Zhen Fang (he/him) -- Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at University of Technology Sydney


Research Group

PhD Students
  • Bo Peng, PhD @ UTS (Co-supervise with Prof Jie Lu. He started at 2024 and has published ICLR 2024, ICML 2024, NeurIPS 2024, KDD 2025, KDD 2026, ICCV 2025, NeurIPS 2025 and ICLR 2026.)

  • Kuo Shi, PhD @ UTS (Co-supervise with Prof Jie Lu. He started at 2023 and has published IEEE TFS, IEEE TSMC and ACM MM25.)

  • Jinyuan Luo, PhD @ UTS (Co-supervise with Prof Ling Chen. He started at the end of 2024 and has submitted ICML 2026.)

  • Xinyi Li, PhD @ UTS (supervise with Prof Ling Chen. She started at the end of 2025 and has submitted KDD 2026.)

  • Yongxin Deng, PhD @ UTS (co-supervise with Prof Ling Chen. He started at the end of 2025 and has published ICLR 2026.)

Master Students
  • Yuanwei Hu, Research Master @ UTS (supervise with Prof Ling Chen. He started at 2025 and has published ICLR 2026 and submitted ICML 2026.)

Alumni (former students closely worked with me):
  • Yiyang Zhang, MPhil @ THU --> visting MPhil @ UTS --> Bank of China, Beijing

  • Li Zhong, MPhil @ THU --> visting MPhil @ UTS

Strategic Partners

Friends (overseas) with whom I have worked on long-term projects (names sorted by seniority):
  • Sharon Yixuan Li, Associate Professor @ University of Wisconsin Madison, US

  • Bo Han, Associate Professor @ Hong Kong Baptist University, Hongkong SAR, China