About me
I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), supervised by Prof. Chengqi Zhang and Prof. Tongliang Liu.
My research interests include large language models, AI agents, and AI for science. I am particularly interested in how language models and agentic systems can support scientific discovery.
Research interests
Large language models
Language, reasoning, and learning.
AI agents
Intelligent systems that reason and act.
AI for science
AI methods for scientific discovery.
Selected publications
Published papers
6Symmetry-Guaranteed Prediction of High-Order Tensor Properties for Crystalline Materials via Irreducible Decomposition
SeqDiCO: Sequence-oriented Diffusion for Scale-Generalizable Neural Combinatorial Optimization
Graph contrastive learning of subcellular-resolution spatial transcriptomics improves cell type annotation and reveals critical molecular pathways
Graph contrastive learning over subcellular RNA neighborhoods improves cell type annotation and highlights cell type-specific molecular pathways.
Citation
@article{lu2025focus,
title = {{Graph contrastive learning of subcellular-resolution spatial transcriptomics improves cell type annotation and reveals critical molecular pathways}},
author = {Lu, Qiaolin and Ding, Jiayuan and Li, Lingxiao and Chang, Yi},
year = {2025},
journal = {Briefings in Bioinformatics},
volume = {26},
number = {1},
pages = {bbaf020},
doi = {10.1093/bib/bbaf020}
}SpatialCTD: A Large-Scale Tumor Microenvironment Spatial Transcriptomic Dataset to Evaluate Cell Type Deconvolution for Immuno-Oncology
A human tumor microenvironment benchmark and graph neural network method for spatial cell type deconvolution.
Citation
@article{ding2024spatialctd,
title = {{SpatialCTD: A Large-Scale Tumor Microenvironment Spatial Transcriptomic Dataset to Evaluate Cell Type Deconvolution for Immuno-Oncology}},
author = {Ding, Jiayuan and Li, Lingxiao and Lu, Qiaolin and Venegas, Julian and Wang, Yixin and Wu, Lidan and Jin, Wei and Wen, Hongzhi and Liu, Renming and Tang, Wenzhuo and Dai, Xinnan and Li, Zhaoheng and Zuo, Wangyang and Chang, Yi and Lei, Yu Leo and Shang, Lulu and Danaher, Patrick and Xie, Yuying and Tang, Jiliang},
year = {2024},
journal = {Journal of Computational Biology},
volume = {31},
number = {9},
pages = {871--885},
doi = {10.1089/cmb.2024.0532}
}DANCE: a deep learning library and benchmark platform for single-cell analysis
An extensible deep learning toolkit and benchmark platform for reproducible single-cell analysis.
Citation
@article{ding2024dance,
title = {{DANCE: a deep learning library and benchmark platform for single-cell analysis}},
author = {Ding, Jiayuan and Liu, Renming and Wen, Hongzhi and Tang, Wenzhuo and Li, Zhaoheng and Venegas, Julian and Su, Runze and Molho, Dylan and Jin, Wei and Wang, Yixin and Lu, Qiaolin and Li, Lingxiao and Zuo, Wangyang and Chang, Yi and Xie, Yuying and Tang, Jiliang},
year = {2024},
journal = {Genome Biology},
volume = {25},
pages = {72},
doi = {10.1186/s13059-024-03211-z}
}Preprints
3AI4Materials: A Survey of Chemistry-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science
Leveraging Hyperbolic and Euclidean Representations in Tandem for Metal-Organic Framework Gas Adsorption Prediction
Thinking vs. NoThinking: Towards Interpreting Reasoning Mechanisms of Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders
Citation
@misc{cheng2026thinking,
title = {{Thinking vs. NoThinking: Towards Interpreting Reasoning Mechanisms of Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders}},
author = {Cheng, Bo and Lu, Qiaolin and Chang, Yi and Wu, Yuan},
year = {2026},
eprint = {2608.08168},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {cs.CL},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08168}
}More publications
1MEM-GAN: A Pseudo Membrane Generator for Single-cell Imaging in Fluorescent Microscopy
Experience
- 2025–Present
PhD Student
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong
Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
- 2022–2025
Master’s Degree
Jilin University (JLU)
School of Artificial Intelligence
Get in touch
For research discussions and collaboration, please email qiaolinlu99@gmail.com.