Ming Yang

Ming Yang

Ph.D. Student @ Dalian University of Technology

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I am a Ph.D. student at Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China, advised by Prof. Yanqing Guo. I am a visiting student of the Theta Team at Monash University. I am also in close and ongoing collaboration with Assistant Professor Dr. Xin Zheng from RMIT University.
My research focuses on: (1) AI for Biology; (2) Protein Design. I work on machine-learning methods for computational protein design and related problems at the interface of AI and biomedicine.

Postdoctoral opportunities. As a Ph.D. candidate, I am seeking postdoctoral positions at the intersection of AI and biology, with a particular focus on protein design and drug discovery. I am open to discussing research fit and potential collaborations. Please feel free to email me at mingyanglucky@gmail.com for my full CV and research statement.

Ming Yang
Ming Yang
Ph.D. Student
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

News

  • [May 2026] My paper “Multi-Objective Protein Design via Memory-Aware Test-Time Scaling in Diffusion Models” was accepted by International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026!
  • [May 2026] Our paper “LineageFlow: Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Family-Aware Protein Sequence Generation” was accepted by International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026!
  • [Sep 2025] Our team was awarded NVIDIA Academic Grant Program: “Natural Language-Driven Protein Sequence and Structure Co-Design”.
  • [February 2025] Our paper “Efficient and Diverse De Novo Protein Backbone Design with SE (3)-Equivariant Diffusion” was accepted by Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2025!

Selected Research

AI4Science; Protein Design;

AI for Science

Protein Design: Scalability & Diversity;

ICML 2026 | Yang, Ming, ..., et al. "Multi-Objective Protein Design via Memory-Aware Test-Time Scaling in Diffusion Models." Paper Code Slides
ICML 2026 | Liang, Langzhang, Yang, Ming, ..., et al. "LineageFlow: Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Family-Aware Protein Sequence Generation." Paper Code Slides
PAKDD 2025 | Zhou, Ruipeng, Ming Yang, ..., et al. "Efficient and Diverse De Novo Protein Backbone Design with SE (3)-Equivariant Diffusion." Paper Code Slides

Team Members

Ph.D. / Master / Visiting Students

I am fortunate to collaborate with a group of outstanding and passionate students. Their dedication, creativity, and willingness to explore challenging problems play a central role in the growth and direction of our research.

Bo Li
Ph.D.
Griffith University (Australia)
Dynamic Graph Learning
Research Outputs: CIKM 2025; ICDM 2025 (×2).
LinkedIn
Zeyu Wang
Visiting Ph.D.
Griffith University (Australia) | Zhejiang University of Technology (China)
Molecular Property LearningRecSys Security
Research Outputs: NeurIPS 2025; arXiv 2025 (Survey).
GitHub Google Scholar
Hongjiang Chen
Upcoming Visiting Ph.D.
Griffith University (Australia) | Hangzhou Dianzi University (China)
Dynamic Graph Explainability Multi-LLM Agents
Research Outputs: IJCAI 2025 (×2); PR 2026; In Progress.
Google Scholar
Ming Yang
Upcoming Visiting Ph.D.
Monash University (Australia) | Dalian University of Technology (China)
AI4Bio Protein Design
Research Outputs: PAKDD 2025; In Progress.
Huanchang Ma
Ph.D.
Northeast Normal University (China)
Test-time Model Evaluation AI4Healthcare
Research Outputs: In Progress.
Yating Liu
M.Sc.
Dalian University of Technology (China)
Test-time Adaptation Recommender Systems
Research Outputs: IJCAI 2025.
Jian Zhang
M.Sc. | Research Assistant
University of Sydney (Australia)
AI4Healthcare Automated Machine Learning
Research Outputs: In Progress.
Jiayi Wang
M.Sc.
Dalian University of Technology (China)
Multi-domain Adaptation
Research Outputs: ADMA 2025.
Fuxin Yu
M.Sc.
Dalian University of Technology (China)
Graph Condensation AI for Software Engineering
Research Outputs: In Progress.
Jiayi Chen
M.Sc.
Dalian University of Technology (China)
Multi-modal RecSys Test-time Adaptation
Research Outputs: In Progress.
Boda Duan
M.Sc.
Dalian University of Technology (China)
AI4Healthcare Diffusion Model
Research Outputs: In Progress.
Shuo Li
M.Sc.
Guangxi University (China)
AI4Healthcare Graph RAG
Research Outputs: In Progress.
Ting Wei
M.Sc.
Guangxi University (China)
Graph Anomoly Detection
Research Outputs: In Progress.