Dawei Zhou

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Joined

October 2018

Names

Dawei Zhou (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@illinois.edu (Confirmed)

****@vt.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (vt.edu)

2021 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Jiawei Han

Present

Expertise

Deep Learning

Present

Graph Mining

Present

Rare Category Analysis

Present

Publications

MATRIX: Stress-Testing LLM Reasoning in Materials Science
Junkai Zhang, Jingru Gan, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zian Jia, Changquan Gu, Jianpeng Chen, Yanqiao Zhu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Dawei Zhou, Ling Li, Wei Wang
- AI4Mat-ICLR-2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
LinguaMate: Language‑Guided Metamaterial Discovery via Symbolic-Driven Latent Optimization
Jianpeng Chen, Wangzhi Zhan, Dongqi Fu, Junkai Zhang, Zian Jia, Ling Li, Wei Wang, Dawei Zhou
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Novel Metamaterial Discovery via Latent Space Regulation and Exploration
Wangzhi Zhan, Jianpeng Chen, Dongqi Fu, Dawei Zhou
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Seeing Through the Brain: New Insights from Decoding Visual Stimuli with fMRI
Zheng Huang, Enpei Zhang, Weikang Qiu, Yinghao Cai, Carl Yang, Elynn Chen, Xiang Zhang, Rex Ying, Dawei Zhou, Yujun Yan
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
DISPROTBENCH: A Disorder-Aware, Task-Rich Benchmark for Evaluating Protein Structure Prediction in Realistic Biological Contexts
Xinyue Zeng, Tuo Wang, Adithya Kulkarni, Alexander Lu, Alexandra Ni, Phoebe Xing, junhan zhao, Siwei Chen, Dawei Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
HalluGuard: Demystifying Data-Driven and Reasoning-Driven Hallucinations in LLMs
Xinyue Zeng, Junhong Lin, Yujun Yan, Feng Guo, Liang Shi, Jun Wu, Dawei Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
HypRQ-VAE: Long-Tail-Aware Item Indexing for Generative Recommender Systems
Longfeng Wu, Tong Zeng, Giovanni Seni, Zhimin Peng, Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat, Si Zhang, Yao Zhou, Bowen Xu, Lecheng Zheng, Bo Ji, Yujun Yan, Dawei Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MatSciBench: Benchmarking the Reasoning Ability of LLM in Materials Science
Junkai Zhang, Jingru Gan, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zian Jia, Changquan Gu, Jianpeng Chen, Yanqiao Zhu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Dawei Zhou, Ling Li, Wei Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Data Value in the Age of Scaling: Understanding LLM Scaling Dynamics Under Real–Synthetic Data Mixtures
Haohui Wang, Jingyuan Qi, Jianpeng Chen, Jun Wu, Lifu Huang, Lecheng Zheng, Kevin Choi, Balaji Veeramani, Edward Bowen, Alison Hu, Tyler Cody, Dawei Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
PDMBench: A Standardized Platform for Predictive Maintenance Research
Shuaicheng Zhang, Tuo Wang, Adithya Kulkarni, Stephen Adams, Sanmitra Bhattacharya, Sunil Reddy Tiyyagura, Edward Bowen, Balaji Veeramani, Dawei Zhou
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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