Members of MedaBIT

Zong Chang

Current Working Status

• Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China (2024 - present)
  • Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Technology

Education

• Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2019 - 2024)
  • Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
  • Advisor: Prof. Yueting Zhuang
• University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (2012 - 2013)
  • M.S. in Informatics
  • Advisor: Prof. Bonnie Webber
• Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2008 - 2012)
  • B.S. in Information Security
  • Advisor: Prof. Daming Shi

Research Interests

• Knowledge Fusion and Reasoning
• AI in Biomedical QA (Cancer, Stroke, Rare Diseases)
• AI in Financial Forecasting (Stocks, Funds)
• Complex System Modeling

Publications

• EvidenceMap: Learning Evidence Analysis to Unleash the Power of Small Language Models for Biomedical Question Answering

  • Chang Zong, Jian Wan, Siliang Tang, Lei Zhang
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (SCI-Q1, CCF-C), 2025

• Structural-Temporal Coupling Anomaly Detection with Dynamic Graph Transformer

  • Chang Zong, Yueting Zhuang, Jian Shao, Weiming Lu
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (SCI-Q2, CCF-B), 2025

• Stock Movement Prediction with Multimodal Stable Fusion via Gated Cross-Attention Mechanism

  • Chang Zong, Jian Wan, Lucia Cascone, Hang Zhou
  • Complex & Intelligent Systems (SCI-Q2), 2025

• RPA: Recursive Perturbation-Based Universal Adversarial Attacks on Multimodal Generative Tasks

  • Qian Yaguan, Chen Zhihao, Bao Qiqi, Chang Zong, Yu Fei, Ji Shouling, Wang Bin, Gu Zhaoquan, Lei Zhen
  • The IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (SCI Q1, CCF-B), 2025

• ProSwitch: Knowledge-Guided Instruction Tuning to Switch Between Professional and Non-Professional Responses

  • Chang Zong, Yuyan Chen, Weiming Lu, Jian Shao, Yongfeng Huang, Heng Chang, Yueting Zhuang
  • Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025, Main Conference

• Triad: A Framework Leveraging a Multi-Role LLM-based Agent to Solve Knowledge Base Question Answering

  • Chang Zong, Yuchen Yan, Weiming Lu, Jian Shao, Yongfeng Huang, Heng Chang, Yueting Zhuang
  • The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (CCF-B), 2024, Main Conference

• Learning Global Controller in Latent Space for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

  • Zeqi Tan, Yongliang Shen, Xiaoxia Cheng, Chang Zong, Wenqi Zhang, Jian Shao, Weiming Lu, Yueting Zhuang
  • The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (CCF-A), 2024, Main Conference

• Graph neural networks meet with distributed graph partitioners and reconciliations

  • Zongshen Mu, Siliang Tang, Chang Zong, Dianhai Yu, Yueting Zhuang
  • Neurocomputing (SCI-Q1, CCF-C), 2023

• Citation Prediction via Influence Representation Using Temporal Graphs

  • Chang Zong, Yueting Zhuang, Jian Shao, Weiming Lu
  • China National Conference on Big Data & Social Computing, 2023

Pre-Prints

• Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for GUI Grounding via Region Consistency

  • Yong Du, Yuchen Yan, Fei Tang, Zhengxi Lu, Chang Zong, Weiming Lu, Shengpei Jiang, Yongliang Shen
  • Accepted by The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CCF-A), 2026

• Ask2Loc: Learning to Locate Instructional Visual Answers by Asking Questions

  • Chang Zong, Bin Li, Shoujun Zhou, Jian Wan, Lei Zhang
  • Under Revision, 2025

• Fund Selection via Dual-Screening Classification: Evidence from China

  • Chang Zong, Tao Yan, Hang Zhou, Yi Cao, Yichu Wang
  • Under Review, 2025

Professional Services

• Conference Reviewer: ICML 2025, ACL ARR 2025, ACMMM 2025, ICLR 2025/2026, NeurIPS 2024/2025, AAAI 2026
• Journal Reviewer: ACM TKDD, Expert Systems with Applications

OpenSource Project

• OpenKS: A domain generalizable knowledge learning and computing platform, Project Leader, GitHub

Research Projects

• ZUST Graduate Student Research and Innovation Fund, 2025, Advisor
• Zhejiang Province Key Research and Development Plan (Leading Project), 2025, First Participant
• Zhejiang Province Key Research and Development Plan (Geese Project), 2023, Participant
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (Special Project), 2022, Participant
• Zhejiang Province Key Research and Development Plan (Selective Commission Project), 2022, First Student Participant
• National Key Research and Development Program of China (AI 2030), 2021, Participant

Teaching

• Medical Artificial Intelligence, 2025 Autumn
• Natural Language Processing & Large Models, 2026 Autumn
• Python Programming, 2025 Spring
• Literature Review and Writing, 2025 Spring

Working Experience

• Lecturer, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China (2024 - present)
• AI Director (VP), QuantChi Data, Hangzhou, China (2018 - 2023)
  • Acknowledge to Prof. Jian Shao
• Big Data Engineer, Electronic Soul, Hangzhou, China (2016 - 2018)
  • Acknowledge to Mr. Xiaobiao Yu
• Big Data Engineer, Transfer Group, Hangzhou, China (2015 - 2016)
  • Acknowledge to Mr. Leipeng Tang
• Data Scientist, ShapeSpace Ltd. Edinburgh, UK (2013 - 2015)
  • Acknowledge to Prof. Andrew Sherlock, Dr. Christopher Ball, and Prof. Susan Carpenter (R.I.P.)

Awards

• National Service Industry Science and Technology Innovation Award
  • First Prize
  • 2025
• Intel Greater Bay Area Science and Technology Innovation Center, Youth Leadership Awards
  • Sci-Tech Innovation Youth Award
  • 2025