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Kai Zhang is a Special Research Associate and master’s supervisor in the School of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Data Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from USTC in 2023. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, natural language processing, large language models, knowledge representation and reasoning, and multimodal data mining. Zhang has published more than 60 papers in leading venues including ACL, KDD, SIGIR, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TAC, and ACM TOIS, with over 40 as first or corresponding author. His work has received recognitions such as best paper nominations at international AI conferences, best student paper awards at Chinese machine learning events, and inclusion in ESI highly cited or hot papers. He holds more than 20 national invention patents.