Scholar
Yifan Niu
Google Scholar ID: vGe5WB4AAAAJ
PhD student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
120
H-index
3
i10-index
2
Publications
7
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published several papers including 'Mini-Game Lifetime Value Prediction in Wechat' (KDD 2025), 'RelEdit: Evaluating Conceptual Knowledge Editing in Language Models via Relational Reasoning' (ACL 2025 Findings), 'IBCircuit: Towards Holistic Circuit Discovery with Information Bottleneck' (ICML 2025). Also contributed to a chapter in the book 'Deep Learning in Drug Design: Methods and Applications'. Won multiple awards such as Meritorious Winner in Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM) 2018, Second Prize in Beijing Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest 2018, etc.
Research Experience
- Research Intern at Tencent AI Lab - Machine Learning Center, Shenzhen, from Dec 2022 to Oct 2024, working with Tingyang Xu, Yu Rong, and Yatao Bian; Research Intern at SenseTime Group Limited - Urban Computing Group, Beijing, from Aug 2021 to Mar 2022, working with Haoran Wang.
Education
- PhD candidate in Data Science and Analytics at HKUST, advised by Prof. Jia Li and Prof. Yuan Yao, expected to graduate in June 2026.
Background
- Currently a third-year PhD student in Data Science and Analytics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), focusing on reinforcement learning and accelerating the training of large-scale multimodal large language models.
Miscellany
- Open to collaborations and communications, feel free to drop an email for contact.