Zhixun Li<br>(李志勋) | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

About Me

I am a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), fortunately advised by Prof. Jeffrey Xu Yu and Prof. Hong Cheng. Previously, I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). My research interests include LLM Reasoning, AI for Science, and Data Mining.

I am currently on the job market. If you have any internship or full-time opportunities available, please feel free to reach out to me.

Research Intern. Qwen Team, Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group. Feb. 2026 - Present. Research on long-horizon agentic post-training.
Research Intern. Ling Team, InclusionAI, Ant Group. Jun. 2025 - Feb. 2026. Research on LLM post-training.
Research Intern. AI4S Group, Microsoft Research. Oct. 2024 - Mar. 2025. Research on AI for Science.
Research Intern. Ant Group. Jul. 2024 - Oct. 2024. Research on data mining.
Research Intern. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jul. 2021 - Jun. 2023. Research on data mining.

[Apr. 2026] Four papers are accepted to ACL 2026 (2 main, 2 findings).
[Apr. 2026] We released Qwen3.6-Plus. From frontend web development to complex, repository-level problem solving, Qwen3.6-Plus sets a new state-of-the-art standard. More details please refer to this link.
[Jan. 2026] One paper about crystal property prediction is accepted to ICLR 2026.
[Oct. 2025] We released the first open-source, trillion-scale thinking model, Ring-1T. More details please refer to our Technical Report.
[May. 2025] Our preprint survey paper "Materials Generation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Survey" is released.
[Jan. 2025] One paper about multi-agent systems is accepted to ICLR 2025.
[Jan. 2025] One paper about long-tailed node classification is accepted to WWW 2025.
[Nov. 2024] One paper about fairness without demographics is accepted to SIGKDD 2025.
[Sep. 2024] Two papers about graph data pruning are accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
[Aug. 2024] We organized a tutorial at KDD 2024 in Barcelona, for more details please click here.
[Jul. 2024] One short paper about fake news detection is accepted to CIKM 2024.
[May. 2024] Two papers are accepted to SIGKDD 2024.
[May. 2024] One paper about community detection is accepted to VLDB 2024.
[Apr. 2024] Our survey about Graph meets Large Language Models is accepted to IJCAI 2024.
[Sep. 2023] Our graph structure learning benchmark is accepted to NeurIPS 2023.

(Full list of publications can be found in Google Scholar)

Area Chair: KDD 2026 D&B track
Conference Reviewer: WWW 2026, ICLR 2026, NeurIPS 2025, WWW 2025, ICLR 2025, KDD 2024, ICDE 2024, GFM@WWW 2024, ICDM 2023
Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Teaching Assistant: FTEC4001 (2023 Fall), SEEM3550B (2024 Spring), FTEC4002 (2024 Fall), FTEC4007 (2025 Spring)