Zirui He

About Me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), jointly advised by Dr. Mengnan Du and Dr. Yingcong Li. My current research focuses on interpretability for large language models (LLMs). Before joining NJIT, I received my M.S. degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and my B.S. degree in Computer Science from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan.

Research Interests

Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, Interpretability, Reasoning and Memorization

News

• [Jun. 2026] One paper is accepted to ECML-PKDD 2026.
• [Apr. 2026] One paper is accepted to ACL 2026 Findings.
• [Feb. 2026] We released a new preprint, Rep2Text: Decoding Full Text from a Single LLM Token Representation.
• [Nov. 2025] I passed my qualify exam and became a PhD Candidate.
• [Oct. 2025] Invited Talk @NJIT Data Sciences Seminar: Representation Space of LLMs.
• [Aug. 2025] One paper is accepted to EMNLP 2025.
• [May. 2024] One paper is accepted to COLING 2024.

Publications

Teaching

• Deep Learning (DS677), Spring 2026, NJIT, Teaching Assistant
• Machine Learning (DS675), Fall 2025, NJIT, Teaching Assistant
• Natural Language Processing (DS680), Spring 2025, NJIT, Teaching Assistant

Services

Conference Reviewers

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2026
• Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026
• Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Neurips) 2026
• European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) - Research Track 2026

Journal Reviewers

• Applied AI Letters (AIL)
• Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

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