I am an MPhil student in the DSA thrust under the Information Hub at HKUST(GZ) and CityMind Lab, supervised by Prof. Yuxuan Liang. My research interests include Foundation Model Architecture, Agents, Interpretability, and AI4S . If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at rli541@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn.

🔥 News

• 2026.10: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ^{IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics} (SCI Q1, CCF B)
• 2026.09: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ^{BIBM 2026 Oral} (CCF B)
• 2026.08: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ^{EMNLP 2026 Oral} (CCF B)
• 2026.03: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ^{IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics} (SCI Q1, CCF B)
• 2025.08: 🎉 I join the HKUST(GZ) as an MPhil student!
• 2025.07: 🎉 The recipient of the National “Role Model of the Times” Qu Jianwu Scholarship (Top 0.027%)
• 2025.06: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ^{IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics} (SCI Q1, CCF B)
• 2025.05: 🎉 The recipient of the DMU Youth May Fourth Medal “Star of Technological Innovation” (Top 0.003%)
• 2025.04: 🎉 The recipient of the Outstanding Graduates of Dalian, China (Top 3%)
• 2024.12: 🎉 The 2024 National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program project I led received the National-Level Outstanding Project Completion award with the highest score (96.25/100) !
• 2024.12: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ^{IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics} (SCI Q1, CCF B)
• 2024.11: 🎉 The recipient of the COSCO SHIPPING Technology Innovation Pacesetter(Top 0.030%)
• 2024.11: 🎉 The recipient of the Xiaomi Scholarship (Top 0.119%)
• 2024.09: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ^{Applied Ocean Research} (SCI Q1)
• 2024.09: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ^{IEEE Sensors Journal} (SCI Q1)
• 2024.02: 🎉 One paper has passed the first round of review for IJCAI 2024
• 2023.03: 🎉 I join the TSMC Intelligent Software Engineering Laboratory and DUT Artificial Intelligence Institute as a research assistant!

📝 Publications

*: Corresponding author.
†: These authors contributed equally to this work.
‡: Project Leader.

🦾 LLM

🧠 Foundation Model Architecture

Arxiv 2026

Gated Slot Attention-2: Two-Sided Associative Memory Correction in Linear Attention
Ruijie Li, Shengnan Ding, Weimin Zhang^*, Derick Tang^*, Zhanpeng Zeng, Qinsong Zeng, Ming Chen, Jiaxi Hu^*, Yuxuan Liang^*

Arxiv 2026

PHBA: Prefix-State Hybrid Block Attention
Ruijie Li, Jiaxi Hu^*, Shiyu Wang^*, Yuxuan Liang^*

🤖 Agents

EMNLP 2026 Oral, Aug. 2026

Perceive to Hypothesize, Verify to Ground: An Agentic Reasoning Framework for Open-World Geo-Localization
Yutian Jiang^†, Ruijie Li^†, Sisuo Lyu^†, Xixuan Hao, Qingxiang Liu, Yongzi Yu, Yuxuan Liang^*

Arxiv 2026

SpecAct: Speculative Tool Execution for Efficient Multimodal Agents
Shaokun Liu, Yansong Sun, Ruijie Li, Jiarui Tu, Huangxun Chen^*

🔎 Interpretability

Arxiv 2026

ReNA: Detecting Contextual Hallucinations in RAG via Reference-Contrast Neuron Atlas
Qirong Guo, Ruijie Li, Weihang Ding, Xiaqiang Tang, Zeyan Li, Sihong Xie^*

🔬 AI4S

🧬 Bioinformatics

IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Jan. 2025

MHMDA: “Similarity-Association-Similarity” Metapaths and Heterogeneous-Hyper Network for MiRNA-Disease Association Prediction
Ruijie Li, Qiao Ning^*, Yaomiao Zhao, Shikai Guo, Hui Li

IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Oct. 2026

SOC-DGL: Social Interaction Behavior Inspired Dual Graph Learning Framework for Drug-Target Interaction Identification
Xiang Zhao^†, Ruijie Li^†, Qiao Ning^*, Shikai Guo^*, Hui Li, Qian Ma

BIBM 2026 Oral, Sep. 2026

A HyperGraphMamba-Based Multichannel Adaptive Model for ncRNA Classification
Xin An^†, Ruijie Li^†, Qiao Ning^*, Hui Li, Qian Ma, Shikai Guo

IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 2025

A Multi-view Divergence-Convergence Feature Augmentation Framework for Drug-related Microbes Prediction
Xin An^†, Ruijie Li^†, Qiao Ning^*, Shikai Guo, Hui Li, Qian Ma

IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Mar. 2026

Molecular-driven Multi-view Hypergraph Contrastive Learning for Drug-drug Interaction Prediction
Xinyu Li^†, Ruijie Li^†, Qiao Ning^*, Shikai Guo, Hui Li, Qian Ma

IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Jul. 2025

Cross Attention and Intra-layer Attention in Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Drug–Target Interaction Prediction
Kuiyang Che, Qiao Ning^*, Ruijie Li, Xirun Wei, Hui Li, Shikai Guo

🚗 AI4Transportation

IEEE Sensors Journal, Sep. 2024

YOLO-SGC: A Dangerous Driving Behavior Detection Method With Multiscale Spatial-Channel Feature Aggregation
Ruijie Li, Changdong Yu^*, Xiangrong Qin, Xin An, Jinpeng Zhao, Wenhui Chuai, et al.

🏀 AI4Sports

KDD 2027

HydraNet: Momentum-Driven State Space Duality for Multi-Grained Tennis Tournaments Analysis
Ruijie Li, Xiang Zhao, Qiao Ning^*, Shikai Guo

💾 AI4EDA

Arxiv 2026

CIRCUITGATE: LOGIC-CONSISTENT CIRCUIT-LEVEL FUNCTIONAL MODELING FOR AND-INVERTER GRAPHS
Qifan Zhang^†, Ruijie Li^†, Fangzhou Zhang, Qian Ma^*, Hui Li, Furui Zhan, Yongpeng Weng, Li-Ying Hao, Shikai Guo

⚖️ AI4LAW

Arxiv 2026

JudgmentLens: Human-AI Sensemaking of Complex Legal Judgments
Xinyi Chen^†, Ruijie Li^†, Yuelu Li, Chen Liang^*

📷 Computer Vision

Arxiv 2026

Conditional Polarization Guidance for Camouflaged Object Detection
Qifan Zhang, Hao Wang^*, Xiangrong Qin, Ruijie Li^‡

Arxiv 2026

FFMT: Frequency-Factorized Multi-Rate Tokenization For Music-to-Dance Generation
Qirong Guo^†, Ruijie Li^†, Zeyan Li, Sicheng Shu, Guanzhi Ding, Weihang Ding

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2025.09 - 2027.10 Postgraduate Studentship (PGS) Award (CNY10,000/month)
• 2025.07 National “Role Model of the Times” Qu Jianwu Scholarship (Only 9 student selected across Undergraduate/Master/PhD, Top 0.027%)
• 2025.05 DMU Youth May Fourth Medal “Star of Technological Innovation” (Only 1 student selected across Undergraduate/Master/PhD, Top 0.003%)
• 2025.04 Outstanding Graduates of Dalian, China (Top 3%)
• 2024.11 COSCO SHIPPING Technology Innovation Pacesetter(Only 10 students selected across Undergraduate/Master/PhD, Top 0.030%)
• 2024.11 Xiaomi Scholarship (Only 40 students selected across Undergraduate/Master/PhD, Top 0.119%)
• 2024.11 Merit Student (Undergraduate Top 3%)
• 2024.11 EQ Scholarship, Social Practice Category (Undergraduate Top 1%)
• 2024.11 Individual Scholarship, Competition Category (Undergraduate)
• 2024.11 Individual Scholarship, Academic Progress Category (Undergraduate)
• 2023.11 EQ Scholarship, Technological Innovation Category (Undergraduate Top 1%)
• 2023.11 Outstanding Student Scholarship (Undergraduate Top 15%)
• 2023.11 Individual Scholarship, Academic Progress Category (Undergraduate)
• 2022.11 EQ Scholarship, Technological Innovation Category (Undergraduate Top 3%)
• 2022.11 Outstanding Student Scholarship (Undergraduate Top 15%)

📖 Educations

• 2025.09 - 2027.10, MPhil, DSA thrust, Information Hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GuangZhou), Guangzhou.
• 2021.09 - 2025.06, Undergraduate, CS, School of Information Science And Technology, Dalian Maritime Univeristy, Dalian.
• 2018.09 - 2021.06, Xiamen No.6 High School, Xiamen.

💬 Invited Talks

• None

💻 Internships

• 2026.07 - present, Research Intern - LLM Efficient Architecture, WXG, Tencent.
• 2026.01 - 2026.04, Research Intern - LLM Efficient Architecture, Data, ByteDance.
• 2023.03 - 2025.06, Part-time Research Assistant, TSMC Intelligent Software Engineering Laboratory and DUT Artificial Intelligence Institute.