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Yifei Zhang

Ph.D. Student
Emory University
yifei.zhang2 (at) emory.edu


About Me

Welcome! I’m Yifei Zhang, a secondthird-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Emory University, where I have the fortune of working with Dr. Liang Zhao. Before this, I obtained my M.S. degree in Data Science from Columbia University and my B.E. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Dalian University of Technology. Additionally, I earned a Master of Engineering Management degree from Duke University.

My research focuses on Explainable AI (XAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), with an emphasis on multimodal learning, model distillation, and evaluation methodologies. As a Ph.D. student at Emory University, I have contributed to multiple research projects and published in top-tier conferences, continuously pushing the boundaries of AI interpretability and efficiency.

I am actively seeking Research Scientist or Applied Scientist full-time roles for 2026. If you have any opportunities, feel free to reach out!

Research Interests

News

Selected publications and preprints

  1. Arxiv
    Yifei Zhang*, Tianxu Jiang*, Bo Pan, Jingyu Wang, Guangji Bai, Liang Zhao (* denotes equal contribution)
    Arxiv

  2. Arxiv
    Guangji Bai, Zheng Chai, Chen Ling, Shiyu Wang, Jiaying Lu, Nan Zhang, Tingwei Shi, Ziyang Yu, Mengdan Zhu, Yifei Zhang, Carl Yang, Yue Cheng, Liang Zhao
    Arxiv

  3. Arxiv
    Yifei Zhang, Siyi Gu, James Song, Bo Pan, Guangji Bai, Liang Zhao
    Arxiv

  4. KDD'24
    Qilong Zhao, Yifei Zhang, Mengdan Zhu, Siyi Gu, Yuyang Gao, Xiaofeng Yang, Liang Zhao
    The 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2024.

  5. CIKM' 24
    Bo Pan, Zheng Zhang, Yifei Zhang, Yuntong Hu, Liang Zhao
    The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024.

  6. ACL' 24
    Yifei Zhang, Bo Pan, Chen Ling, Yuntong Hu, Liang Zhao
    The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-Findings), 2024.

  7. IJCAI' 24
    Yifei Zhang, Bo Pan, Siyi Gu, Guangji Bai, Meikang Qiu, Xiaofeng Yang, Liang Zhao
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024.

  8. SDM' 24
    Dazhou Yu, Binbin Chen, Yun Li, Suman Dhaka, Yifei Zhang, Zhenke Liu, Minxing Zhang, Jie Zhang, Liang Zhao
    SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2024.

  9. ICCV'23
    Yifei Zhang, Siyi Gu, Yuyang Gao, Bo Pan, Xiaofeng Yang, Liang Zhao
    The IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.

  10. KDD'23
    Siyi Gu*, Yifei Zhang*, Yuyang Gao, Xiaofeng Yang, Liang Zhao (* denotes equal contribution)
    The 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2023.

Education Experience

Emory University, 2022.08-
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Columbia University, 2020.09-2021.12
M.S. in Data Science
Duke University, 2019.08-2020.05
Master of Engineering Management
Dalian University of Technology, 2015.09-2019.06
B.E. in Engineering Mechanics (Excellence Program)

Internship Experience

Amazon, 2024.06-2024.09
Research Scientist Intern
Guotai Junan Securities, 2018.12-2019.03
Equity Research Intern

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Conference Reviewers/Program Committee

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