contact
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lzc ατ fzu.edu.cn
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Office & Lab
Room 101, Building No. 3, College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Minhou, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Research / Data Intelligence
Zhichen Lai 赖志宸
aboutBiography
profile
Born in Fuzhou, China, I returned home at the end of 2025 after several years of study and research in Denmark. I’m now an Associate Research Professor at Fuzhou University’s College of Computer and Data Science, where I lead the Data Intelligence and Interdisciplinary Information Group. I’m also a member of the Fujian Key Laboratory of Network Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, mentored by Professor Xing Chen. My research is supported by the MOE National Overseas Talent Recruitment Program （教育部国家海外引才专项） and the NSFC Young Scientists Fund, Category C （国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目（C 类））.
research
I work on time series and spatio-temporal data, developing efficient methods for learning from incomplete, interconnected, and evolving data. I’m also interested in GeoAI and AI for science and health.
education
I earned my B.S. from UESTC in 2018 and my M.S. from Sichuan University in 2021, advised by Professor Jiancheng Lv. I then moved to Denmark for my Ph.D. at Aalborg University, which I completed in early 2025 under the supervision of Professors Christian S. Jensen (Member of Academia Europaea; ACM/IEEE Fellow), Dalin Zhang, and Huan Li. I also worked as a Research Fellow with Professor Hua Lu.
visits
During my Ph.D., I also spent time at NTNU with Professor Xu Cheng, and at UNSW Sydney with Professors Lina Yao and Dong Gong.
publications6 records
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IEEE TKDE 2026
CCF-A
CAS Q1
JCR Q1
Impute On-Demand: Adaptive Correlated Time Series Imputation for Changing Environments
01
AAAI 2026
Oral (Top 1.2%)
CCF-A
MovSemCL: Movement-Semantics Contrastive Learning for Trajectory Similarity
02
IEEE TKDE 2025
CCF-A
CAS Q1
JCR Q1
Lightweight Correlated Time Series Forecasting Enhanced with Model Distillation
04
WWW 2024
Oral (Top 9.4%)
CCF-A
E2USD: Efficient-yet-effective Unsupervised State Detection for Multivariate Time Series
05
SIGMOD 2023
Oral
CCF-A
LightCTS: A Lightweight Framework for Correlated Time Series Forecasting
projects5 records
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MOE
Talent Program
Ministry of Education's National Overseas Talent Recruitment Program
2026–2029
01
NSFC
Category C
National Natural Science Foundation of China — Young Scientists Fund (Category C)
2027–2029
02
Fujian
Category C
Fujian Provincial High-Level Talent Program (Category C)
2026
03
FZU
Overseas Talent
Qishan Scholar Program (Overseas Talent Introduction), Fuzhou University
2029–2034
04
ZJU
Open Research Grant
Open Research Grant, State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University
experience7 records
Ph.D. in Computer Science · Research Fellow
Advised by Professors Christian S. Jensen, Dalin Zhang, and Huan Li
Research Fellow with Professor Hua Lu
Research Fellow with Professor Hua Lu
Junior Visiting Research Fellow
recruitmentProspective Students
2027 Master's Admissions · 4 positions remainingContact me
I welcome prospective master's students and first- or second-year undergraduates interested in research.
Bring curiosity and solid programming skills; expect close guidance and a supportive research environment.
To get in touch, email me your CV and research interests.