About Me

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Guangdong Institute of Smart Education and a researcher at the AGI Intelligent Media Application Research Center at Jinan University (JNU). Before joining JNU, he received a Ph.D. degree in the College of Computer Science and Technology from Jilin University (JLU), where I was fortunate to have Prof. Yi Chang as my advisor. From 2021 to 2022, I also visited Prof. Jing Ma’s research group at Hong Kong Baptist University. I have published over 20 research articles in top international conferences and journals, and serve as an Area Chair for ACL 2025 and as a peer reviewer for top conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, SIGIR, KDD, etc., and top journals such as TPAMI, TKDE, TNNLS, etc.

My interests include:

• Fact-checking, Fake News detection, Rumor Detection
• Information Extraction
• Knowledge Concept Tagging (AI4ED)
• Large Language Model Reasoning

Contact me via: yangzw[AT]jnu.edu.cn

📝 Publications

* for corresponding authors

• The Imitation Game revisited: A comprehensive survey on recent advances in AI-generated text detection (SCI-I) Cite
  Zhiwei Yang, Zhengjie Feng, Rongxin Huo, Huiru Lin, Hanghan Zheng, Ruichi Nie, Hongrui Chen
  Expert Systems With Applications

• Local-Global Cascaded Ensemble Learning on Hybrid Experts for Knowledge Concept Tagging (Best Paper Candidate)
  Zhiwei Yang, Jiahua Yang, Longtao Wang, Rongxin Huo, Huiru Lin, Yuxuan Zhou, Weiqi Luo
  AIED 2025: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education

• CoTea: Collaborative Teaching for Low-resource Named Entity Recognition with A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy (SCI-I)
  Zhiwei Yang, Jing Ma, Kang Yang, Huiru Lin, Hechang Chen, Ruichao Yang, Yi Chang
  Information Processing & Management

• A Coarse-to-fine Cascaded Evidence-Distillation Neural Network for Explainable Fake News Detection（CCF-B）Star Github
  Zhiwei Yang, Jing Ma, Hechang Chen, Hongzhan Lin, Ziyang Luo, Yi Chang
  COLING 2022：The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, October 2022, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea

• Enhancing Prompting with Deep Understanding and Extended Reasoning for Solving Mathematical Problems Code
  Zhiwei Yang, Rongxin Huo, Jiahua Yang, Longtao Wang, Yuxuan Zhou
  International Conference on Neural Information Processing

• Explainable Fake News Detection With Large Language Model via Defense Among Competing Wisdom (CCF A) Code | Datasets
  Bo Wang, Jing Ma, Hongzhan Lin, Zhiwei Yang, Ruichao Yang, Yuan Tian, Yi Chang
  WWW 2024: The Web Conference 2024, May 2024, Singapore

• Context-aware Attentive Multi-level Feature Fusion for Named Entity Recognition (SCI-I)
  Zhiwei Yang, Jing Ma, Hechang Chen, Jiawei Zhang, Yi Chang
  TNNLS: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

• Uncertainty-Aware Contrastive Learning for Semi-supervised Named Entity Recognition (SCI-I)
  Kang Yang, Zhiwei Yang*, Songwei Zhao, Zhejian Yang, Sinuo Zhang, Hechang Chen
  Knowledge-based System

• HiTRANS: A Hierarchical Transformer Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition (CCF-B)
  Zhiwei Yang, Jing Ma, Hechang Chen, Yunke Zhang and Yi Chang
  EMNLP 2021: The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

• Attention-based Multi-level Feature Fusion for Named Entity Recognition (CCF-A)
  Zhiwei Yang, Hechang Chen, Jiawei Zhang, Jing Ma, Yi Chang
  IJCAI 2020: The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2020. Yokohama, Japan

• WSDMS: Debunk Fake News via Weakly Supervised Detection of Misinforming Sentences with Contextualized Social Wisdom (CCF B)
  Ruichao Yang, Wei Gao, Jing Ma, Hongzhan Lin, Zhiwei Yang
  EMNLP 2023: The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Dec 2023, Singapore

• The Sufficiency of Off-Policyness and Soft Clipping: PPO is still Insufficient according to an Off-Policy Measure. (CCF A)
  Xing Chen, Dongcui Diao, Hechang Chen, Hengshuai Yao, Haiyin Piao, Zhixiao Sun, Zhiwei Yang, Randy Goebel, Bei Jiang, Yi Chang
  AAAI 2023: The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, USA

• Towards low-resource rumor detection: Unified contrastive transfer with propagation structure (SCI-II)
  Hongzhan Lin, Jing Ma, Ruichao Yang, Zhiwei Yang, Mingfei Cheng
  Neurocomputing

• Enhancing the Language Understanding of BERT with Causal Attention Masks (CCF-B)
  Ziyang Luo, Yadong Xi, Jing Ma, Zhiwei Yang, xiaoxi mao, Changjie Fan, Rongsheng Zhang
  NAACL 2022: The 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

• Detect Low-Resource Rumors in Microblog Posts via Adversarial Contrastive Learning (CCF-B)
  Hongzhan Lin, Jing Ma, Liangliang Chen, Zhiwei Yang, Mingfei Cheng, Guang Chen
  NAACL 2022: The 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

• A Hybrid Model for Improving Fact Checking in Product Question Answering (CCF-B)
  Hongzhan Lin, Jing Ma, Liangliang Chen, Zhiwei Yang, Guang Chen
  IJCNN 2022: The IJCNN at IEEE WCCI 2022

• LAM: Lightweight Attention Module
  Qiwei Ji, Bo Yu, Zhiwei Yang*, and Hechang Chen
  KSEM 2022

• Rumor Detection on Twitter with Claim-Guided Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks (CCF-B)
  Hongzhan Lin, Jing Ma, Mingfei Cheng, Zhiwei Yang, Liangliang Chen and Guang Chen
  EMNLP 2021: The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, November 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

• Bringing Order to Episodes: Mining Timeline in Social Media (SCI-II)
  Shang Wang, Zhiwei Yang*, and Yi Chang
  Neurocomputing, 13 April 2021.

• Structure-enhanced Graph Representation Learning for Link Prediction in Signed Networks
  Yunke Zhang, Zhiwei Yang, Bo Yu, Hechang Chen, Yang Li, Xuehua Zhao
  KSEM 2021

📚 Patents

• Zhiwei Yang, et al. A multimodal-based question knowledge concept annotation method and system. ZL202510838812.1
• Zhiwei Yang, et al. Explainable false text detection method, device, storage medium and terminal. ZL202211186100.9
• Zhiwei Yang, et al. Named entity recognition methods, devices, electronic equipments and media. ZL201910952910.2
• Zhiwei Yang, et al. Nested named entity recognition method, device, medium and terminal. ZL202111263910.5
• Guodong Chen, Zhiwei Yang, et al. Real-time virtual online glasses-wearing method and system based on HTML5 and augmented reality technology. ZL201610831992.1

🎖 Honors and Awards

• Second Prize in the 2024 Guangdong Province Artificial Intelligence Industry Association Science and Technology Award
• Gold Medal in the 2025 Kaggle Agile Community Rules Classification Competition (ISE@JNU-1) (2437 teams participated globally)
• Innovative Work Award in the First National Smart Education Platform Data Innovation Application Event – Multimodal Question Knowledge Point Annotation (ISE@JNU)
• “Star of Scientific Research” in 2020 from CCST. Link
• “Outstanding Postgraduate Scholarship” (2019-2020) from CCST. Link
• The first prize of “Graduate academic performance scholarship” in 2022 from CCST Link