Fangyanuo Zhou

Preferred name: Noah Zhou

Undergraduate, Dual Degree Program (2023.9 – 2027.6)
Major: Software Engineering | Minor: Business Administration
South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China

English Proficiency: IELTS 8.0/9.0 | GRE Verbal 161/170, Quantitative 170/170

Email: noahchou2005(at)gmail(dot)com

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Short Bio

Fangyanuo Zhou (preferred name: Noah Zhou) is an undergraduate at South China University of Technology (SCUT), enrolled in a dual degree program with a major in Software Engineering and a minor in Business Administration (2023.9 – 2027.6). He ranks 1st in his grade, with a weighted average score of 92.24/100 and a GPA of 3.95/4.00. His research interests span fake news detection, social computing, AI for Business, health and medical AI, recommender systems, multi-agent systems, LLM value alignment, multimodal learning, and computer vision.

He currently works as a research assistant with Prof. Quanyi Zou on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of news communication and large models, and with Prof. Yuanyuan Dang on a multimodal AI mental health coaching system and AIGC medical case generation. He has co-authored a multimodal MoE fake news detection paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics [PDF], with one paper under review (counterfactual contrastive explanations for smart-contract vulnerability detection), another in progress, and a patent pending.

Research Interests

Fake news detection, social computing, AI for Business, health and medical AI, recommender systems, multi-agent systems, LLM value alignment, multimodal learning, sentiment analysis, hallucination research, text readability analysis, computer vision and target recognition.

News

2026.05: Meritorious Winner, 2026 COMAP’s Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM).
2026: Co-authored the paper “CMLE: A Collaborative LoRA-Enhanced Expert Framework for Multimodal Fake News Detection,” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (doi: 10.1109/TCE.2026.3677445).
2025.10: First Prize (Guangdong Region), 2025 National Mathematical Modeling Competition; National Finalist, 2025 China International College Students Innovation Competition.
2025: Awarded a tuition-free place in the 2025 HKUST Summer School (English-taught, 4 spots university-wide).

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