Biography

I am a first-year PhD student in the joint program between Zhejiang University and Westlake University (2025—), advised by Prof. Yue Zhang. My current research interests focus on Multimodal Learning and LLM-based Agents. Alongside my research, I am actively working on several innovation and entrepreneurship projects. For a complete list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

Before starting my PhD, I worked as a research assistant at Westlake University (2023—2025). I received my M.Eng. from Tianjin University (2020—2023), advised by Asst. Prof. Meishan Zhang, and my B.Sc. from Huazhong Agricultural University (2016—2020).

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Selected Publications

For the full and most up-to-date list, please visit my Google Scholar page. (^* Equal contribution)

Conference Papers

1. AutoFigure-Edit: Generating Editable Scientific Illustrations via Reference-Guided Styling.
   Zhen Lin, Qiujie Xie, Minjun Zhu, Shichen Li, QiYao Sun, Enhao Gu, Yiran Ding, Ke Sun, Fang Guo, Panzhong Lu, Zhiyuan Ning, Yixuan Weng, Yue Zhang. ACL 2026 (Demo)

2. AiraXiv: An AI-Driven Open-Access Platform for Human and AI Scientists.
   Junshu Pan^*, Panzhong Lu^*, Yixuan Weng^*, QiYao Sun^*, Fang Guo, Zijie Yang, Qiji Zhou, Yue Zhang. ACL 2026 (Demo)

3. AutoFigure: Generating and Refining Publication-Ready Scientific Illustrations.
   Minjun Zhu, Zhen Lin, Yixuan Weng, Panzhong Lu, Qiujie Xie, Yifan Wei, Sifan Liu, Qiyao Sun, Yue Zhang. ICLR 2026 (Main)

4. Rethinking Unsupervised Outlier Detection via Multiple Thresholding.
   Zhonghang Liu, Panzhong Lu, Guoyang Xie, Zhichao Lu, Wen-Yan Lin. ECCV 2024 (Main)

5. Extending Phrase Grounding with Pronouns in Visual Dialogues.
   Panzhong Lu, Xin Zhang, Meishan Zhang, Min Zhang. EMNLP 2022 (Main)

Preprints

1. Airalogy: AI-empowered universal data digitization for research automation.
   Zijie Yang, Qiji Zhou, Fang Guo, Sijie Zhang, Yexun Xi, Jinglei Nie, Yudian Zhu, Liping Huang, Chou Wu, Yonghe Xia, Xiaoyu Ma, Yingming Pu, Panzhong Lu, Junshu Pan, Mingtao Chen, Tiannan Guo, Yanmei Dou, Hongyu Chen, Anping Zeng, Jiaxing Huang, Tian Xu, Yue Zhang. arXiv preprint 2025

2. Image-of-Thought Prompting for Visual Reasoning Refinement in Multimodal Large Language Models.
   Qiji Zhou, Ruochen Zhou, Zike Hu, Panzhong Lu, Siyang Gao, Yue Zhang. arXiv preprint 2024

Projects

Airalogy, 2025

The world's first universally cross-disciplinary platform for digitizing, automating, and accelerating scientific research. Now live in production. I co-lead the back-end AI API system.

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FastDetectGPT, 2025

One of our commercialized products currently in operation. Independently built the full-stack user account system (front-end & back-end), the back-end payment pipeline, and the token-billing & metering system.

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Students Online Quiz System, 2024

Independently designed and implemented an Online Quiz System using Django, which has been deployed on a cloud server for teachers to conduct classes and students to take tests.

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Customized Virtual Digital Human, 2023

Employed innovative Large Language Model, Automatic Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, and Talking Head Generation technologies to develop interactive, tailor-made virtual digital personas.

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Human-Computer Interaction in Simulation Environment, 2022

Utilized UAV to capture images of a simulation environment, then used image descriptions to direct the UAV's flight to a specific position. Implemented a pixel-based technique to determine distance by tracking image pixel changes.

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Visual Language Navigation in Real Environment, 2021

Explored visual language navigation for UAV in real environment using the VLNCE model. Predicted user instructions and RGB/depth images transmitted to UAV via ROS for corresponding actions.

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Patents

1. A Scientific Research Activity Management and Application Platform Supporting Multi-Disciplinary Sharing.
   Yue Zhang, Zijie Yang, Fang Guo, Qiji Zhou, Panzhong Lu, Junshu Pan, Tian Xu.
   China Patent Application CN202510086469.X, filed January 20, 2025, and published May 16, 2025 as CN120013466A.

2. Multimodal Scientific Research Data Recording Method, System, Terminal, and Storage Medium.
   Yue Zhang, Zijie Yang, Qiji Zhou, Fang Guo, Junshu Pan, Panzhong Lu, Tian Xu.
   China Patent Application CN202510086467.0, filed January 20, 2025, and published May 16, 2025 as CN120011362A.

3. A Multi-Modal-Oriented Interactive Data Annotation Method and System.
   Meishan Zhang, Panzhong Lu (1st student), Yueheng Sun.
   China Patent Application CN202210478381.9, filed May 5, 2022, and issued September 13, 2022.

4. A Method and Device for Analyzing Human-Computer Interaction Instructions based on Multi-Modal Semantic Role Recognition.
   Meishan Zhang, Panzhong Lu (1st student), Zhichao Lin, Yueheng Sun.
   China Patent Application CN202210659318.5, filed June 13, 2022, and issued November 11, 2022.

Awards

• 2023, Second Place of Faculty and Staff Men's 200m, The 2023 Westlake University Games.
• 2021, Merit Student, Tianjin University.
• 2020, Third Prize of Humor Recognition Evaluation Task, China Computational Linguistics Association.
• 2020, Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Huazhong Agricultural University.
• 2018, National Encouragement Scholarship.
• 2017, National Encouragement Scholarship.

Teaching

• 2023 Fall, Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Westlake University.