Biography

LUO Yanchen (罗晏宸)

LUO Yanchen is currently a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, under the supervision of Prof. Jian Huang. Before that, he was a Ph.D. student at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), supervised by Prof. Xiangnan He and Prof. Xiang Wang, where he also received his B.Sc. degree from the School of the Gifted Young.

His current research focuses on AI4Science, Agent4Science, and AI4Science Safety, including foundation and generative models for molecules and proteins, autonomous scientific agents for hypothesis generation and experiment planning, and robust, uncertainty-aware deployment of scientific AI systems.

PS: Please do not use my USTC email as it will be expiring soon.

Selected Publications

For a full list, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

NeurIPS 2025

Towards Unified and Lossless Latent Space for 3D Molecular Latent Diffusion Modeling

Yanchen Luo, Zhiyuan Liu, Yi Zhao, Sihang Li, Kenji Kawaguchi, Tat-Seng Chua, Xiang Wang

NeurIPS 2025

3D-GSRD: 3D Molecular Graph Auto-Encoder with Selective Re-mask Decoding

Chang Wu, Zhiyuan Liu, Wen Shu, Liang Wang, Yanchen Luo, Wenqiang Lei, Yatao Bian, Junfeng Fang, Xiang Wang

ICLR 2025

NExT-Mol: 3D Diffusion Meets 1D Language Modeling for 3D Molecule Generation

Zhiyuan Liu*, Yanchen Luo*, Han Huang, Enzhi Zhang, Sihang Li, Junfeng Fang, Yaorui Shi, Xiang Wang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Tat-Seng Chua

TKDD 2025

Self-attentive Rationalization for Interpretable Graph Contrastive Learning

Sihang Li*, Yanchen Luo*, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Longfei Li, Jun Zhou, Tat-Seng Chua

ToRS 2025

A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems

Keqin Bao, Jizhi Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Yang Zhang, Zhengyi Yang, Yanchen Luo, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Qi Tian

iScience 2024

Text-guided Small Molecule Generation via Diffusion Model

Yanchen Luo, Sihang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Jiancan Wu, Zhengyi Yang, Xiangnan He, Xiang Wang, Qi Tian

ICDE 2024

Masked Graph Modeling with Multi-View Contrast

Yanchen Luo, Sihang Li, Yongduo Sui, Junkang Wu, Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang

ICLR 2024

Towards 3D Molecule-Text Interpretation in Language Models

Sihang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Yanchen Luo, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Kenji Kawaguchi, Tat-Seng Chua, Qi Tian

EMNLP 2023

MolCA: Molecular Graph-Language Modeling with Cross-Modal Projector and Uni-Modal Adapter

Zhiyuan Liu, Sihang Li, Yanchen Luo, Hao Fei, Yixin Cao, Kenji Kawaguchi, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

* Equal contribution.

Contact

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