I am pursuing a Ph.D. at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Prof. Dongrui Wu. My research interests focus on Brain–Computer Interface, Smart Healthcare, World Model, and Machine Learning.
I was selected for the Youth Student Fundamental Research Project from NSFC (国家自然科学基金博士生项目入选者) and the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program-Doctoral Student Special Plan from CAST (中国科协青年人才培育工程-博士生专项入选者), with a total funding of 340,000 RMB (~ 48,000 USD).
BCI & EEG
Machine Learning
Smart Healthcare
Data Generation
Foundation Model
- Publications: To date, I have published 8 first-author papers—5 in CAS Q1/Top journals (e.g., National Science Review, IF=17.1), 7 co-authored papers (CAA Class-A), and hold 5 PRC national invention patents.
- Honors: National Scholarship×3 (2 for PhD); Ant Group InTech Scholarship (1 of 10 worldwide); IEEE CIS Scholarship (1 of 5 worldwide); Merit student Pacesetter (Highest Student Honor at HUST); Outstanding Graduate of Hunan Province; Huanao Top-10 BCI Highlights in China; World Robot Contest–BCI National First & Second Prizes.
- Service: Long-standing reviewer for leading journals and conferences (IEEE TFS, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TNSRE, IEEE TBIOM, JNE, Scientific Reports, ICONIP 2024, ICONIP 2025, IEEE SMC 2022); recognized as IOP Trusted Reviewer.
News
- 12 / 2025: Poster at SAAC 2025; Wuhan, China.
- 12 / 2025: I was supported by the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program-Doctoral Student Special Plan by CAST (中国科协青年人才培育工程-博士生专项), which is a grant of 40,000 RMB (~ 5,600 USD).
- 12 / 2025: I was supported by the Youth Student Fundamental Research Project from NSFC (国家自然科学基金博士生项目), which is a grant of 300,000 RMB (~ 42,500 USD).
- 10 / 2025: Awarded National Scholarship (PhD).
- 10 / 2025: Awarded Merit student Pacesetter (Highest Student Honor at HUST). Media coverage, Media coverage
- 10 / 2025: Awarded the reviewer certificate by Springer Nature.
- 10 / 2025: DBConformer has been accepted by the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (CAS Q1/Top, JCR Q1, IF=6.8).
- 10 / 2025: MVCNet has been accepted by the Knowledge-Based Systems (CAS Q1/Top, JCR Q1, IF=7.3).
- 09 / 2025: Awarded Ant Group InTech Scholarship (1 of 10 Worldwide; 2 in Digital Medicine). Zhejiang Daily, Ant Group, Media coverage
- 08 / 2025: National Second Prize in World Robot Contest—Brain Controlled Robot Contest.
- 05 / 2025: Oral at China Systems Science Conference 2025; Kunming, China.
- 03 / 2025: CST has been accepted by the National Science Review (IF=17.1). EurekAlert, Media coverage
- 02 / 2025: CSDA has been accepted by the Knowledge-Based Systems (CAS Q1/Top, JCR Q1, IF=7.3).
- 12 / 2024: Awarded IOP Trusted Reviewer.
- 12 / 2024: Poster at First China Brain–Computer Intelligence Conference; Hangzhou, China.
- 12 / 2024: Poster at SAAC 2024; Wuhan, China.
- 10 / 2024: Awarded National Scholarship (PhD).
- 09 / 2024: Oral at Alibaba Cloud Yunqi Conference (AI for Science showcase); Hangzhou, China. Media coverage
- 08 / 2024: Awarded Huanao Top-10 BCI Highlights in China.
- 04 / 2024: CR has been accepted by the Neural Networks (CAS Q1/Top, JCR Q1, IF=6.3).
- 11 / 2023: ICONIP Tutorial: Transfer Learning for EEG-based Brain–Computer Interfaces; Changsha, China.
- 10 / 2023: TASA-SDS has been accepted by the Journal of Neural Engineering (CAA A, Top journal in BCI).
- 08 / 2023: National First Prize in World Robot Contest—Brain Controlled Robot Contest.
- 03 / 2022: Awarded IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Scholarship (1 of 5 Worldwide).
- 09 / 2021: National Second Prize in World Robot Contest—Brain Controlled Robot Contest.
- 05 / 2021: Awarded Outstanding Graduate of Hunan Province (TOP 1%).
- 05 / 2021: Awarded Outstanding Graduate in Central South University.
- 12 / 2020: Awarded National Scholarship (Undergraduate).
- 12 / 2020: Awarded Special Scholarship (Highest Scholarship at CSU).
Publications
NSR 2025
Canine EEG helps human: Cross-species and cross-modality epileptic seizure detection via multi-space alignment
Z. Wang, S. Li, D. Wu*, National Science Review, vol.12, no.6, p. nwaf086, 2025. (CAS Q1 Top journal)
IEEE JBHI 2025
Neural Networks 2024
Channel reflection: Knowledge-driven data augmentation for EEG-based BCIs
Z. Wang†, S. Li†, J. Luo, J. Liu, and D. Wu*, Neural Networks, vol.176, p.106351, 2024. (CAS Q1 Top journal)
KBS 2025
KBS 2025
JNE 2023
IEEE CIS 2022
CSSC 2025
Cross-species and cross-modality epileptic seizure detection via multi-space alignment
Z. Wang, S. Li, D. Wu*, China Systems Science Conference (CSSC), Oral, 2025.5.16-2025.5.18, Kunming, China. (First author; CAA C-class conference)
IEEE CIM 2025
Black-Box Test-Time Ensemble
S. Li, Z. Wang, C. Liu, and D. Wu*, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, early access, 2025. (JCR Q1 journal)
IEEE TNSRE 2024
IEEE TBME 2023
IEEE TNSRE 2022
Multi-source decentralized transfer for privacy-preserving BCIs
W. Zhang, Z. Wang, and D. Wu*, IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 30, pp. 2710-2720, 2022. (CAS Q1 journal)
IEEE TBME 2023
IEEE TBME 2025
Spatial Distillation based Distribution Alignment (SDDA) for Cross-Headset EEG Classification
D. Liu, S. Li, Z. Wang, W. Li, and D. Wu*, *IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, early access, 2025. (CAA A-class journal)
JNE 2025
Honors and Awards
- 09 / 2025 Ant Group InTech Scholarship (10 Awardees Worldwide; 2 in Digital Medicine); Ant Group / Ant Science and Technology Award
- 10 / 2025 National Scholarship (PhD); Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
- 10 / 2024 National Scholarship (PhD); Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
- 10 / 2025 Merit student Pacesetter (Highest Student Honor at HUST); Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- 12 / 2020 National Scholarship (Undergraduate); Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
- 05 / 2021 Outstanding Graduate of Hunan Province; Hunan Provincial Department of Education
- 02 / 2022 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Scholarship (5 Awardees Worldwide); IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- 08 / 2023 National First Prize in World Robot Contest — BCI; Chinese Institute of Electronics
- 08 / 2024 Huanao Top-10 BCI Highlights in China; Haihe Laboratory of BCI & HMI (provincial–ministerial joint platform)
- 08 / 2025 National Second Prize in World Robot Contest — BCI; Chinese Institute of Electronics
- 09 / 2021 National Second Prize in World Robot Contest — BCI; Chinese Institute of Electronics
- 12 / 2024 IOP Trusted Reviewer; Institute of Physics (IOP Publishing)
- 05 / 2021 Outstanding Graduate; Central South University
- 12 / 2020 Special Scholarship (Top Award); Central South University
Educations
- 09 / 2021 - now, Ph.D. (MS–Ph.D. program), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Intelligent Science & Technology
- 09 / 2017 - 06 / 2021, B.Eng., Central South University, Measurement, Control Technology & Instruments
Invited Talks
- 11 / 2023, ICONIP 2023 — Tutorial: Transfer learning for EEG-based brain–computer interfaces: A tutorial; Changsha, China.
- 05 / 2025, China Systems Science Conference (CSSC) — Oral: Cross-species & cross-modality seizure detection via multi-space alignment; Kunming, China.
- 12 / 2024, First China Brain–Computer Intelligence Conference — Poster: Channel reflection: Knowledge-driven data augmentation for EEG-based BCIs; Hangzhou, China.
- 09 / 2024, Alibaba Cloud Yunqi Conference (AI for Science showcase) — Oral: EEG-based automatic seizure detection; Hangzhou, China.
- 12 / 2024, SAAC 2024 — Poster: Channel reflection: Knowledge-driven data augmentation for EEG-based BCIs; Wuhan, China.
- 12 / 2025, SAAC 2025 — Poster: DBConformer: Dual-Branch Convolutional Transformer for EEG Decoding; Wuhan, China.
Internships
- 10 / 2022 - 04 / 2023, Alibaba Cloud, China.
- Anomaly-aware data augmentation: designing five augmentation operators leveraging N-grams and TF-IDF to augment positive-class samples, increasing data availability and improving the generalization of fault-detection models.
- Long-sequence forecasting with Transformer: Quantified anomaly-feature importance to identify salient/sparse queries, and designed a SparseAttention module to handle long sequences more efficiently.
- Domain-generalized MoE architecture: Addressed substantial temporal and device-level distribution shifts in server-fault data by designing a domain-generalized Mixture-of-Experts model for robust prediction under distribution shift.
- Authorized patent (student first author).