• I'm a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Northwestern University, MS (Electrical and Computer Engineering) degree from University of Rochester. BS (Software Engineering) degree from Central South University. I'm proud to have graduated from Guiyang No.1 High School. My research interests include large language models, diffusion models, graph neural networks, and energy-based models.
• If you are interested in collaborating with me in code-LLM, information retrieval, drug design, or other domains, please don’t hesitate to contact me! Let’s have a chat!
• email: A = "zhenyupan", B = "@u.northwestern", C = ".edu"; address = A + B + C

News

• [2024-06] I'm starting a new internship at Tongyi Lab@Alibaba Group.
• [2023-04] 1 paper was accepted to ICS 2023.
• [2023-02] 1 paper was accepted to DAC 2023.
• [2022-11] 1 paper was accepted to AAAI 2023.
• [2022-09] 1 paper was accepted to ICCD 2022.

Award

• [2024-09] Northwestern University Fellowship
• [2023-02] 2023 AAAI Student Travel Grant

Publication

• Codev-Bench: How Do LLMs Understand Developer-Centric Code Completion?
  Zhenyu Pan, R.Cao, Y.Cao, Y.Ma, B.Li, F.Huang, H.Liu, Y.Li
  [arXiv 2024/10]

• HeteGraph-Mamba: Heterogeneous Graph Learning via Selective State Space Model
  Zhenyu Pan, Y.Jeong, X.Liu, H.Liu
  [arXiv 2024/05]

• Conv-CoA: Improving Open-domain Question Answering in Large Language Models via Conversational Chain-of-Action
  Zhenyu Pan, H.Luo, M.Li, H.Liu
  [arXiv 2024/05]

• Chain-of-Action: Faithful and Multimodal Question Answering through Large Language Models
  Zhenyu Pan, H.Luo, M.Li, H.Liu
  [arXiv 2024/03]

• CoRMF: Criticality-Ordered Recurrent Mean Field Ising Solver
  Zhenyu Pan, A.Gilani, E.Kuo, Z.Liu
  [arXiv 2024/03]

• Ising-Traffic: Using Ising Machine Learning to Predict Traffic Congestion under Uncertainty
  Zhenyu Pan, Anshujit Sharma, J.Hu, Z.Liu, A.Li, H.Liu, M.Huang, T.Geng
  37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [AAAI 2023]

• Software-Hardware Co-design of Heterogeneous SmartNIC System for Recommendation Models Inference and Training
  A.Guo, Y.Hao, C.Wu, P.Haghi, Zhenyu Pan, M.Si, D.Tao, A.Li, M.Herbordt and T.Geng
  36th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing [ICS 2023]

• Ising-CF: A Pathbreaking Collaborative Filtering Method Through Efficient Ising Machine Learning
  Z.Liu, Y.Yang, Zhenyu Pan, A.Sharma, A.Hasan, C.Ding, A.Li, M.Huang and T.Geng
  60th Design Automation Conference [DAC 2023]

• On the Design of Quantum Graph Convolutional Neural Network in the NISQ-Era and Beyond
  Z.Hu, J.Li, Zhenyu Pan, S.Zhou, L.Yang, C.Ding, O.Khan, T.Geng, W.Jiang
  40th International Conference on Computer Design [ICCD 2022]

Research Experience

• Working as a research intern in Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group, 06/2024 - 11/2024.

Academic Service

• Conference Reviewer: CVPR (2024,2025), NeurIPS 2024, EMNLP 2024, LoG 2024, AAAI 2025, ICLR 2025, AISTATS 2025
• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Teaching Assistant

• ECE-101: Intro to Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE-113: Circuits and Signals
• ECE-221: Electronic Devices and Circuits
• ECE-222: Analysis & Design of Integrated Circuits