I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Prior to joining NCSU, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on drug discovery and synthetic biology with Prof. James J. Collins. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Rice University, 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Xia (Ben) Hu. I received the Bachelor degree from Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in 2015, and received the Master degree from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2018.

His research interests lie in developing efficient, trustworthy, and use-inspired machine learning algorithms in the fields of graph representation learning, language models, and AI for science & engineering. His research contributes to tackling challenges in various applications including synthetic biology, drug discovery, and network analysis.

Email: kzhou22 at ncsu.edu.

Prospective students: I am looking for self-motivated students. Please feel free to drop me an email kaixiong.zhou.001@gmail.com together with resume and transcripts if you are interested.

News

Aug. 2024: Join NCSU ECE as an Assistant Professor, 2024.

Sep. 2023: Join MIT IMES as a Postdoc, 2023.

Apr. 2023: One paper accepted by ICML, 2023.

Apr. 2023: One paper accepted by IJCAI, 2023.

Dec. 2022: Two papers accepted by SDM, 2023.

Sept. 2022: One paper accepted by QTML, 2022.

Sept. 2022: One paper accepted by NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2022.

Aug 2022: One paper accepted by CIKM, 2022.

June 2022: Thrilled to receive the Student Travel Award, KDD 2022.

May 2022: Thrilled to start my summer internship at Google.