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Lei Zhang

Assistant Professor

Office: PM 459
Email: zhanglei@niu.edu
Website: https://zhanglei.page/ and https://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~zhang

Education

  • Ph.D., Virginia Tech

Areas of Interest

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Graph Learning
  • AI for Science
  • Bi-Level Optimization

Representative publications

Google Scholar Profile

  • Zhang, L., Chen, Z., Lu, C.-T., & Zhao, L. (2025). Network Interdiction Goes Neural. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Vol. 2, pp. 3774–3785.
  • Zhang, L., Zhang, Q., Chen, Z., Sun, Y., Lu, C.-T., & Zhao, L. (2025). Implicit Graph Neural Network for Deep Graph Transformation. Knowledge and Information Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-025-02468-5
  • Fang, J., Zhang, L., & Luo, W. (2025). Planet Scale Mars Image Retrieval for Fast Mapping with Interactive Refinement. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL).
  • Chen, Z., Zhang, L., & Zhao, L. (2024). Unifying Spectral and Spatial Graph Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
  • Zhang, L., Chen, Z., Lu, C.-T., & Zhao, L. (2023). Fast and Adaptive Dynamics-on-Graphs to Dynamics-of-Graphs Translation. Frontiers in Big Data. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2023.1274135
  • Chen, Z., Chen, F., Zhang, L., Ji, T., Fu, K., Zhao, L., Chen, F., Wu, L., Aggarwal, C., & Lu, C.-T. (2023). Bridging the Gap between Spatial and Spectral Domains: A Unified Framework for Graph Neural Networks. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(5). https://doi.org/10.1145/3627816
  • Zhang, L., Zhang, Q., Chen, Z., Sun, Y., Lu, C.-T., & Zhao, L. (2023). Infinitely Deep Graph Transformation Networks. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
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