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Zhenyu lei


⚽️ About me

👌 Hi, I'm a PhD student at the University of Virginia.

Interests: LLM, Graph, AI for Science, and Spatial-Temporal.

PhD: Major -- ECE (AI); Lab -- VAST; Advisor -- Jundong Li.

Undergrad: Major -- Physics; Lab -- LUD; Advisor -- Minnan Luo.

E-Mail: vjd5zr at virginia dot edu (previous: Fischer@stu.xjtu.edu.cn)

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😊 Currently looking for internship!

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📸 Highlights

Editing Multimodal Molecule Language Models
Zhenyu Lei, Patrick Soga, Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li,
Submitted

Harnessing Large Language Models for Disaster Management: A Survey
Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Weiyu Li, Jing Ma, Rong Ding, Qi Wang, Jundong Li,
Preprint

BrainMAP: Learning Multiple Activation Pathways in Brain Networks
Song Wang*, Zhenyu Lei*, Zhen Tan, Jiaqi Ding, Xinyu Zhao, Yushun Dong, Guorong Wu, Tianlong Chen, Chen Chen, Aiying Zhang, Jundong Li,
AAAI 2025 (Oral)

ST-FiT: Inductive Spatial-Temporal Forecasting with Limited Training Data
Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li, Chen Chen
AAAI 2025 (Oral)

Deep Interactions for Multimodal Molecular Property Prediction
Patrick Soga, Zhenyu Lei, Camille Bilodeau, and Jundong Li
PAKDD 2025

PyGDebias: A Python Library for Debiasing in Graph Learning
Yushun Dong, Zhenyu Lei, Zaiyi Zheng, Song Wang, Jing Ma, Alex Jing Huang, Jundong Li,
WWW 2024

BIC: Twitter Bot Detection with Text-Graph Interaction and Semantic Consistency
Zhenyu Lei*, Herun Wan*, Wenqian Zhang, Shangbin Feng, Jundong Li, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo,
ACL 2023

📖 Research

Editing Multimodal Molecule Language Models
Zhenyu Lei, Patrick Soga, Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li,
Submitted

Harnessing Large Language Models for Disaster Management: A Survey
Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Weiyu Li, Jing Ma, Rong Ding, Qi Wang, Jundong Li,
Preprint

A benchmark for fairness-aware graph learning
Yushun Dong, Song Wang, Zhenyu Lei, Zaiyi Zheng, Jing Ma, Chen Chen, Jundong Li
Preprint

Deep Interactions for Multimodal Molecular Property Prediction
Patrick Soga, Zhenyu Lei, Camille Bilodeau, and Jundong Li
PAKDD 2025

ST-FiT: Inductive Spatial-Temporal Forecasting with Limited Training Data
Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li, Chen Chen
AAAI 2025 (Oral)

BrainMAP: Learning Multiple Activation Pathways in Brain Networks
Song Wang*, Zhenyu Lei*, Zhen Tan, Jiaqi Ding, Xinyu Zhao, Yushun Dong, Guorong Wu, Tianlong Chen, Chen Chen, Aiying Zhang, Jundong Li,
AAAI 2025 (Oral)

Idea: A flexible framework of certified unlearning for graph neural networks
Yushun Dong, Binchi Zhang, Zhenyu Lei, Na Zou, Jundong Li
KDD 2024

LMbot: distilling graph knowledge into language model for graph-less deployment in twitter bot detection
Zijian Cai, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zhenyu Lei, Zifeng Zhu, Hongrui Wang, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo
WSDM 2024

Hofa: Twitter bot detection with homophily-oriented augmentation and frequency adaptive attention
Sen Ye, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zhenyu Lei, Ruijie He, Hongrui Wang, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo
Preprint 2023

BIC: Twitter bot detection with text-graph interaction and semantic consistency
Zhenyu Lei, Herun Wan, Wenqian Zhang, Shangbin Feng, Zilong Chen, Jundong Li, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo
ACL 2023

Twibot-22: Towards graph-based twitter bot detection
Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Herun Wan, Ningnan Wang, Zilong Chen, Binchi Zhang, Qinghua Zheng, Wenqian Zhang, Zhenyu Lei, Shujie Yang, Xinshun Feng, Qingyue Zhang, Hongrui Wang, Yuhan Liu, Yuyang Bai, Heng Wang, Zijian Cai, Yanbo Wang, Lijing Zheng, Zihan Ma, Jundong Li, Minnan Luo
NIPS 2022

Kalm: Knowledge-aware integration of local, document, and global contexts for long document understanding
Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Wenqian Zhang, Zhenyu Lei, Yulia Tsvetkov
Preprint 2022

KCD: Knowledge walks and textual cues enhanced political perspective detection in news media
Wenqian Zhang, Shangbin Feng, Zilong Chen, Zhenyu Lei, Jundong Li, Minnan Luo
NAACL 2022

🎉 Miscellaneous

🏸 Badminton player
      -- William & Mary Open Group C Men's Doubles Champion

🎤 Interest
      -- 🎤Singing, 🏐Volleyball, 🏋️Workout, 📖Reading
      -- Keep Exporing: Traveling and more sports!


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