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Zhichen Lai 赖志宸

Research Associate Professor
College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, China 福州大学计算机与大数据学院
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Dr. Zhichen Lai (赖志宸) is a Research Associate Professor at the College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, China. He is also affiliated with the Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Computing and Intelligent Information Processing and was selected for the China’s Ministry-Level Overseas Talent Introduction Program(国家海外引才专项) in 2025.

Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Prof. Hua Lu. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Aalborg University in 2025, advised by Prof. Christian S. Jensen (ACM/IEEE Fellow, MAE), Prof. Dalin Zhang (张大林教授), and Prof. Huan Li (李环教授). During his doctoral studies, he served as a Junior Visiting Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney. Earlier, he received his M.S. in Computer Science from Sichuan University in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Jiancheng Lv (吕建成教授), and his B.S. in Computer Science from UESTC in 2018.

His research interests include:

Selected First-author Publications

  1. Lai, Z. et al. MovSemCL: Movement-Semantics Contrastive Learning for Trajectory Similarity. AAAI 2026 (Oral, CCF-A).

  2. Lai, Z. et al. Lightweight Correlated Time Series Forecasting Enhanced with Model Distillation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2024 (CCF-A, CAS Q1, JCR Q1).

  3. Lai, Z. et al. ReCTSi: Resource-efficient Correlated Time Series Imputation via Decoupled Pattern Learning and Completeness-aware Attentions. SIGKDD 2024 (Oral, CCF-A).

  4. Lai, Z. et al. E2USD: Efficient-yet-effective Unsupervised State Detection for Multivariate Time Series. WWW 2024 (Oral, CCF-A).

  5. Lai, Z. et al. LightCTS: A Lightweight Framework for Correlated Time Series Forecasting. SIGMOD 2023 (Oral, CCF-A).

For more publications, please refer here.

Service

Reviewer/PC Member