Yu Rong (荣钰)
Hi! I am currently the head of Language And Science Lab (LASA) of DAMO Academy of Alibaba Group. I am generally interested in developing the novel and efficient models with various complex data structures, includeing graphs and sequences to tackle real-world challenges, particularly in the realm of Language and Science.
Prior joining DAMO Academy, I served as a principal researcher at Tencent AI Lab for seven years. I briefly served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I received Ph.D degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016, under the supervision of Professor Hong CHENG. Before that I obtained my B.S. degree with honors from Sun Yat-sen University.
JOB OPENINGS NOW!!: I am looking for highly motivated full-time positions / research interns on large language model and AI for Science.🔥 What's New
Nov, 2024 | One paper is accepted by ICDE 2025! |
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Nov, 2024 | One paper about sustainable battery recycling is published by Nature Communications! Check out this Link |
Nov, 2024 | One paper for the protein desgin is accepted by KDD 2025! Check out our project page: PAAG |
Aug, 2024 | The campus recruitment of Damo Academy has started, offering four positions related to AI4Sci. |
Aug, 2024 | I will serve as Area Chair for ICLR 2025. |
🔍 Current Research Topics
- Deep Graph Learning
- Foundations of Graph Neural Network
- Large Language Models
- AI for Science
- AI for Drug Discovery
- Physical Dynamic Simulation
📝 Recent Publications
2024
2023
💬 Talks
🎖Honors and Awards
- 2022, Champion of 2nd Open Catalyst Challenge, NeurIPS
- 2020, 10% of High-scoring Reviewers, NeurIPS
- 2017, Research Fellowship Scheme, CUHK
- 2012, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, SYSU
- 2012, National Undergraduate Scholarship, MoE
- 2011, Google Excellence Scholarship, Google