Zhiqiang Zhong

👋 About Me

I’m a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoc and Young International Academics (YIA) Fellow at University of Luxembourg 🇱🇺, working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jun PANG and Prof. Dr. Daniel ABANKWA. I lead the KDRecell project on knowledge-enhanced deep learning for cell reprogramming.

🔬 Research focus: the intersection of AI and science — 🕸️ Graph Machine Learning, 🤖 Foundation Models & LLM Agents, 🧠 Knowledge-augmented Machine Learning and 🧬 AI for Science.

🤝 Let’s collaborate! Whether you’re 🎓 looking for an internship or student job, 🚀 interested in a research collaboration, or 💡 have an exciting project idea — don’t hesitate to reach out! 📧

🎉 What’s New

🔬 Media coverage: Luxembourg National Research Fund featured my work in their spotlight: Building AI tools to help fight disease

✅ 2026

📄 Research paper accepted by NeurIPS-2026
📄 Workshop paper accepted by ML4Molecules @ NeurIPS-2026
🏅 Awarded Reviewer at ICML-2026 and ICLR-2026
🧑‍⚖️ Area Chair of the AI4DD workshop @ NeurIPS-2026

✅ 2025

🚀 Started as MSCA Postdoc / YIA Fellow at University of Luxembourg; Principal Investigator of the KDRecell project
📄 Research paper accepted by NeurIPS-2025
📄 Survey paper accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) IF 23.8 🏆
📄 Findings paper accepted by NAACL-2025
🏅 Awarded Reviewer at KDD-2025, TKDE and TNNLS

✅ 2024

🏅 Selected for the Young International Academics (YIA) programme with joint IAS and MSCA funding (400,000 €, acceptance rate 8%)
💰 1-year project awarded by EuroHPC AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access Call 2024
🥈 Advised MSc thesis won Runner-up for IT-Speciale Prisen from IDA IT 2024
💰 3-month project awarded by EuroHPC Benchmark Access Call 2024
📄 Short paper accepted by LoG-2024
📄 Long paper accepted by ECML-PKDD-2024
📄 Findings paper accepted by ACL-2024
📄 Poster presented at ICDE-2024

Last updated: September 2026 ✨