Jeff Z. Pan

Full Professor, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh

Joined

July 2019

Names

Jeff Z. Pan

Emails

****@ed.ac.uk (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)

2020 – Present

Associate Professor

University of Aberdeen (abdn.ac.uk)

2005 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Machine Learning

2013 – Present

NLP

2013 – Present

Knowledge Graph

2012 – Present

Ontology

2000 – Present

Publications

Prompting large language models with knowledge graphs for question answering involving long-tail facts
Wenyu Huang, Guancheng Zhou, Mirella Lapata, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Sebastien Montella, Jeff Z. Pan
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- Readers: Everyone
Retrieval Augmented Generation with Rich Answer Encoding
Wenyu Huang, Mirella Lapata, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Nikos Papasarantopoulos, Jeff Z. Pan
- IJCNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Masking in Multi-hop QA: An Analysis of How Language Models Perform with Context Permutation
Wenyu Huang, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Mirella Lapata, Jeff Z. Pan
- ACL 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Less is More: Making Smaller Language Models Competent Subgraph Retrievers for Multi-hop KGQA
Wenyu Huang, Guancheng Zhou, Hongru WANG, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Mirella Lapata, Jeff Z. Pan
- EMNLP 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Illusions of Confidence? Diagnosing LLM Truthfulness via Neighborhood Consistency
Haoming Xu, Ningyuan Zhao, Yunzhi Yao, Weihong Xu, Hongru WANG, Xinle Deng, Shumin Deng, Jeff Z. Pan, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Dissecting Implicit Chain of Thought: Can Transformers Learn It Spontaneously?
Juncai Li, Ru Li, Yuxiang Zhou, Jeff Z. Pan
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
SRA-SD: A Lightweight Framework for Structure-Guided Compositional Image Synthesis
Yajing Xu, Jiaoyan Chen, Zhiqiang Liu, Yichi Zhang, Yarong Lan, Jeff Z. Pan, Lei Liang, Wen Zhang, Huajun Chen
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Memory-T1: Reinforcement Learning for Temporal Reasoning in Multi-session Agents
Yiming Du, Baojun Wang, Yifan Xiang, Zhaowei Wang, Wenyu Huang, Boyang XUE, Bin Liang, Xingshan Zeng, Fei Mi, Haoli Bai, Lifeng Shang, Jeff Z. Pan, Yuxin Jiang, Kam-Fai Wong
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Are General-Purpose LLMs Ready for Planning? A Large- Scale Evaluation in PDDL
Kaustubh Vyas, Damien Graux, Sebastien Montella, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Jeff Z. Pan
- XLLM-Reason-Plan
- Readers: Everyone
ReSearch: Learning to Reason with Search for LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Mingyang Chen, Linzhuang Sun, Tianpeng Li, sunhaoze, ZhouYijie, Chenzheng Zhu, Haofen Wang, Jeff Z. Pan, Wen Zhang, Huajun Chen, Fan Yang, Zenan Zhou, Weipeng Chen
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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