☀️About Me

This is Hongzhan Lin (林鸿展 in Chinese), a PhD candidate in NLP group at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), advised by Prof. Jing Ma. I also visited NExT++ research centre at National University of Singapore (NUS), working under the guidance of Prof. Tat-Seng Chua from 2024 to 2025. Before, I obtained both of my Bachelor and Master degrees from PRIS lab at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2019 and 2022 respectively, advised by Prof. Guang Chen. Early on I was working as an NLP research intern in Tencent AI Lab.

My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Reasoning, and Social Computing, etc. I am open for possible collaborations. For those who are interested in working with me, please feel free to email me. Remote collaboration is also welcome!

📚Academic Appointments

• PhD in Department of Computer Science, HKBU, Hong Kong [2022 - Present]
• Visiting Scholar in School of Computing, NUS, Singapore [2024 - 2025]
• Master in School of Artiticial Intelligence, BUPT, Beijing [2019 - 2022]

📑Selected Publications

• “Towards Explainable Harmful Meme Detection through Multimodal Debate between Large Language Models”, WWW 2024 (Oral). [Paper]
• “Zero-Shot Rumor Detection with Propagation Structure via Prompt Learning”, AAAI 2023. [Paper]
• “Detect Rumors in Microblog Posts for Low-Resource Domains via Adversarial Contrastive Learning”, NAACL 2022 (Findings). [Paper]
• “Rumor Detection on Twitter with Claim-Guided Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks”, EMNLP 2021. [Paper]

💁‍♂️Professional Services

• Conference Area Chair: ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS
• Conference Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP, WWW, ICLR, NAACL, COLING, IJCAI, ECAI
• Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, TKDE, TCSS, TALLIP, JAIR, EAAI