My name is Guancheng Wan (万冠呈) How to pronounce? My name is pronounced as “Gwan-chung Wan”. The “Gwan” rhymes with “man”, and “chung” sounds like “chung” in “chunk”., a CS Ph.D. student at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), supervised by Yizhou Sun and Wei Wang (IEEE/ACM Fellow). I obtained my B.S. degree at Wuhan University, advised by Mang Ye, Bo Du and Wenke Huang.

I am open to any research collaboration and internship, with a great record of cooperating and mentoring. 🥳 Feel free to contact me via Email or WeChat.

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🌟 📢 Seeking for Remote Intern/Assistant (RA)
We are looking for motivated research interns to work together! Almost every intern who worked with me has published papers at top conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR and CVPR. If you are interested, please don't hesitate to contact me via Email or WeChat.

🔎 Research

I am passionate about modeling the relationships among all points (e.g., nodes, tokens, or agents). My current research interests focus on three key areas:

a) (Multimodal) Large Language Models (MLLM), Large Reasoning Models, LLM-based Multi-Agent System

b) AI for Science: Biotechnology, Physics and Chemistry…

c) Trustworthy AI: Federated (Graph) Learning, MLLM Safety and Hallucination

🔥 News

  • 2025.05: 🎉 Two papers were accepted by ACL 2025 Main. Thanks to all collaborators!
  • 2025.05: 🎉 Some papers were accepted by ICML 2025 with Two Spotlights (Top 2.6%). See you in Vancouver!
  • 2024.11: 🫡 Serve as Associate Program Chair for FedKDD 2025@KDD - Welcome to submit!
  • 2025.04: 🎉 One co-first authored paper: LoRASculpt was selected as an Oral Presentation (Top 3.3%) at CVPR 2025. Thanks to all collaborators!
  • 2025.03: 🎉 One co-first authored paper: FedTGE was selected as an Oral Presentation (Top 1.8%) at ICLR 2025. Thanks to all collaborators!
  • 2025.02: 🎉 Three papers accepted by CVPR 2025 on fine-tuning and applications of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM). Thanks to all collaborators! See you in Nashville.
  • 2024.02: I serve as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2025.
  • 2024.02: 🎉 Honored to receive Graduate Research Fellowship from UCLA and UIUC.
  • 2025.01: 🎉 Two papers were accepted by ICLR 2025. See you in Singapore.
  • 2024.12: 🎉 One paper was accepted by AAAI 2025.
  • 2024.12: I serve as a reviewer for ICML 2025.
  • 2024.11: 🎈I was honored with Lei Jun Excellence Scholarship ~ 100k (The Highest Scholarship at Wuhan University, Top-4 among All Undergraduates, Award Rate ~ 0.01%)
  • 2024.11: I serve as a reviewer for CVPR 2025.
  • 2024.09: 🎉 Two papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2024. See you in Vancouver.
  • 2024.08: Organize a tutorial at KDD 2024 in Barcelona on 25th, come if you are interested in epidemics + GNN!
  • 2024.08: I serve as a reviewer for ICLR 2025.
  • 2024.06: 🎉 One paper is accepted by TPAMI, congrats to all collaborators!
  • 2024.05: I serve as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2024.
  • 2024.05: 🎉 Our survey about GNNs in Epidemic Modeling is accepted by KDD 2024. See you in Barcelona!
  • 2024.05: 🎉 One paper about self-supervised graph learning was accepted by ICML 2024. See you in Austria!
  • 2024.04: 🚀 Explore our pre-print: a deep look at using Graph Neural Networks in Epidemic Modeling. Check our collected paper list.
  • 2024.02: I serve as a reviewer for ACM MM 2024.
  • 2024.02: I serve as a reviewer for ECCV 2024.
  • 2023.12: A paper was accepted to AAAI 2024. See you in Vancouver.
  • 2023.11: I serve as a reviewer for CVPR 2024.
  • 2023.11: 🚀 We thoroughly explore three core research areas in federated learning: generalization, robustness, and fairness. Don't hesitate to utilize our benchmarking codes for your own research goal!
  • 2023.10: I attended China National Computer Congress (CNCC) and was awarded the honor of CCF (China Computer Federation) Elite Collegiate Award (102 Students nation-wide).
  • 2023.10: I won the National Scholarship for the second time (0.2% nation-wide), and was selected the Pacemaker to Merit Student (Award Rate: 60/59774=0.1%).
  • 2023.08: we attended the 32nd international joint conference on artificial intelligence (ijcai) and presented our work in macao.


📃 Selected Publications (Full List)

† Equal Contribution

2025
ICLR 2025
Energy-based Backdoor Defense Against Federated Graph Learning
Guancheng Wan, Zitong Shi†, Wenke Huang†, Guibin Zhang, Dacheng Tao, Mang Ye
Oral Presentation (Top 1.8%) in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

ICML 2025
Rethink GraphODE Generalization within Coupled Dynamical System
Guancheng Wan, Zijie Huang, Wanjia Zhao, Xiao Luo, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang
Spotlight Presentation (Top 2.6%) in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

CVPR 2025
LoRASculpt: Sculpting LoRA for Harmonizing General and Specialized Knowledge in Multimodal Large Language Models
Jian Liang†, Wenke Huang†, Guancheng Wan† (co-first), Qu Yang, Mang Ye
Oral Presentation (Top 3.3%) in Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

CVPR 2025
FedSPA: Generalizable Federated Graph Learning under Homophily Heterogeneity
Zihan Tan†, Guancheng Wan† (co-first), Wenke Huang, Guibin Zhang, He Li, Carl Yang, Mang Ye
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

ICML 2025
Epidemiology-Aware Neural ODE with Continuous Disease Transmission Graph
Guancheng Wan, Zewen Liu, Xiaojun Shan, Max S.Y. Lau, B. Aditya Prakash, Wei Jin
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025


2024
ICML 2024
S3GCL: Spectral, Swift, Spatial Graph Contrastive Learning
Guancheng Wan, Yijun Tian, Wenke Huang, Nitesh V Chawla, Mang Ye
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024

AAAI 2024
Federated Graph Learning under Domain Shift with Generalizable Prototypes
Guancheng Wan, Wenke Huang, Mang Ye
Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024


🔬 Survey and Benchmark

  • Keeping Yourself is Important in Downstream Tuning Multimodal Large Language Model

  • Protein Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

  • A Comprehensive Survey in LLM (-Agent) Full Stack Safety: Data, Training and Deployment

  • From Web Search towards Agentic Deep ReSearch: Incentivizing Search with Reasoning Agents

  • A Comprehensive Survey of Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models: Hierarchical Perspective and Extensive Applications

  • A Comprehensive Survey on Scientific Large Language Models in Physics

  • FD-Bench: A Modular and Fair Benchmark for Data-driven Fluid Simulation

🎡 Service

Conference Committee Member

  • Reviewer for ICML'2025, ICLR'2025, NeurIPS'2024/2025, AISTATS'2025
  • Reviewer for CVPR'2024/2025, ICCV'2025, ECCV'2024
  • Reviewer for AAAI'2025, IJCAI'2025, ACM MM'2024/2025

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE TIFS, TIP, TKDE, TNNLS
  • ACM TKDD
  • Pattern Recognition (PR)
  • Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR)


🎖 Scholarships and Honors

  • 2024.11 Lei Jun Excellence Scholarship (雷军卓越奖学金) ~100k (The Highest Scholarship at Wuhan University, Top-4 among All Undergraduates, Award Rate ~ 0.01%) Wuhan University

  • 2023.09 National Scholarship (Twice) (国家奖学金) (Award Rate: 0.2% nation-wide) Ministry of Education, China

  • 2022.09 National Scholarship (国家奖学金) (Award Rate: 0.2% nation-wide) Ministry of Education, China

  • 2025.03 Luo Jia Role model (榜样珞珈年度人物) (10 Students school-wide) Wuhan University

  • 2024.11 InnoStar Undergraduate Innovation Achievement Award (英诺大学生创新成果 特等奖) ~30k (Only 2 Students school-wide) Wuhan University

  • 2024.10 Luojia Undergraduate Innovation Research Fund (首批珞珈本科生研究基金) ~50k (4 Students department-wide) Wuhan University

  • 2024.06 Lei Jun Computer Innovation and Development Fund and Research Fund (雷军创新发展基金、雷军研究基金) (3 Students department-wide) Wuhan University

  • 2024.06 SenseTime Scholarship (商汤奖学金) ~20k (25 Students nation-wide) SenseTime

  • 2024.04 CS Pioneer (计科先锋年度人物) (10 Students department-wide) Wuhan University

  • 2023.10 CCF (China Computer Federation) Elite Collegiate Award (CCF优秀大学生) (102 Students nation-wide) China Computer Federation

  • 2023.10 Pacemaker to Merit Student (三好学生标兵) (Award Rate ~ 0.1%) Wuhan University


📖 Education

2025.09 - Now
PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

💼 Experience

Internship, Associate member, 2025
Topics: (M)LLM, GUI Agent
UCLA Data Mining Lab & ScAI Lab, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Internship, 2024-2025
Topics: Ai4Science, Dynamic System, Graph Neural ODE
Melody Lab, Emory University
Research Assistant, 2024
Topics: Ai4Science, Epidemiology, Graph Learning
Aditya Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Assistant, 2024
Topics: Ai4Science, Epidemiology, Graph Learning
DIAL Lab, University of Notre Dame
Research Internship, 2023
Topics: Inference Acceleration, Heterophilic Graph, Unsupervised Learning
MARS lab, Wuhan University
Research Assistant, 2023-2025
Topics: Robustness, Backdoor Attack, Graph Learning, Domain Generalization, Federated Learning
SIGMA lab, Wuhan University
Research Assistant, 2023-2025
Topics: Robustness, Backdoor Attack, Graph Learning, Domain Generalization, Federated Learning

🏀 Miscellaneous

Talks and Shares
泛化图学习与本科生科研经历分享
Undergraduate research resource and enrollment process
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Poems that inspire me
白鹭立雪,愚者看鹭,聪者观雪,智者见白 —— A white egret stands in the snow. The foolish see only the egret, the wise observe the snow, and the enlightened perceive the whiteness.
世界不黑也不白, 而是一道精致的灰 —— The world is neither black nor white, but a delicate shade of gray.
风吹到哪页,读哪页 —— The wind blows to which page, read which page..