Zheyuan (Frank) Liu

Zheyuan (Frank) Liu

Senior Student majoring in Computer Science and Applied Math

Brandeis University

About me

Hi, I am Zheyuan (Frank) Liu (刘哲源), a fourth year student at Brandeis University studying Computer Science (B.S) and Applied Mathematics, advised by Prof. Chuxu Zhang. Please refer to my new academic website.

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Upcoming News:

  • I will be joining University of Notre dame to work with Prof. Meng Jiang. Looking forward to start my new PhD journey!
  • 2023/1/25 Our paper was selected for publication as a regular paper for WWW conference!
  • 2023/1/21 Our paper was selected for publication as a regular paper for ICLR 2023!
Interests
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Graph Mining
  • Cybersecurity
  • Federated Learning
  • Data-Efficient AI
Education
  • B.S. in Computer Science, 2023

    Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

  • B.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2023

    Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

  • High School Diploma, 2019

    Gould Academy, Bethel, ME

Skills

Python
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Java
JavaScript
Pytorch
SQL
Linux Command

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Improving Fairness of GNN Representation by diversity discovery
Jun 2022 – Present Waltham, MA

Responsibilities include:

  • Analyzed the unique property of graph fairness data.
  • Aimed to boost the performance of GNN model on fairness graph data while alleviating the oversmoothing problem.
  • Enriched the representation diversity of model from three perspectives: the node embedding of fairness graph data, learned representation across different experts in Mixed of Expert (MOE), and learned representation across different-depth layers.
  • Analyzed loss landscape of the model to empirically and theoretically explain the effectiveness of diversity learning.
  • Successfully improved the accuracy of a newly designed GNN based model under adversarial training and fairness data while restraining the oversmooth problem from happening.
 
 
 
 
 
Bridging Graph and Text for Malicious Behavior Detection on Social Media
Dec 2021 – Jun 2022 Waltham, MA

Responsibilities include:

  • Signified harmful posts/comments manually from more than 60k tweets to serve as positive/negative samples during the training process.
  • Collected project related information (e.g. BERT, GNN and contrasive learning), and helped run experiments on baseline models.
  • Helped run the experiments on new designed model over two tasks: malicious user detection and malicious tweet detection.
  • Assisted the first author to draft a manuscript of the work and submitted to ICDM conference.
 
 
 
 
 
Network-based virus-host interaction prediction with application to SARS-CoV-2
May 2021 – Aug 2021 Waltham, MA

Responsibilities include:

  • Designed the website through front end languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, etc.) to display the relationship between the protein groups of different types of coronavirus with different hosts.
  • Imported the previous work data of the paper from github to construct website, which can be used to identify potential infected host groups based on similar structure of the protein groups. (Simple version of the website)
  • Updated website based on the most recent result given by the algorithm.
 
 
 
 
 
Visualizing the COVID-19 Trend Prediction
Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 Waltham, MA

Responsibilities include:

  • Designed a website to hold data of a machine learning algorithm that predicted the COVID-19 trend based on the ground truth using front end languages (Javascript, HTML, CSS, etc. ) and python.
  • Pulled data from Airtable and transferred it using Python to make it compatible with the website.
  • Modified the website to be user-friendly, which also serves as a platform to compare the groundtruth/predicted cases of each state.
  • Co-published the work to medRxiv.

Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assitant
Sep 2021 – Present Waltham, MA

Responsibilities include:

  • Acted as teaching assistant for Python, JAVA and Operating System classes (3 different courses), held office hours each week helping students with programming assignments and questions about the content from the lecture.
  • Assisted Professor grade assignments, exams and gave feedback to students.
 
 
 
 
 
Software Development Intern
Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 Hangzhou, China

Responsibilities include:

  • Utilized TypeScript and JavaScript to develop online VR showroom for dif- ferent companies.
  • Tested compatibility of VR Device (HTC Vive) with computers with different CPU and GPU and gave feedback on device configuration and setup.

Awards and Honors

Molly W. and Charles K. Schiff Memorial Award in Science (top 5%)
Each year, students in the Division of Science who have excelled in academics and research are selected to receive numerous prizes and awards in recognition of their effort. Undergraduates are typically nominated by a faculty member or members who provide a letter detailing why the student deserves the honor.
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Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund (5000 dollars)
The Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund supports a Brandeis student’s research or creative scholarship during the summer or academic semester. The student who is selected to accept fellowship will receive 5000 dollars of research funding and will be conducted an independent research project under a self- chosen adviser.
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Patent of a new type of packing tool
A new type of suitcase packing machine that takes advantage of the corperation between ratchet and claws.
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Papers

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(2023). G-Fame: Fair Graph Representation Learning via Diverse Mixture of Experts. WWW 2023.

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(2023). Chasing All-Round Graph Representation Robustness: Model, Training, and Optimization. ICLR 2023.

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(2022). GraphBERT: Bridging Graph and Text for Malicious Behavior Detection on Social Media. ICDM 2022.

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(2021). State-level COVID-19 Trend Forecasting Using Mobility and Policy Data. medRxiv.

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