About Me

I am a third-year undergraduate student in the Fuxi Class of Computer Science and Technology at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, advised by Prof. Yiqun Zhang. My research focuses on data mining, time series analysis, and unsupervised representation learning, with a particular interest in learning robust and interpretable representations from noisy, redundant, and dynamic multivariate time series data.

I have published 11 papers, with nearly 100 citations on Google Scholar. My work has appeared in venues including SIGKDD, AAAI, BIBM, PRICAI, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, TNNLS, and Neurocomputing, and spans applications such as time series clustering, early medical prediction, streaming data mining, and robust outlier detection. I also serve as the rank-1 host of a national-level undergraduate innovation project and have received honors including the National Scholarship and the National First Prize in the Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition.

Education

Guangdong University of Technology
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology
2023.09 – Present
Huizhou Hualuogeng High School
2020.09 – 2023.06

Research Interests

  • Time Series Representation Learning
  • Unsupervised Learning and Data Mining

News

  • 2026: Our team won the Grand Prize in the Huashang Smart Performance: Global AI Scenario-Based Practical Innovation Competition. (The Highest Prize)
  • 2026: One paper was accepted by SIGKDD 2026.
  • 2026: One paper was accepted by AAAI 2026.
  • 2025: One paper was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
  • 2025: One paper was accepted by IEEE BIBM 2025.
  • 2025: One paper was accepted by PRICAI 2025.
  • 2025: Our team won the Third Prize in the National “Challenge Cup” Competition.
  • 2025: Our team won the First Prize in the National Finals of the China Collegiate Computing Competition. (The Highest Prize)

Selected Publications

Conference Papers

Mask the Redundancy
AAAI · 2026
Mask the Redundancy: Evolving Masking Representation Learning for Multivariate Time-Series Clustering
Zexi Tan, Xiaopeng Luo, Yunlin Liu, Yiqun Zhang*
Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
CCF-A
KDD2026
SIGKDD · 2026
AnchorMoE: Interpretable Time Series Classification via Anchor-Routed MoE
Tao Xie, Zexi Tan, Haoyi Xiao, Mengke Li, Yiqun Zhang*, Yang Lu, Cuie Yang, Yiu-ming Cheung
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
CCF-A
BIBM2025
BIBM · 2025
DE3S: Dual-Enhanced Soft-Sparse-Shape Learning for Medical Early Time-Series Classification
Tao Xie†, Zexi Tan†, Haoyi Xiao, Yiqun Zhang*, Binbin Sun
Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.
CCF-B
PRICAI2025
PRICAI · 2025
MEET-Sepsis: Multi-Endogenous-View Enhanced Time-Series Representation Learning for Early Sepsis Prediction
Zexi Tan, Tao Xie, Binbin Sun, Xiang Zhang, Yiqun Zhang*, Yiu-ming Cheung*
Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
CCF-C

Journal Papers

IoTJ2025
IoTJ · 2025
Hierarchical Reference Sets for Robust Unsupervised Detection of Scattered and Clustered Outliers
Yiqun Zhang, Zexi Tan, Xiaopeng Luo*, Yunlin Liu
IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
JCR Q1 Top
TNNLS2025
TNNLS · 2025
Learning Self-Growth Maps for Fast and Accurate Imbalanced Streaming Data Clustering
Yiqun Zhang, Sen Feng, Pengkai Wang, Zexi Tan, Xiaopeng Luo, Yuzhu Ji*, Rong Zou, Yiu-ming Cheung*
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
JCR Q1 Top, ESI Highly Cited Paper
NEUCOM2025
NEUCOM · 2025
SDENK: Unbiased Subspace Density-k-Clustering
Rong Zou, Yunfan Zhang, Mingjie Zhao, Zexi Tan, Yiqun Zhang*, Yiu-ming Cheung*
Neurocomputing.
JCR Q1

Projects

Complex Time Series Representation Learning

I serve as the host and rank-1 member of a national-level undergraduate innovation training project on complex time series representation learning, selected with a top 1% selection rate and completed with an outstanding evaluation. This project targets a central challenge in real-world temporal data: how to learn compact, discriminative, and semantically reliable representations from noisy, redundant, and heterogeneous multivariate time series signals.

My work develops a series of representation learning frameworks around multi-view enhancement, adaptive masking, redundancy suppression, and structure-preserving contrastive learning. Rather than treating time series as ordinary sequential inputs, this line of research focuses on identifying the sparse but decisive temporal patterns behind complex signals, with applications in unsupervised time series clustering, early medical time series prediction, and scalable temporal data mining.

This project has led to multiple first-author research outcomes, including papers accepted by AAAI 2026, BIBM 2025, and PRICAI 2025, as well as ongoing submissions to top-tier venues such as ICDE, SIGMOD, and TPAMI. The team also won the National First Prize in the Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition, where I served as the host and rank-1 member.

Robust Unsupervised Learning and Pattern Discovery

I also lead a Guangdong Provincial Tech Innovation Project on robust unsupervised learning for high-dimensional and dynamic data. The project was selected as one of only 13 projects university-wide and one of only two undergraduate projects, reflecting its competitiveness and research potential.

This research line studies how unsupervised models can remain reliable when data distributions are imbalanced, drifting, sparse, or contaminated by mixed outlier structures. My work focuses on unbiased subspace clustering, adaptive streaming data clustering, cluster imbalance, concept drift, and the joint detection of scattered and clustered outliers in complex IoT and dynamic data environments.

Representative outcomes include publications in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and Neurocomputing, covering robust outlier detection, imbalanced streaming data clustering, and subspace density-based clustering. The project also supported award-winning research recognized in the Challenge Cup competition, including a provincial grand prize and a national third prize.

Honors and Awards

Competitions and Research Awards

  • International Grand Prize, Huashang Smart Performance: Global AI Scenario-Based Practical Innovation Competition, 2026 Rank-2 member; The highest prize.

  • National First Prize, Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition, Big Data Track, 2025 Rank-1 member and project host; The highest prize; officially recommended by Prof. Xiaoyong Du.

  • National Third Prize, “Challenge Cup” National Undergraduate Academic Competition, Natural Science Academic Paper Track, 2025 Rank-3 member; advanced from the provincial grand prize team.

  • Provincial Grand Prize, Guangdong “Challenge Cup” Undergraduate Academic Competition, Natural Science Academic Paper Track, 2025 Top-ranked provincial award; The highest prize; officially recommended by Prof. Weiming Shen and Prof. Hongming Cai.

  • National Third Prize, “Challenge Cup” Technological Innovation Track, 2024 Core member.

  • Bronze Award / Provincial Third Prize, China International College Students’ Innovation Competition, Guangdong Division, 2024 Technological innovation track; core member.

  • Provincial Third Prize, Guangdong Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2024 Responsible for algorithm implementation and code development.

  • Provincial Third Prize, Lanqiao Cup C/C++ Programming Competition, Guangdong Region, 2024 Individual programming competition.

Scholarships and Academic Honors

  • National Scholarship, 2024–2025 One of the highest national-level scholarships for undergraduates in China.

  • PRICAI+IVCNZ Student Scholarship, 2025 International scholarship; recommended by Prof. Yiu-ming Cheung.

  • First Prize, NSFOCUS Public Welfare Foundation Education Scholarship, 2025 The only recipient in Guangdong University of Technology.

  • Lianji Outstanding Student Scholarship, 2025

  • Lianji Outstanding Team Scholarship, 2025 Received twice.

  • Ting Hsin Scholarship, 2025

  • 37 Interactive Entertainment University Student Empowerment Scholarship, 2024

  • First-Class University Scholarship, Guangdong University of Technology, 2024

  • Third-Class University Scholarship, Guangdong University of Technology, 2025

  • Outstanding Student Leader Scholarship, Guangdong University of Technology, 2024

Academic Services

  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
  • Reviewer, The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2024 & 2025
  • Reviewer, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025