About Me
Hi there👋, I am currently a master student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Benyou Wang. I am also profoundly grateful to my former mentor, Prof. Dayan Guan, who guided me into research journey.
My research interests include Science for next-gen AI (architectures, algorithms), AI4Science (especially AI4Chemistry and AI4Materials), Multimodal-LLMs. I am also interested in building robots/agents for automated scientific exploration.
You can find my full CV here: 📄.
🔥 News
- 2025.08: 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2025 Findings!
📝 Publications
Can Multimodal LLMs See Materials Clearly? A Multimodal Benchmark on Materials Characterization |
Zhengzhao Lai, Youbin Zheng, Zhenyang Cai, Haonan Lyu, Jingpu Yang, Hongqing Liang, Yan Hu, Benyou Wang
“MatCha is the first benchmark for materials characterization image understanding featuring the evaluation of multimodal large language models in real-world scientific scenarios.”
🎨 Portfolio
Something novel and cool, which makes up a part of me 😊
Large Language Models for Chemistry and Molecule
Leveraged LLMs for chemical reaction prediction and molecular property estimation.
August, 2024 ~ December, 2024
[CODE]
In-Context Learning Enhanced Molecule Property Prediction via LLMs
Improved the performance of LLMs in molecule property prediction task by in-context learning.
July, 2024 ~ August, 2024
[CODE]
Joined the team to build combat robots for the National RoboMaster Competition, achieving national third prize.
June, 2022 ~ January, 2024
Intelligent Robot Dog Inspection Competition
Controlled Unitree’s Go1 robot dog to autonomously walk along a traction course and detect targets along the way.
March, 2023 ~ July, 2023
🎖 Honors and Awards
Scholarship:
- Third-class Scholarship (Top 25%)
Competition:
- 2024.08 🥉 National Third Prize — 23rd National RoboMaster Competition.
- 2023.12 🥈 National Second Prize — 5th National Campus AI Algorithm Elite Competition.
- 2023.08 🥉 National Third Prize — 22nd National RoboMaster Competition.
🎓 Educations
- 2025.09 - Now, Master Student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
- 2021.09 - 2025.06, Undergraduate, Northeastern University, China.
💻 Internships
- 2024.01 - 2024.02, Shenyang YaTrans, China.