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Hi I'm Zhenyu (Fischer) Lei
- Efficiency: Especially how to distill the whole ability of larger black-box (or white-box) models into smaller ones.
- Reliability: How to make accessible models more reliable.
- AI for Urban+Environment: How does AI helps in air quality and disaster mangement.
- AI for Neuroscience: How to use AI to understand the brain.
🔥What's New
- [2025.10] 1 papers get accepted to WSDM 2026! See you in Idaho! (Maybe)
- [2025.08] 2 papers get accepted to EMNLP! See you in Suzhou! (Maybe)
- [2025.01] Harnessing Large Language Models for Disaster Management: A Survey is accepted to ACL Findings!
- [2024.11] 2 papers were accepted to AAAI 2025 Main (Oral)!👏 ST-FiT, BrainMAP. See you in Philadephia!
📖 Selected Publications (* indicates equal contribution)
2026
Zhenyu Lei, Patrick Soga, Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li
WSDM 2026 (Oral)
MolEdit is a framework for precisely editing facts inside multimodal molecule language models so they can fix outdated or wrong chemistry/biomed knowledge without retraining. It uses a Multi-Expert Knowledge Adapter (MEKA) to edit specific facets (e.g., functional groups, properties) and an Expertise-Aware Editing Switcher (EAES) to trigger edits only on closely matching inputs, plus MEBench to evaluate reliability, locality, and generality—showing sizable gains over prior editors.
2025
Zhenyu Lei, Zhen Tan, Song Wang, Yaochen Zhu, Zihan Chen, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li
EMNLP 2025
This work proposes QR-Distill, a distillation framework that (i) filters for correct, LLM-judged high-quality chains-of-thought, (ii) conditionally routes the remaining paths to students based on their current state, and (iii) enables mutual student collaboration via feature-level peer teaching. Across multiple reasoning datasets, it outperforms single- and multi-path baselines.
Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Weiyu Li, Rong Ding, Qi R. Wang, Jundong Li
ACL 2025 Findings
This survey systematically maps how LLMs support disaster management across mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. It introduces a unified taxonomy linking scenarios and tasks (classification, estimation, extraction, generation) to different model families, consolidates public datasets, and highlights open challenges—dataset construction, efficient deployment, robust generation, and unified evaluation—to guide future research and practice.
Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li, Chen Chen
AAAI 2025 (Oral)
In this paper, we study an under-explored research problem of inductive forecasting with limited training data, which requires models to generalize the learned spatial-temporal dependencies from the nodes with available training temporal data to those nodes without. To handle this problem, we propose ST-FiT that can achieve superior performance without additional fine-tuning.
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)
While significant progress has been made in understanding brain activity through functional connectivity (FC) graphs, challenges remain in effectively capturing and interpreting the complex, long-range dependencies and multiple pathways that are inherent in these graphs. In this work, we introduce BrainMAP, a novel framework that can extract multiple long-range activation pathways with adaptive sequentialization and pathway aggregation.
2023
Zhenyu Lei*, Herun Wan*, Wenqian Zhang, Shangbin Feng, Jundong Li, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo,
ACL 2023
We proposed a bot-detection model named BIC. BIC interacts and exchanges information across text modality and graph modality by a text-graph interaction module. BIC contains a semantic consistency module that derives the inconsistency from tweets by the attention weight to identify advanced bots.
⚙️ Industrial Experience
🧑🎓 Education
Advisor: Prof. Minnan Luo
👷 Service
- Reviewer: CIKM (2025), COLM (2024, 2025), KDD (2024, 2025), ARR (Dec 2023–), NeurIPS (2023)
- Volunteer: ACL 2023 (virtual)
🏊 Miscellaneous
- I have the fortune to work with brilliant mentors, collaborators, and advisors during my research journey and I am truly grateful for their guidance and help. If you feel like I can be of some help to your research career, welcome to reach out! ☕
- I enjoy playing badminton 🏸 and won the William & Mary Open Group C Men's Doubles Champion 🏆.
- I also love singing 🎤 and playing volleyball 🏐.
- My favorite singers are Adele and Coldplay, "lights will guide you home, I will try to fix you".
- I love all my friends.
- I completed my undergraduate studies at Xi'an Jiaotong University, where I was very fortunate and grateful to join the LUD Lab.
- I have had the privilege of learning from many inspiring mentors, including Shangbin Feng, Yushun Dong, Song Wang, Zhen Tan.