About

Zanekun Yang

AI Agent Researcher · Tencent FinTech

My work begins with a simple question: as information becomes more abundant, has our capacity for understanding grown with it?

I focus on Deep Research: building agentic systems that search, connect, and verify scattered evidence, then reason over it to produce grounded answers. I care not only about finding answers, but about helping people understand how those answers take shape.

I received my bachelor's degree from Hefei University of Technology and my master's degree from South China University of Technology, where I was advised by Prof. Jin Xu. I am currently conducting research on AI agents at Tencent FinTech.

Zanekun Yang
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Selected milestones across my education, research, and industry experience.

2026 · Jun

Graduated from South China University of Technology

Received my master's degree from the School of Future Technology at South China University of Technology. From here, to anywhere.

2025 · May

Joined Tencent FinTech as an Agent Research Intern

Joined Tencent FinTech for a summer internship, conducting research on AI agents.

2024 · Jul

Joined WeChat Wen Yi Wen as a recommendation algorithm intern

Improved a distributed graph-based recall pipeline, reducing incremental training time from 10 hours to 30 minutes, and shipped a sampling strategy that improved new-user retention by 3%.

2024 · May

EBMGC-GNF accepted by IEEE TPAMI

Our paper "EBMGC-GNF: Efficient Balanced Multi-View Graph Clustering via Good Neighbor Fusion" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

2023 · Aug

Joined Tec-Do as a DSP Algorithm Engineer

Worked on CTR prediction and intelligent bidding for the AdsDSP platform, delivering a solution that outperformed the existing third-party service and increased advertiser ROI from 0.7 to 1.4.

2023 · Jun

Graduated from Hefei University of Technology

Received my bachelor's degree from the School of Computer Science and Information Engineering and was named an Outstanding Graduate of Anhui Province (<1%).

2022 · Oct

Awarded the 2022 National Scholarship

Received the National Scholarship, one of the highest honors for undergraduate students in China, awarded to fewer than 1% of students at my university.

Selected Research

Publications

Peer-reviewed research on efficient graph learning, multi-view information fusion, and balanced clustering.

Overview of the EBMGC-GNF framework, from multi-view graphs to the balanced indicator matrix

IEEE TPAMI · 2024 · Vol. 46, No. 12

EBMGC-GNF: Efficient Balanced Multi-View Graph Clustering via Good Neighbor Fusion

Danyang Wu, Zhenkun Yang, Jitao Lu, Jin Xu, Xiangmin Xu, and Feiping Nie

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, pp. 7878–7892. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3398220

Paper Code
BibTeX
@article{wu2024ebmgc,
  title   = {EBMGC-GNF: Efficient Balanced Multi-View Graph Clustering via Good Neighbor Fusion},
  author  = {Wu, Danyang and Yang, Zhenkun and Lu, Jitao and Xu, Jin and Xu, Xiangmin and Nie, Feiping},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  year    = {2024},
  volume  = {46},
  number  = {12},
  pages   = {7878--7892},
  doi     = {10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3398220}
}
Recognition

Honors & Awards

Awards and recognitions earned along the way.

2023

Outstanding Graduate of Anhui Province

Provincial-level outstanding graduate honor, awarded to fewer than 1% of graduates.

2022

National Scholarship

The highest undergraduate honor, awarded to fewer than 1% of students.

2022

Second Prize — CUMCM Anhui Division

2021

First Prize — Anhui Statistical Modeling Competition

2020–2022

First-Class Scholarship · Merit Student

Multiple First-Class Scholarships and university Merit Student awards during undergraduate studies.

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