Lei Zhang

Assistant Professor

Psychology/Computer Science Building, room 459
zhanglei@niu.edu
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Education

  • Ph.D., Virginia Tech

Areas of Interest

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Graph learning
  • AI for science
  • Bi-level optimization

Representative Publications

Google Scholar Profile

  • Zhang, L., Chen, Z., Lu, C.-T., and Zhao, L. (2025). Network Interdiction Goes Neural. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Vol. 2, pp. 3774–3785.
  • Zhang, L., Zhang, Q., Chen, Z., Sun, Y., Lu, C.-T., and Zhao, L. (2025). Implicit Graph Neural Network for Deep Graph Transformation. Knowledge and Information Systems.
  • Fang, J., Zhang, L., and Luo, W. (2025). Planet Scale Mars Image Retrieval for Fast Mapping with Interactive Refinement. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL).
  • Chen, Z., Zhang, L., and Zhao, L. (2024). Unifying Spectral and Spatial Graph Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
  • Zhang, L., Chen, Z., Lu, C.-T., and Zhao, L. (2023). Fast and Adaptive Dynamics-on-Graphs to Dynamics-of-Graphs Translation. Frontiers in Big Data.
  • Chen, Z., Chen, F., Zhang, L., Ji, T., Fu, K., Zhao, L., Chen, F., Wu, L., Aggarwal, C., and Lu, C.-T. (2023). Bridging the Gap between Spatial and Spectral Domains: A Unified Framework for Graph Neural Networks. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(5).
  • Zhang, L., Zhang, Q., Chen, Z., Sun, Y., Lu, C.-T., and Zhao, L. (2023). Infinitely Deep Graph Transformation Networks. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).