Postgraduate research students

Zhaohan Meng

I am a PhD candidate in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, supervised by Dr. Ke Yuan and Prof. Iadh Ounis, and a Visiting Research Scholar in the Loscalzo Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, working with Dr. Hao Xu and Prof. Joseph Loscalzo. Outside of research, I enjoy fishing, hiking, and mountaineering.

G161, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QN

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0003-3209-7134

Research title: Heterogeneous entity representation learning for knowledge graph in biomedical science

Research summary

  • AI Agents for Scientific Discovery: Agent-native intelligence for multimodal pathology and clinical data analysis, with self-evolving agents learning from expert feedback and execution experience.
  • Computational Biology: Representation learning, interpretable modelling, and benchmark development for biological systems, with a focus on molecular interactions and drug discovery.
  • Scientific Foundation Models: Pre-training, domain adaptation, and post-training of foundation models for molecular and biomedical applications.

Publications

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Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2024
Number of items: 6.

2026

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liu, Siwei, Xu, Hao, Yuan, Ke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2318-1460 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) GraphMed-LT: Patient-Specific Graph Memory with Latent Clinical Thought Refinement for Multi-Turn Medical Conversations. In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary, 24-29 Oct 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liu, Siwei, Xu, Hao, Yuan, Ke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2318-1460 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) SSE-Bio: A Structured Self-Evolving Agent with Agentic Retrieval Policy for Multi-Hop Biomedical Reasoning. In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary, 24-29 Oct 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liu, Siwei and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) Triplet-Structured Knowledge Integration for Interactive Medical Question Answering. In: Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM @ ACL 2026), San Diego, CA, USA, 03 July 2026,

2025

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Yuan, Ke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2318-1460 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2025) FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction. In: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), Suzhou, China, 05-09 November 2025, pp. 4425-4444. ISBN 9798891763357 (doi: 10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.237)

2024

Meng, Zhaohan, Liu, Siwei, Liang, Shangsong, Jani, Bhautesh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) Heterogeneous biomedical entity representation learning for gene-disease association prediction. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(5), bbae380. (doi: 10.1093/bib/bbae380) (PMID:39154194) (PMCID:PMC11330343)

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2024) FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction. 5th AI for Science workshop: Scaling in AI for SCientific Discovery at The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria, 26-27 July 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

This list was generated on Tue Oct 13 07:19:35 2026 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Conference or Workshop Item | Conference Proceedings
Number of items: 6.

Articles

Meng, Zhaohan, Liu, Siwei, Liang, Shangsong, Jani, Bhautesh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) Heterogeneous biomedical entity representation learning for gene-disease association prediction. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(5), bbae380. (doi: 10.1093/bib/bbae380) (PMID:39154194) (PMCID:PMC11330343)

Conference or Workshop Item

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2024) FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction. 5th AI for Science workshop: Scaling in AI for SCientific Discovery at The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria, 26-27 July 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Conference Proceedings

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liu, Siwei, Xu, Hao, Yuan, Ke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2318-1460 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) GraphMed-LT: Patient-Specific Graph Memory with Latent Clinical Thought Refinement for Multi-Turn Medical Conversations. In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary, 24-29 Oct 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liu, Siwei, Xu, Hao, Yuan, Ke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2318-1460 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) SSE-Bio: A Structured Self-Evolving Agent with Agentic Retrieval Policy for Multi-Hop Biomedical Reasoning. In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary, 24-29 Oct 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liu, Siwei and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2026) Triplet-Structured Knowledge Integration for Interactive Medical Question Answering. In: Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM @ ACL 2026), San Diego, CA, USA, 03 July 2026,

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Yuan, Ke ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2318-1460 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2025) FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction. In: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), Suzhou, China, 05-09 November 2025, pp. 4425-4444. ISBN 9798891763357 (doi: 10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.237)

This list was generated on Tue Oct 13 07:19:35 2026 BST.

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