CV

Academic CV and selected professional record.

Contact Information

Name Yifei Zhang
Professional Title Professor
Email yifei.zhang@nwpu.edu.cn
Location No. 127 Youyi Xilu, Beilin District, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072

Professional Summary

Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern Polytechnical University. My research focuses on data-centric machine intelligence, including self-supervised learning, agentic learning, spatial intelligence, representation learning, and knowledge discovery from large-scale multimodal data.

Experience

  • 2025 - Present

    Xi'an, China

    Professor, Department of Computer Science
    Northwestern Polytechnical University
  • 2024 - 2025

    Singapore

    Research Scientist, CCDS
    Nanyang Technological University
  • 2019 - 2020

    China

    Data Scientist
    Alibaba Group
  • 2018 - 2019

    China

    Software Engineer
    JD.com

Education

  • 2020 - 2024

    Hong Kong

    Ph.D.
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Computer Science
  • 2016 - 2018

    Australia

    M.S.
    Australian National University
    Computer Science
  • 2012 - 2016

    China

    B.E.
    Zhengzhou University

Professional Services

Awards

  • 2025
    National Youth Talent Award
  • 2024
    Aoxiang Youth Overseas Talent Fellowship
  • 2020
    Full Postgraduate Studentship
  • 2018
    Dean's List
  • 2016
    National Scholarship

Research Grants

Selected Publications

Skills

Research Areas: Trustworthy Machine Learning, Federated Learning, Graph Learning, Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models, Continual Learning, Robustness, Fairness