Fan Zhang (章帆)

CSE Ph.D. Student @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong

I'm currently a first-year Ph.D. student at Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Pheng-Ann Heng. Previously, I gained valuable experience as a research intern at Alibaba Group and Tencent.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal AI, and Agentic Systems, with an emphasis on post-training, evaluation, deep research, and their applications.

Email: fzhang25@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Wechat: ZF_Karl

Please feel free to contact me for communication and collaboration.

News

2026.05Two papers are accepted by ICML 2026. Congrats to all.
2026.01Two papers are accepted by ICLR 2026. Congrats to all.
2025.11Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2026. Congrats to all.
2025.09One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
2025.08I join CUHK CSE Department as a PhD student, under the supervision of Prof. Pheng-Ann Heng.
2025.04I start my internship at Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group.
2024.08I start my internship at Tencent YouTu Lab.

Selected Publications

For full publications, please refer to my Google Scholar

ICLR2026

MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models

Fan Zhang, Zebang Cheng, Chong Deng, Haoxuan Li, Zheng Lian, Qian Chen, Huadai Liu, Wen Wang, YiFan Zhang, Renrui Zhang, Ziyu Guo, Zhihong Zhu, Hao Wu, Haixin Wang, Yefeng Zheng, Xiaojiang Peng, Xian Wu, Kun Wang, Xiangang Li, Jieping Ye, Pheng-Ann Heng

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

CCF Rank A

project

NeurIPS2025

CellVerse: Do Large Language Models Really Understand Cell Biology?

Fan Zhang, Tianyu Liu, Zhihong Zhu, Hao Wu, Haixin Wang, Donghao Zhou, Yefeng Zheng, Kun Wang, Xian Wu, Pheng-Ann Heng

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2025

CCF Rank A

project

ACL2025

A Survey on Foundation Language Models for Single-cell Biology

Fan Zhang, Hao Chen, Zhihong Zhu, Ziheng Zhang, Zhenxi Lin, Ziyue Qiao, Yefeng Zheng, Xian Wu