People and collaborators

Current group members, visitors, and alumni connected to the lab's research foundations in artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, machine learning, natural language processing, social networks, and trustworthy agentic AI.

Group members

The group welcomes prospective PhD and Master students interested in agentic AI, generative systems, computational social science, trustworthy machine learning, and human-centred AI systems.

Lab Director

PhD Students

ZHedong Lin (林哲栋)

To Start PhD

ZHedong Lin (林哲栋)

I received my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Technology from Southwest University in 2024. I am currently working under the guidance of Prof. Jiamou Liu, and my research focuses on LLMs, multimodal generative AI, and applications such as text-to-image and text-to-video generation, image and video editing, and controllable diffusion models. I will soon begin my PhD studies at the University of Auckland, continuing to work under the supervision of Prof. Jiamou Liu.

Haoyuan Li (李浩源)

2026.04 -- Present

Haoyuan Li (李浩源)

I received my master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Auckland and my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Shandong University of Technology. In 2022, I worked as a psychological counselor, which inspired my interest in applying AI technologies to real-world healthcare challenges. My research interests focus on AI for healthcare, particularly leveraging machine learning and deep learning techniques to support mental health and clinical decision-making. I am also interested in the intersection of Web3 and cryptocurrency technologies, exploring how decentralized systems can reshape digital identity and finance. Additionally, I am passionate about the practical applications of LLMs in areas such as medical consultation, intelligent assistants, and knowledge-driven services.

Zhaoqi Wang (王兆麒)

2026.03 -- Present

Zhaoqi Wang (王兆麒)

Zhaoqi Wang received his bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017 and his master's degree from IAE Paris – Sorbonne Business School, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in 2023. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Cyberspace Science and Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology. He has previously worked at Microsoft Research Asia and Kuaishou, where he gained research and industry experience in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. His research interests lie in AI security, with a particular focus on prompt injection attacks and defenses, GEO poisoning attacks and defenses, self-evolving agents, and misinformation verification. He is also interested in building robust, trustworthy, and secure AI systems for real-world applications.

Chunlong Xie (谢春龙)

2025.12 -- Present

Chunlong Xie (谢春龙)

I received my Bachelor's degree from Chongqing University in 2021 and am currently a Ph.D. candidate there (transferred from the Master's program in 2023). I am now a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Auckland. My research focuses on adversarial attacks (e.g., jailbreaking, prompt injection) against generative AI, including LLMs, VLMs, T2I, and Agents.

Runchen Xu (徐润辰)

2025.11 -- Present

Runchen Xu (徐润辰)

I completed my Master's degree in Computer Technology at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2025, and received my Bachelor’s degree from UESTC in 2022. My research focuses on decentralized artificial intelligence, model markets, and federated learning. I am also broadly interested in mobile computing and wireless communications.

Sijing Yin (尹思静)

2025.07 -- Present

Sijing Yin (尹思静)

I earned my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Technology from the School of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Software at Southwest University in 2023. Subsequently, I completed my master’s degree in Data Science at the School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, in 2024. My research focuses on AI-driven generation and the application of LLMs in education.

Zhongsheng Wang (王钟声)

2025.04 -- Present

Zhongsheng Wang (王钟声)

I received my undergraduate degree in CS from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Southwest University in 2023 and master degree in DS at the School of Computer Science, University of Auckland in 2024. My research focuses on multimodal reasoning, AIGC, and trustworthy AI agents. Also I am currently the maintainer of this website.

Zhirui Zeng (曾梽芮)

2024.09 -- Present

Zhirui Zeng (曾梽芮)

I earned my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Chongqing University in 2022 and 2025, respectively. My research focuses on the privacy and security of large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, exploring techniques to enhance robustness, mitigate vulnerabilities, and ensure trustworthy AI deployment.

Pengqian Han (韩朋谦)

2021.10 -- Present

Pengqian Han (韩朋谦)

I got my master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Beihang University in 2018 and got my bachelor's degree from Hebei University of Technology in 2014. I have been an engineer in China Mobile Group Tianjin Company from 2018 to 2021. My main research interests are machine learning, deep learning, and graph-based neural network.

Weidong Li (李伟东)

2020 -- Present

Weidong Li (李伟东)

Weidong received a degree of Bachelor of Science (Honours) with First Class Honours in Computer Science from the University of Auckland in 2019. She received a Bachelor of History from Capital Normal University in 2013. Her research interests include social network analysis, multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning.

Xiaoxuan Li (李晓璇)

2020 -- Present

Xiaoxuan Li (李晓璇)

I received my honours (First Class) degree in computer science from The University of Auckland in 2019 and received my bachelor's degree from The Tianjin University of Technology in 2015. My primary scientific interests focus on exploring Natural Language Process (NLP) technology to facilitate Robotic Process Automation (RPA), in particular in discovering business process flow from natural language texts.

Lin Ni (倪琳)

2020 -- Present

Lin Ni (倪琳)

Lin Ni, a practitioner and academic, is keen to turn AI technologies into concrete value. She received a B.E. degree from Northeastern University (China) in 2010, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Auckland in 2017. She lands technologies and provides AI solutions to address the challenges in the industry, dabbled in Car Navigation systems, Recommendation systems, Multi-agent systems, and Natural Language Processing projects. Chatbots attract her focus in recent years, especially chatbots in the health and medical domain.

Master Students

  • Siyun Wen (温思云) 2026 --
  • Binfeng Luo (罗斌峰) 2026 --
  • Yu Shu (舒宇) 2026 --

Visitors

Sajjad Hassanpour

Sajjad Hassanpour

Sajjad Hassanpour is a Ph.D. student in Construction Engineering at the University of Auckland. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology in 2010, and his M.Sc. degree in transportation planning-at the Trabiat Modares University of Iran in 2012. During his Ph.D. in transportation planning, as he was interested in computer science, he started working on agent-based modeling and computer-based simulation models. Therefore, he started a new Ph.D. at the University of Auckland, focusing on agent-based building earthquake evacuation simulation. He is interested in pedestrian dynamics, multiagent systems, and machine learning.

Alumni

PhD Alumni

Libo Zhang (张立博)

2022.02 -- 2026.03

Libo Zhang (张立博)

I received a degree of Master of Professional Studies with First Class Honours in Data Science, the Graduate Diploma in Science from the University of Auckland in 2021, and the Bachelor degree from the Southwest University in 2020. My personal research interests lie in the reinforcement learning and the multi-agent systems. In detail, I am interested in the challenges in both cooperative and non-cooperative settings in adapting reinforcement learning to multi-agent systems.

Yiping Liu (刘一平)

2019. 11 -- 2025.07

Yiping Liu (刘一平)

I received my bachelor of mathmatics and master of engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology. My major interest lies in the network structures and dynamics. Recently my research focuses on the core/periphery structures. I am also interested in the theoretical analysis of machine learning, graph-based neural network, and so on.

Yifei Wang (王逸非)

2020 -- 2025.05

Yifei Wang (王逸非)

I received my master degree in computer science and technology from the Beihang University in 2020, and bachelor in software engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2017. My main research interests are machine learning and deep learning, especially Graph-based models and Self-supervised models. Recently, I am focused on constructing hybrid models combining anchor-based graph and neural networks to solve real-world problems with Self-supervised learning.

Qiming Bao (包启明)

2020.02 -- 2024.12

Qiming Bao (包启明)

Qiming received a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree with First Class Honours in Computer Science from the University of Auckland in 2019. His research interests lie in the intersection between natural language processing and question answering. Recently his research mainly focuses on machine reasoning. His main research activities involve natural language understanding, natural language inference, and soft reasoning; topics of interest include problem decomposition, knowledge acquisition, explanation, entailment, and generate QA. He is also interested in the graph-based neural network.

Qianqian Qi (齐倩倩)

2019.9 -- 2024.12

Qianqian Qi (齐倩倩)

I received my M.Sc. degree specialised in Communications and Signal Processing from Imperial College London in 2014, and my B.Eng. degree major in Electronic and Information Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2013. After that, I worked as a software engineer in Singapore for more than 4 years. I am now doing research in the field of Natural Language Processing, mainly on natural language understanding and generation.

Song Yang (杨松)

2019.12 -- 2024.05

Song Yang (杨松)

I got my master degree of computer science from the University of Auckland in 2018 and got my bachlor degree from Nanjing University in 2016. My main research interests are machine learning, deep learning, graph-based neural network and computer vision. I also do reserach related to artificial intelligence in healthcare and software engineering.

Zeyu Zhang (张泽宇)

2018.09 -- 2023.07

Zeyu Zhang (张泽宇)

I received my bachelor degree from Wuhan Institute of Technology and master degree from Wuhan University of Technology. I have been a lecturer in Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology from 2015 to 2018. My research interests include social network analysis, especially network embedding.

Jaron Mar

2018. 08 -- 2023. 04

Jaron Mar

I received both my Honours (First Class) and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Computer Science from The University of Auckland. My research interests lie broadly in Natural Language Processing with my recent research focusing on the intersection between Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.

Mengxiao Zhang (张梦筱)

2017. 04 -- 2021. 11

Mengxiao Zhang (张梦筱)

I hold Bachelor's degree of Management in Information Management and Information Systems and Master's degree of management in Management Science and Engineering. My research interests are algorithmic mechanism design and economics of security and privacy. My current research focus is incentive mechanisms for data pricing and privacy preservation.

Yang Chen (陈阳)

Yang Chen (陈阳)

He built this website.

Master Alumni

  • Yuchen Li (李雨辰) 2026.09
  • Jibiao Jiang (蒋继标) 2026.09
  • Qiwen Yan (闫琦文) 2026.09
  • Zhongxuan Yang (杨仲煊) 2026.09
  • Yuanbo Tong (童源波) 2026.09
  • Yikai Gu (谷艺恺) 2026.09
  • Zelong Dong (董泽龙) 2026.09
  • Zirui Wang (王梓睿) 2026.09
  • Yang Jin (金洋) 2026.09
  • Zhexin Zhao (赵哲新) 2026.09
  • Boyu Ren (任博宇) 2025.09
  • Ming Lin (林铭) 2025.09
  • Maoyuan Li (李茂源) 2025.09
  • Xiao Tang (汤骁) 2025.09
  • Yutan Chang (常煜坦) 2025.09
  • Haoyuan Li (李浩源) 2025.09
  • Menglin Zou (邹孟林) 2025.09
  • Peixin Sun (孙培鑫) 2025.09
  • Anlin Wu (吴岸霖) 2025.09
  • Guannan Ji (季冠男) 2025.09
  • Yijie Cheng (程羿杰) 2025.09
  • Chunhou Liu (刘醇厚) 2025.09
  • Zhuoheng Li (李卓衡) 2025.09
  • Xiuyuan Zhang (张修源) 2025.09
  • Haizhou Peng (彭海洲) 2025.09
  • Zongrui Yang (杨宗睿) 2025.09
  • Huazhe Cheng (程华喆) 2025.09
  • Xiaojun Xiao (肖小俊) 2024.09
  • Hongfei Rong (荣鸿飞) 2024.09
  • Yuly Wu (吴忧) 2024.09