Ziwen (Aaron) Li

I am an incoming CS Ph.D. student in PEACH Lab at Northeastern University advised by Prof. Tianshi Li. Before that, I am expected to receive my master's degree at UCLA, advised by Prof. Xiang 'Anthony' Chen and Prof. Eunice Jun in UCLA HCI. I received a joint B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and University of Glasgow (UoG) in 2023, where I was advised by Prof. Yi Zhang.

Research: My current research interests include Privacy-preserving NLP , aiming to develop robust and trustworthy systems and algorithms that safeguard human privacy within language-based applications and interactions.

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🔥Latest News
  • 2025.03 Excited to share that I will be joining PEACH Lab at Northeastern Universisty CS for my PhD!
  • 2025.02 Happy to be invited as a reviewer in CHI 2025 LBW.
  • 2025.02 Our paper GraPPI got accepted to Findings of NAACL 2025 🎉
📝Publications

GraPPI: A Retrieve-Divide-Solve GraphRAG Framework for Large-scale Protein-protein Interaction Exploration
Ziwen Li, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Youngseung Jeon
NAACL 2025 Findings   [ Paper | Github ]
Decoupling Identification of Nonlinear Two-input Two-output Deterministic Systems based on Adaptive Regression and Causal Decomposition
Yi Zhang, Jinli Chen, Zhirong Liu, Mingjun Xie, Zewen Dong, Mian Wu, Ziwen Li, Hailou Jin, Chanyin Yi, Siyu Xie, Steven Su, Peng Xu, Dezhong Yao
Under review of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Matlab Open Source Code: Noise-assisted Multivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition based Causal Decomposition for Causality Inference of Bivariate Time Series
Yi Zhang*, Guan Wang*, Ziwen Li* (equal contribution), Mingjun Xie, Branko Celler, Steven Su, Peng Xu, Dezhong Yao
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (2022)   [ Paper | Github ]
📖Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, UCLA ECE 102, Systems and Signals, Fall 2024, with Prof. Jonathan Kao

💻Internship

  • Jun. 2022 -Oct. 2022, Tongling Branch of China Telecom

🖋️Service

Shout out to the concise webpage template by Jon Barron.

Last updated: April 22, 2025