Current Working Status
- Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China (2024 - present)
- Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Technology
Education
- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2019 - 2024)
- Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
- Advisor: Prof. Yueting Zhuang
- University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (2012 - 2013)
- M.S. in Informatics
- Advisor: Prof. Bonnie Webber
- Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2008 - 2012)
- B.S. in Information Security
- Advisor: Prof. Daming Shi
Research Interests
- Knowledge Fusion and Reasoning from Heterogeneous Data Sources
- AI in Biomedicine (Cancer, Stroke, Rare Diseases) and Finance (Stocks, Funds)
- Complex System Modeling with Knowledge-Augmented Neural Networks
Publications
- EvidenceMap: Learning Evidence Analysis to Unleash the Power of Small Language Models for Biomedical Question Answering
- Chang Zong, Jian Wan, Siliang Tang, Lei Zhang
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (SCI-Q1, CCF-C), 2025
- Structural-Temporal Coupling Anomaly Detection with Dynamic Graph Transformer
- Chang Zong, Yueting Zhuang, Jian Shao, Weiming Lu
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (SCI-Q2, CCF-B), 2025
- Stock Movement Prediction with Multimodal Stable Fusion via Gated Cross-Attention Mechanism
- Chang Zong, Jian Wan, Lucia Cascone, Hang Zhou
- Complex & Intelligent Systems (SCI-Q2), 2025
- Triad: A Framework Leveraging a Multi-Role LLM-based Agent to Solve Knowledge Base Question Answering
- Chang Zong, Yuchen Yan, Weiming Lu, Jian Shao, Yongfeng Huang, Heng Chang, Yueting Zhuang
- The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (CCF-B), 2024
- Learning Global Controller in Latent Space for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- Zeqi Tan, Yongliang Shen, Xiaoxia Cheng, Chang Zong, Wenqi Zhang, Jian Shao, Weiming Lu, Yueting Zhuang
- The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (CCF-A), 2024
- Graph neural networks meet with distributed graph partitioners and reconciliations
- Zongshen Mu, Siliang Tang, Chang Zong, Dianhai Yu, Yueting Zhuang
- Neurocomputing (SCI-Q1, CCF-C), 2023
- Citation Prediction via Influence Representation Using Temporal Graphs
- Chang Zong, Yueting Zhuang, Jian Shao, Weiming Lu
- China National Conference on Big Data & Social Computing, 2023
Pre-Prints
- Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for GUI Grounding via Region Consistency
- Yong Du, Yuchen Yan, Fei Tang, Zhengxi Lu, Chang Zong, Weiming Lu, Shengpei Jiang, Yongliang Shen
- Accepted by The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CCF-A), 2026
- ProSwitch: Knowledge-Guided Instruction Tuning to Switch Between Professional and Non-Professional Responses
- Chang Zong, Yuyan Chen, Weiming Lu, Jian Shao, Yongfeng Huang, Heng Chang, Yueting Zhuang
- Accepted by Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025
- RPA: Recursive Perturbation-Based Universal Adversarial Attacks on Multimodal Generative Tasks
- Qian Yaguan, Chen Zhihao, Bao Qiqi, Chang Zong, Yu Fei, Ji Shouling, Wang Bin, Gu Zhaoquan, Lei Zhen
- Accepted by The IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (SCI Q1, CCF-B), 2025
- Ask2Loc: Learning to Locate Instructional Visual Answers by Asking Questions
- Chang Zong, Bin Li, Shoujun Zhou, Jian Wan, Lei Zhang
- Under Review, 2025
- Fund Selection via Dual-Screening Classification: Evidence from China
- Chang Zong, Tao Yan, Hang Zhou, Yi Cao, Yichu Wang
- In Submission, 2025
Professional Services
- Conference Reviewer: ICML 2025, ACL ARR 2025, ACMMM 2025, ICLR 2025/2026, NeurIPS 2024/2025, AAAI 2026
- Journal Reviewer: ACM TKDD
OpenSource Project
- OpenKS: A domain generalizable knowledge learning and computing platform, Project Leader, GitHub
Research Projects
- ZUST Graduate Student Research and Innovation Fund, 2025, Advisor
- Zhejiang Province Key Research and Development Plan (Leading Project), 2025, First Participant
- Zhejiang Province Key Research and Development Plan (Geese Project), 2023, Participant
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (Special Project), 2022, Participant
- Zhejiang Province Key Research and Development Plan (Selective Commission Project), 2022, First Student Participant
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (AI 2030), 2021, Participant
Teaching
- Medical Artificial Intelligence, 2025 Autumn
- Natural Language Processing & Large Models, 2025 Spring
- Python Programming, 2025 Spring
- Literature Review and Writing, 2025 Spring
Working Experience
- Lecturer, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China (2024 - present)
- AI Director (VP), QuantChi Data, Hangzhou, China (2018 - 2023)
- Acknowledge to Prof. Jian Shao
- Big Data Engineer, Electronic Soul, Hangzhou, China (2016 - 2018)
- Acknowledge to Mr. Xiaobiao Yu
- Big Data Engineer, Transfer Group, Hangzhou, China (2015 - 2016)
- Acknowledge to Mr. Leipeng Tang
- Data Scientist, ShapeSpace Ltd. Edinburgh, UK (2013 - 2015)
- Acknowledge to Prof. Andrew Sherlock, Dr. Christopher Ball, and Prof. Susan Carpenter (R.I.P.)
