Lecheng Zheng
Scholar

Lecheng Zheng

Google Scholar ID: Lp09wUoAAAAJ
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heterogeneous LearningGraph MiningMulti-modal LearningAnomaly DetectionMulti-label Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
584
 
H-index
12
 
i10-index
15
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
13
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications:
  • - One paper accepted by ICDM 2025
  • - Two papers accepted by CIKM 2025
  • - One paper "Cluster Aware Graph Anomaly Detection" accepted @ WWW’25 as an oral presentation
  • - One paper "DrGNN: Deep Residual Graph Neural Network with Contrastive Learning" accepted @ TMLR'24
  • - One paper "Multi-label Sequential Sentence Classification via Large Language Model" accepted @ EMNLP’24
  • - One paper "Heterogeneous Contrastive Learning for Foundation Models and Beyond" accepted @ KDD’24
  • - One paper "MULAN: Multi-modal Causal Structure Learning and Root Cause Analysis for Microservice Systems" accepted @ WWW’24
  • - One paper "FairGen: Towards Fair Graph Generation" accepted @ ICDE’24
  • - One paper "Fairness-aware multi-view clustering" accepted @ SDM’23
  • - One paper "MentorGNN: Deriving Curriculum for Pre-Training GNNs" accepted @ CIKM’22
  • - One paper "Contrastive learning with complex heterogeneity" accepted @ KDD’22
  • - One paper "Outlier impact characterization for time series data" accepted @ AAAI’22
  • - One paper "Deep co-attention network for multi-view subspace learning" accepted @ WWW’21
  • - Conference Papers:
  • - Bi-NAS: The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2025
  • - PyG-SSL: CIKM 2025
  • - ClimateBench-M: CIKM 2025
Research Experience
  • - NEC Search, Princeton, NJ
  • - Research Intern • May 2023 - Aug 2023
  • - Project: Multi-modal Root Cause Analysis
  • - Achievements: One paper accepted at WWW'24 (Oral). Two in submission.
  • - Main Advisors: Dr. Zhengzhang Chen and Dr. Haifeng Chen
Education
  • - Ph.D.: 2019 - 2025, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), Department of Computer Science, Advisor: Prof. Jingrui He
  • - B.S.: 2012 - 2016, University of Kansas, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Advisor: Prof. Luke Huan
Background
  • - Research Interests: Enhancing the trustworthiness and efficiency of machine learning algorithms, covering multi-modal fusion, multi-label/multi-task learning, missing value imputation, graph generation, bias, fairness, robustness, and transferability, graph anomaly detection, graph oversmoothing.
  • - Field: Computer Science
  • - Introduction: Currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Miscellany
  • - Personal Interests: Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you are interested in my research and want to discuss relevant research topics or potential collaborations