About Me

Hi! I’m Zuoyu Yan (严祚宇), a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, working with Prof. Fei Wang.

I obtained my PhD degree from Peking University, advised by Prof. Zhi Tang and Prof. Liangcai Gao. During my Ph.D., I have also been fortunate to collaborate with Prof. Chao Chen, Prof. Yusu Wang, Prof. Tengfei Ma, and Prof. Muhan Zhang.

Before starting Ph.D., I finished my undergraduate study at the Yuanpei College of Peking University, an exemplary high-quality and pioneering undergraduate college, majoring in Data Science.

Research Interests: My research interest lies in the intersection of machine learning and topological data analysis. In particular, I am interested in:

  1. Enhancing modern machine learning frameworks, e.g., graph neural networks, with topology/geometry.
  2. Applying these models in real-world scenarios, e.g., biomedicine, and recommendation systems.

This is my CV. If you are interested in my research, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me through zuy4001@med.cornell.edu.

📝 Selected Publications

  • An Efficient Subgraph GNN with Provable Substructure Counting Power [Paper] [Code]

    Zuoyu Yan, Junru Zhou, Liangcai Gao, Zhi Tang, Muhan Zhang

    ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2024

  • Cycle Invariant Positional Encoding for Graph Representation Learning [Paper][Code]

    Zuoyu Yan, Tengfei Ma, Liangcai Gao, Zhi Tang, Chao Chen, Yusu Wang

    The Second Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG), 2023 (Oral)

  • Neural Approximation of Graph Topological Features [Paper] [Code]

    Zuoyu Yan, Tengfei Ma, Liangcai Gao, Zhi Tang, Yusu Wang, Chao Chen

    Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022 (Spotlight)

  • Cycle Representation Learning for Inductive Relation Prediction [Paper] [Code]

    Zuoyu Yan, Tengfei Ma, Liangcai Gao, Zhi Tang, Chao Chen

    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022

  • Link Prediction with Persistent Homology: An Interactive View [Paper] [Code]

    Zuoyu Yan, Tengfei Ma, Liangcai Gao, Zhi Tang, Chao Chen

    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021

  • Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition with Bidirectionally Trained Transformer [Paper] [Code]

    Wenqi Zhao, Liangcai Gao, Zuoyu Yan, Shuai Peng, Lin Du, Ziyin Zhang

    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2021 (Best Poster Award, 2 out of 340 submissions)

🏫 Professional Services

Conference Reviewer for:

  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
  • Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG)