bridging the gap between Quantum Hamiltonian and Quantum circuits compilation, especially when it involves Fermionic system
- Improving the Quantum circuit optimization using machine learning methods
- Machine learning in graphs, both practically and theoretically, in a principled manner to enable its applications in critical domains like community detection in graphs;
📈Blogs
- 2025.02.22: Actively collaborating with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on Compiling Fermions.
- 2025.01.25: One paper on code generation preparing for Neural ips 2025.
🔥 News
- 2025.03.23: 🎉🎉 One paper on Hybrid-CV-DV is accepted as first-co-author at ISCA 2025
- 2024.12.06: 🎉🎉 Following my phd supervisor eddy to visit Berkeley Lawrence National lab
- 2024.10.26: 🎉🎉 Congrats to Hongji!One paper accepted at WSDM(THU-A) 2025 with four WAs and 1 AC!
- 2024.09.01: 🎉🎉 I’m beginning my journey in Rutgers University
- 2024.07.10: 🎉🎉 Our survey paper on community detection has been published in Neurocomputing 2024(IF:6.0, SCI Q2, JCR Q1)
- 2024.05.10: 🎉🎉 Congrats to Sony, a paper regarding multi-modal alignment in sentiment analysis is accepted in IJCNN2024(CCF C, oral)
- 2023.08.01: 🎉🎉 I gave an oral presentation at ICIC 2023(CCF C, oral) for my paper regarding community detection.
📝 Publications
* denotes equal contribution, ** denotes corresponding author
- A comprehensive review of community detection in graphs NeuroComputing
Jiakang Li† , Songning Lai†, Zhihao Shuai, Yuan Tan…, **Yonggang Lu
- Community Detection Using Revised Medoid-Shift Based on KNN ICIC2023 (oral)
Jiakang Li, Xiaokang Peng, Jie Hou, Wei Ke, **Yonggang Lu
- Shared and Private Information Learning in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Deep Modal Alignment and Self-supervised Multi-Task Learning IJCNN 2024 (oral)
Sony Lai, Jiakang Li, Guinan Guo, Xifeng Hu…
- Teach Me How to Denoise: A Universal Framework for Denoising Multi-modal Recommender Systems via Guided Calibration WSDM 2025 (oral)
Hongji Li, Hanwen Du, Youhua Li, …Jiakang Li, Yongxin Ni**
🌟 Research Experience
- 2022.01-2023.04 Research Intern at Lanzhou University advised by Prof. Yonggang Lu
Machine Learning clustering algorithm as well as its application on community detection, Lanzhou
- 2023.04-2023.11 Research Intern at Westlake University advised by Dr. Fajie Yuan
Ai 4 Science with problems focusing on Protein-Protein-Interaction prediction using deep learning method, Hangzhou
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2020.12 Lanzhou University Second-Class Scholarship.
- 2021.12 Lanzhou University Second-Class Scholarship.
- 2022.12 Lanzhou University Third-Class Scholarship.
- 2020.12/2021.12/2022.12 University-wide Learning Model.
📖 Educations
- 2024.09 - (now), CS Phd in Rutgers University.
- 2021.01 - 2021.06, Exchange student in University of California, Berkeley, UCB(EECS)
- 2021.01 - 2021.02, Winter course on Vision Science(Cognitive Lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology,MIT(EECS)
- 2019.09 - 2023.06, B.S. in Lanzhou University with GPA ranking top 13%.
🚀 Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assitant , CS206: Discrete Structures, Rutgers University, 2024 Fall
- Teaching Assitant , CS415: Compilers, Rutgers University, 2025 Spring
📈Academic Service
-Reviewer for ICME 2025, IJCNN 2025
💬 Invited Talks
- xxxx.xx.xx, Hopefully there will be some in the future
💻 Internships
- 2022.06 - 2022.10, Trip.com携程, Shanghai, China.
I interned as a machine leanring algorithm intern in airline ticket department, where I helped to impove the accuracy for predicting the airline tickets prices; Also I was responsible for risk management project, I trained a machine learning model and improve its precision for capturing malicious users to 90% compared with its previous update five years ago.
Besides study
•I'm a good gamer for MOBA GAMESI have been running a Tiktok account doing contents about AOV(Arena of Valor)/王者荣耀 with 200+ followers now! As for my competence, the highest rank for the ranked match is 'Lengendary King' and the highest Peak Tournament(巅峰赛) I have once reached is 2282. At the mean time, 74-Lane Battle, 60-Lane Roaming, 60-Lane Jungle witness my ability to excel in Moba games. It's worth mentioning that I was once in compliance with professional player Wolf.Xiao Pang(狼队小胖) and national-famous broadcaster Lala (快手辣辣).
•I love singing!
I have received a lot of friends' compliment on singing :), but I haven't got the time yet to test out that in a campaign :( !
•I'm the FOUNDER of the Lanzhou University Flyer organization
. I serve as a bridge between the graduated and the undergraduate in Lanzhou University :)!
•Personality: My MBTI is ENFJ