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Education

PhD candidate in Data Science and Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), 2024 - Present
- Information Hub, Thrust of Data Science and Analytics
- Advisor: Prof. Lei Chen (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow)
- Co-advisor: Prof. Yongqi Zhang
- Research Focus: Large Language Models, Data Mining, Deep Learning for Data Engineering
B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence, Sun Yat-sen University, 2020 - 2024
- School of Artificial Intelligence
- GPA: 3.9/4.0, Rank: 7/71 (Top 10%)
- Thesis: Awarded University-level Excellent Thesis (Advisor: Prof. Libin Zheng)

Saturn: Agentic Natural Language-Driven Tabular Data Discovery
Zuohan Wu, Jiachuan Wang, Jiake Ge, Xujia Li, Libin Zheng, Yongqi Zhang, Shuangyin Li, Lei Chen
VLDB 2027, Accepted; to appear
[Code]
Superficial Reflection or Genuine Thought? A Fine-Grained Cognitive Analysis of Large Reasoning Models
Yuxiang Chen^*, Zuohan Wu^*, Ziwei Wang, Xiangning Yu, Xujia Li, Linyi Yang, Mengyue Yang, Jun Wang, Lei Chen
Findings of AACL-IJCNLP 2026, Accepted; to appear
^*Equal contribution.
[PDF] [Code] [Earlier arXiv version]
Efficient Zero-Shot and Label-free Log Anomaly Detection for Resource-Constrained Systems
Zuohan Wu, Jiachuan Wang, Libin Zheng, Yongqi Zhang, Shuangyin Li, Lei Chen
2026 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2026), pp. 671-684, CCF-A
[DOI] [PDF] [Code] [DBLP]
DA-RAG: Dynamic Attributed Community Search for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Xingyuan Zeng, Zuohan Wu, Yue Wang, Chen Zhang, Quanming Yao, Libin Zheng, Jian Yin
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW 2026), pp. 2195-2206, CCF-A
[DOI] [PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [DBLP]
Opponent-aware Order Pricing towards Hub-oriented Mobility Services
Zuohan Wu, Libin Zheng, Chen Jason Zhang, Huaijie Zhu, Jian Yin, Di Jiang
39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2023), CCF-A
[DOI] [DBLP]

VPLight: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Traffic Signal Control With Pedestrian Dynamics
Xinyu Zhang, Zuohan Wu, Chen Jason Zhang, Libin Zheng, Peng Cheng, Jian Yin, Cyrus Shahabi
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 2079-2093, 2026, CCF-A
[DOI] [DBLP]
DRLPG: Reinforced Opponent-Aware Order Pricing for Hub Mobility Services
Zuohan Wu, Chen Jason Zhang, Han Yin, Rui Meng, Libin Zheng, Huaijie Zhu, Wei Liu
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 3298-3311, 2025, CCF-A
[DOI] [DBLP]

RuleMem: Active Rule Memory for Long-Term Conversational Agents
Xingyuan Zeng, Zuohan Wu, Yue Wang, Chen Zhang, Quanming Yao, Wei Liu, Jiuke Wang, Libin Zheng, Jian Yin
arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.03915, 2026
[arXiv] [PDF]

A Chinese Essay Review Method and Framework Based on Collocation Rhetoric Grammar Correction
Guosheng Liang, Kaixuan Jiang, Zuohan Wu, Dongling Li, Guangya Liu, Jianxing Yu, Jian Yin
Chinese Patent CN115952789A, Published 2023

Research Intern, Central Research Institute, CVTE (Vision Technology Co., Ltd.)
2023 - 2024

Led the algorithmic development of Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR), a challenging computer vision task
Innovatively proposed a triple-alignment approach connecting image features, graph representations, and structured language (SMILES), forming the core technical solution of the project
Developed and implemented end-to-end pipeline for molecular structure recognition from images

DSAA 6100 — Practical Lab Course
Fall 2026 · HKUST(GZ)
Take weekly lab sessions.
UFUG 1601 — Introduction to Computer Science
Spring 2026 · HKUST(GZ)
Take weekly lab sessions.

National First Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), Nov. 2021
- Ranked top 0.65% among approximately 49,000 participating teams nationwide
National Bronze Prize, China Undergraduate Algorithm Design and Programming Challenge, 2020
Outstanding Student Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University, 2020 & 2021 & 2022 (3 times)

Last updated: November 2026