Tianfan Fu

Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University

Joined

January 2017

Names

Tianfan Fu

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Career & Education History

Associate Professor

State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University (nju.edu.cn)

2024 – Present

Assistant Professor

CS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (rpi.edu)

2024 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Kexin Huang

2020 – Present

PhD Advisor

Jimeng Sun

2018 – Present

Coauthor

Cao Xiao

2018 – Present

Master Advisor

Zhihua Zhang

2015 – 2018

Expertise

Bayesian learning

2015 – 2017

Speech

2013 – 2016

Publications

Machine Learning for Synthetic Data Generation: a Review
Yingzhou Lu, Lulu Chen, Yuanyuan Zhang, Minjie Shen, Huazheng Wang, Xiao Wang, Capucine van Rechem, Tianfan Fu, Wenqi Wei
- arXiv
- Readers: Everyone
PoseX: AI Defeats Physics-based Methods on Protein Ligand Cross-Docking
Yize Jiang, Xinze Li, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jin Han, Youjun Xu, Ayush Pandit, ZAIXI ZHANG, Mengdi Wang, Mengyang Wang, Chong Liu, Guang Yang, Yejin Choi, Yingzhou Lu, Wu-Jun Li, Tianfan Fu, Fang Wu, Junhong Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
RadDiff: Retrieval-Augmented Denoising Diffusion for Protein Inverse Folding
Jin Han, Tianfan Fu, Wu-Jun Li
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
RiboPO: Preference Optimization for Structure- and Stability-Aware RNA Design
Minghao Sun, Hanqun Cao, Zhou Zhang, Chen Wei, Liang Wang, Tianrui Jia, Zhiyuan Liu, Tianfan Fu, Xiangru Tang, Yejin Choi, Pheng-Ann Heng, Fang Wu, Yang Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Reasoning BO: Enhancing Bayesian Optimization with the Long-Context Reasoning Power of LLMs
Zhuo Yang, Daolang Wang, Lingli Ge, Beilun Wang, Tianfan Fu, Yuqiang Li
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
SpectrumWorld: Artificial Intelligence Foundation for Spectroscopy
Zhuo Yang, Jiaqing Xie, Shuaike Shen, Daolang Wang, Yeyun Chen, Ben Gao, Shuzhou Sun, Biqing Qi, Dongzhan Zhou, LEI BAI, Linjiang Chen, Shufei Zhang, Qinying Gu, Jun Jiang, Tianfan Fu, Yuqiang Li
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
MolSpectLLM: A Molecular Foundation Model Bridging Spectroscopy, Molecule Elucidation, and 3D Structure Generation
Shuaike Shen, Jiaqing Xie, Zhuo Yang, Antong Zhang, Shuzhou Sun, Ben Gao, Tianfan Fu, Biqing Qi, Yuqiang Li
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
From Supervision to Exploration: What Does Protein Language Model Learn During Reinforcement Learning?
Hanqun Cao, Hongrui Zhang, Junde Xu, Zhou Zhang, Lingdong Shen, Minghao Sun, Ge Liu, Jinbo Xu, Wu-Jun Li, Jinren Ni, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Tianfan Fu, Yejin Choi, Pheng-Ann Heng, Fang Wu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Chem-R: Learning to Reason as a Chemist
Weida Wang, Benteng Chen, Di Zhang, Wanhao Liu, Shuchen Pu, Ben Gao, Jin Zeng, LEI BAI, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaoyong Wei, Tianshu Yu, Tianfan Fu, Shuzhou Sun, Jiatong LI, Zifu Wang, Yuqiang Li, Shufei Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Affinity: A Benchmark of 1D, 2D, and 3D Methods Reveals Critical Trade-offs in Structure-Based Drug Design
Kangyu Zheng, Kai Zhang, Jiale Tan, Xuehan Chen, Yingzhou Lu, ZAIXI ZHANG, Lichao Sun, Marinka Zitnik, Tianfan Fu, Zhiding Liang
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone

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