About Me
Here is Songning Lai (赖颂宁).( You can call me Sony. )
I am a junior student studying in the School of Information Science and Engineering(Chongxin College), Shandong University in China,supervised by Prof. Zhi Liu. I am also an incoming PhD student at HKUST@AI Thrust&INFO Hub, supervised by Prof. Yutao Yue.
Research Interests
My research interests are Explainable AI (XAI) and Privacy-preserving AI. Specifically, my research goal is to build faithful XAI systems which are easily understood by users and are robust in various environments (e.g. XAI4LLM, XAI4NLP, XAI4MM, XAI4CV, XAI4Security and so on). I am also interested in applying the XAI to real-world scenarios (e.g. optical systems, recommender systems, and traffic forecasting etc.). At the same time, I am also very interested in the research of AI in the field of astronomy, environmental science, materials and medicine.
Prior to this, I have also been exposed to bioinformatics, multimodal sentiment analysis, domain generalization and other research areas.
If you are interested in any aspect of me, I would love to chat and collaborate, please email me at - sonly[at]mail[dot]sdu[dot]edu[dot]cn.
Academic Background
- Feb 2025 - Future： Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (Incoming AI Phd, supervised by Prof. Yutao Yue)
- Apr 2024 - Feb 2025: HKUST(GZ) (RA)
- Apr 2023 - Mar 2024: KAUST (Visiting Student)
- Sep 2020 - June 2024: Shandong University (BSc, EECS)
News and Update
- July 2024 : Our paper on Time Series was accepted by IJCAI 2024 workshop(CCF A).
- Jun 2024 : Our paper on Community Detection was accepted by Neurocomputing(JCR Q1; CCF C).
- Mar 2024 : I am awarded the honor of excellent graduate of Shandong Province and excellent graduate of Shandong University.
- Mar 2024 : Our paper on MSA was accepted by IJCNN2024(CCF C).
- Jan 2024 : Our paper on faithful label free CBM was accepted by ICLR 2024(CCF None).
- Oct 2023 : A work was accepted by the journal Displays (JCR Q1).
- Oct 2023 : A work was accepted by the journal Image and Vison Computing (JCR Q1; CCF C).
- Nov 2022 : Get the First Prize in Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling National (top 0.6%).
- Nov 2022 : I am very glad to give an oral report at the international conference CISP-BMEI 2022 and win the Best Paper Award.