Lifan Zheng 郑力凡
PhD student in Software Engineering
Southeast University Nanjing, China
I am a PhD student at Southeast University, advised by Prof. Fan Liu. I have also had the opportunity to collaborate with Yu Tian. Previously, I was a Research Assistant at Zhejiang University and received my M.A. in Computational Sociology from Central South University.
My path to engineering began in the social sciences. I carry that curiosity with me.
- LLMs
- Agents
- VLA
- WAM
Recently
Champion of the MetaFine Open Competition (Team MAI).
Papers accepted by ACL 2026 (Findings +2).
Paper accepted by AAAI 2026.
Paper accepted by Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Competitions
RoboFineMani Workshop at CoRL 2026
MetaFine Open Competition
Evaluation-guided demonstration refinement for fine-grained robot manipulation.
Task illustrations: MetaFine organizers
Publications & reports
Rethinking the Reliability of Multi-agent System: A Perspective from Byzantine Fault Tolerance
The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Introduces a Byzantine fault tolerance perspective to evaluate reliability limits in LLM-based multi-agent systems.
DPN-LE: Dual Personality Neuron Localization and Editing for Large Language Models
The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Agent-Based Modelling of High-Rise Building Fires Reveals Self-Rescue Behaviours and Better Fire Protection Designs
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Builds an agent-based framework to study self-rescue behavior and improve high-rise fire protection design.
Education & experience
2026.03 — present
Southeast University
PhD in Software Engineering
2024.12 — 2025.12
Zhejiang University
Research Assistant, Computational Social Science Research Center
2021.09 — 2024.07
Central South University
M.A. in Computational Sociology
2017.09 — 2021.07
Shanxi University
B.M. in Labor and Social Security
Honors & awards
- 2026MetaFine Open Competition Champion
Team MAI - 2023Outstanding Student of the Year
Central South University - 2021Outstanding Graduate of Shanxi Province
Outstanding Graduation Thesis
Academic service
Conference reviewer
ACL Rolling Review
Journal reviewer
Knowledge-Based Systems
Let's be in touch.
I welcome conversations and research collaborations.
z1ivan@seu.edu.cn