Peining Zhang

Computer Science Ph.D. student, University of Connecticut

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Email: peining.zhang@uconn.edu [CV]

I am a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science and Engineering department of the University of Connecticut, advised by Prof. Jinbo Bi.

From 2021 to 2023, I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Kuaishou Co. in the group of personalized ads marketing.

Before that, I obtained a master’s degree of science in computer science from Rutgers University in 2021. I received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), advised by Prof. Linli Xu.

Throughout my bachelor’s and master’s time, my research lay in generative models in NLP. Then in my work, I gained practical experience in data mining and recommendation systems.

Currently, my research focus is on 3D generative models and drug discovery.

selected publications

  1. VEDA: 3D Molecular Generation via Variance-Exploding Diffusion with Annealing
    Peining Zhang, Jinbo Bi, and Minghu Song
    In The Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), 2026
    Oral