CV
Jiawen Zhang / 张佳雯
Educational Background
2022 - 2026
The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology
Ph.D. Candidate in Data Science and Analytics
GPA: 3.98/4.3
Supervisor: Prof. Jia
Li & Prof. Xiaofang Zhou
Research Interests: Time series forecasting,
Irregular-sampled time series modeling, AI4Healthcare
2018 - 2021
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)
M.Eng. in Computer Technology
GPA: 3.72/4.0
Supervisor: Prof. Jiaqi
Zhu
Research Interests: Few-shot learning, Knowledge
graph
2014 - 2018
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
(BUPT)
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
B.Sc. Hons in Telecommunication Engineering
GPA: 3.71/4.0, First class degree (Top 5%)
Supervisor: Dr. Marie-luce
Bourguet (QMUL) & Prof. Gentiane Venture (The University of
Tokyo)
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction
Reaserch Experiences
12/2021 - 04/2023
Machine Learning Group, Microsoft Research Asia,
Beijing
Research Intern
11/2019 - 11/2021
Multi-Media Understanding Group, Kwai Technology,
Beijing
NLP Algorithm Engineer Intern
03/2018 - 05/2018
GVLab Robotics Laboratory, Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Tokyo
Visiting Student
Publications
See Google Scholar for full publication list.
2025
Xiaobin Hong, Jiawen Zhang, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu, Jia Li. (2025). Unify and Anchor: A Context-Aware Transformer for Cross-Domain Time Series Forecasting. ArXiv. [paper]
Z. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zheng, Y. Gu, J. Bian. (2025). Does Cross-Domain Pre-Training Truly Help Time-Series Foundation Models? In Proc. of ICLR, Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild. [paper]
2024
J. Zhang, S. Zheng, X. Wen, X. Zhou, J. Bian and J. Li. (2024). ElasTST: Towards Robust Varied-Horizon Forecasting with Elastic Time-Series Transformer. In Proc. of NeurIPS 2024. [paper][code]
J. Zhang, X. Wen, Z. Zhang, S. Zheng, J. Li and J. Bian. (2024). ProbTS: Benchmarking Point and Distributional Forecasting across Diverse Prediction Horizons. In Proc. of NeurIPS 2024. [paper][code]
2023
J. Zhang, S. Zheng, W. Cao, J. Bian and J. Li. (2023). Warpformer: A Multi-scale Approach for Irregularly Sampled Multivariate Time Series. In Proc. of KDD 2023. [paper][code]
Z. Gao, C. Jiang, J. Zhang, X. Jiang, L. Li, P. Zhao, H. Yang, Y. Huang and J. Li. (2023). Hierarchical Graph Learning for Protein-Protein Interaction. Nature Communications 2023. [paper]
X. Sun, J. Zhang, X. Wu, H. Cheng, Y. Xiong and J. Li. (2023). Graph prompt learning: A comprehensive survey and beyond. ArXiv. [paper]
Y Li, J. Zhu, C. Zhang, Y. Yang, J. Zhang and Y. Qiao. (2023). THGNN: An Embedding-based Model for Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Heterogeneous Social Networks. In Proc. of CIKM 2023. [paper]
2021
J. Zhang, J. Zhu, Y. Yang, W. Shi, C. Zhang and H. Wang. (2021). Knowledge-Enhanced Domain Adaptation in Few-Shot Relation Classification. In Proc. of KDD 2021. [paper][code]
Y. Yang, H. Wang, J. Zhu, W. Shi, W. Guo and J. Zhang. (2021). Effective Seed-Guided Topic Labeling for Dataless Hierarchical Short Text Classification. In Proc. of ICWE 2021 (pp. 271-285). [paper]
2020
- J. Zhang, Y. Zhao, J. Zhu and J. Xiao. (2020). Distant Supervision for Polyphone Disambiguation in Mandarin Chinese. In Proc. of INTERSPEECH 2020. [paper]
2018
- J. Zhang, M.L. Bourguet and G. Venture. (2018). The Effects of Video Instructors Body Languageon Students Distributionof Visual Attention: an Eye-tracking Study. In Proc. of British HCI 2018. [paper]
Teaching Experience
09/2024 - 12/2024 DSAA 5002 Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery in Data Science
Teaching Assistant
02/2025 - 05/2025 UFUG 2602 Data Structure
and Algorithm Design
Teaching Assistant
Service
Reviewer for NeurIPS, SIGKDD, VLDB, WWW, and ICDE.
Key Technical Skills
- Python > C > JAVA = MATLAB
- Familiar with Linux system, PyTorch, PyTorch-Lightening
- Proficiency in spoken and written English (all the courses were deliveried in English in the undergraduate years)
- Adobe Photoshop
- Native Chinese speaker
- Graphic design & Drawing
- Table tennis
Scholarship & Awards
- 2024 Excellent Research Award (HKUST-GZ)
- 2023 Research Travel Grant (HKUST-GZ)
- 2020-2021 First-Class Scholarship (UCAS)
- 2018-2020 Academic Scholarship (UCAS)
- 2018 Excellent Graduation Thesis (BUPT)
- 2018 Undergraduate College Prize 2018 (QMUL)
- 2018 Outstanding Overseas Project Scholarship (QMUL)