About Me
Lei Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northern Illinois University. He earned his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech, where he was advised by Prof. Chang-Tien Lu.
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Graph Learning
- Bi-Level Optimization
Education
PhD Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Hiring PhD student to work on Graph Neural Network in Fall 2025. Fill this form to apply.
- 10/24 Tutorial Session at SIAM MDS 24’
- 10/24 Tutorial Session at CIKM 24’
- 6/24: Check our CVPR 24’ tutorial on Unifying Spectral and Spatial Graph Neural Network. See the tutorial website CVPR 24’ Tutorial.
- 08/24: Joined the Computer Science Department of Northern Illinois University
♾️ My Research
I am currently exploring the reasoning and expressive capabilities of Graph Neural Networks. I am also excited about using neural networks to tackle challenging scientific problems that have yet to be addressed. Feel free to reach out if you see potential alignment and are interested in collaborating.
📌Featured Publications
📋Recent Publications
(2024).
Unifying Spectral and Spatial Graph Neural Networks.
In CIKM ‘24.
(2023).
Infinitely Deep Graph Transformation Networks.
In ICDM2023.
(2023).
Fast and adaptive dynamics-on-graphs to dynamics-of-graphs translation.
Front. Big Data.
📢Recent Talks
🤖Trivia