About Me

Hi! I’m Zhixiang Shen, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, advised by Prof. Philip S. Yu.

My research interests include AI Agents, Large Language Models, and Graph Foundation Models. Previously, I worked on graph machine learning, including graph structure learning, heterogeneous graphs, and graph foundation models.

I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2021–2025, where I worked closely with Prof. Zhao Kang.

I am interested in building intelligent and efficient learning systems that can reason over structured information and interact with complex environments.

News

08/2026 Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.
07/2025 Our paper Multi-Domain Graph Foundation Models was accepted to ICML 2025.
09/2024 Our work Multiplex Graph Structure Learning was accepted to NeurIPS 2024.

Selected Publications

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Services

Conference Reviewer:
  • NeurIPS (2025, 2026)
  • ICLR (2026, 2027)
  • IJCAI (2025)
  • ACM Multimedia (2025)
Journal Reviewer:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)