Honors & Awards

2022 —
2026
2026.06 Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program (BX Program) (BX Program)
2026.01 CSIG Doctoral Dissertation Incentive Program (Nomination)
2025
2025.09 World's Top 2% Scientists
2025.07 Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar
2025.06 Tsinghua University Academic Rising Star (10 recipients university-wide)
2025.06 Beijing Outstanding Graduate
2024
2024.12 First-class Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University (First class)
2024.09 World's Top 2% Scientists
2024.07 ICME 2024 Best Student Paper Award
2024.05 NSFC Young Student Basic Research Program (PhD Candidate), First Cohort
2024.04 Silver Medal, Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions (Student first)
2023
2023.12 Person of the Year 2023 (Research Innovation), School of Software, Tsinghua University (Research Innovation)
2023.12 First-class Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University (First class)
2022
2022.12 First-class Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University (First class)

Research Grants

2024 —
2027 — 2029 General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Hypergraph-Driven Cognitive Enhancement of Large Language Models in Low-Resource Scenarios ¥500K PI
2026 — 2027 Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program Hypergraph-Driven Hallucination Suppression for Large Language Models in Under-Determined Environments ¥640K PI
2025 — 2029 Sub-project, National Science and Technology Major Project Decoding Tumor Immunotherapy Resistance Mechanisms and AI-Driven Intervention Strategies ¥1M PI
2024 — 2026 Young Student Basic Research Program (Doctoral Student), NSFC High-Order Correlation Based 3D Protein Structure Modeling and Analysis ¥300K PI

Publications

2018 —

2026

8 papers
Nature Communications
Hyper-RAG: Combating LLM Hallucinations using Hypergraph-Driven Retrieval-Augmented Generation Nature Portfolio Journal IF 18.9
Yifan Feng*, Hao Hu*, Shihui Ying*, Xingliang Hou, Shiquan Liu, Mingyuan Yang, Junchang Li, Shaoyi Du, Nanning Zheng, Han Hu, Yue Gao
KDD
Hyper-KGGen: A Skill-Driven Knowledge Extractor for High-Quality Knowledge Hypergraph Generation Oral Presentation
Rizhuo Huang#, Yifan Feng#, Rundong Xue, Shihui Ying, Jun-Hai Yong, Chuan Shi, Shaoyi Du, Yue Gao
IEEE TPAMI
Hypergraph Foundation Model IF 22.2
Yue Gao, Yifan Feng, Shiquan Liu, Xiangming Han, Shaoyi Du, Zongze Wu, Han Hu
IEEE TPAMI
How Powerful are Hypergraph Neural Networks? IF 22.2
Yifan Feng, Rizhuo Huang, Yifan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao
IEEE TPAMI
Knowledge-Embedded Hypergraph Neural Networks IF 22.2
Yifan Feng, Yifan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao
IEEE TPAMI
HGNNv2: Stable Hypergraph Neural Networks IF 22.2
Yue Gao, Jielong Yan, Yifan Feng, Xiangmin Han, Shihui Ying, Zongze Wu, Han Hu
IEEE TPAMI
Reinterpreting Hypergraph Kernels: Insights Through Homomorphism Analysis IF 22.2
Yifan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Yifan Feng, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao
AAAI
Cog-RAG: Cognitive-Inspired Dual-Hypergraph with Theme Alignment Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Hao Hu, Yifan Feng, Ruoxue Li, Rundong Xue, Xingliang Hou, Zhiqiang Tian, Yue Gao, Shaoyi Du

2025

11 papers
IEEE TPAMI
Hyper-YOLO: When Visual Object Detection Meets Hypergraph Computation 500+ Citations IF 22.2
Yifan Feng, Jiangang Huang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Xu Zhuang, Jason Wang, Jun-Hai Yong, Guiguang Ding, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao
IEEE TPAMI
HGNN Shield: Defending Hypergraph Neural Networks Against High-Order Structure Attack IF 22.2
Yifan Feng, Yifan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Jun-Hai Yong, Yue Gao
IEEE TPAMI
Kernelized Hypergraph Neural Networks IF 22.2
Yifan Feng, Yifan Zhang, Shihui Ying, Shaoyi Du, Yue Gao
IEEE TPAMI
Self-Supervised Hypergraph Training Framework via Structure-Aware Learning IF 22.2
Yifan Feng, Shiquan Liu, Shihui Ying, Shaoyi Du, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao
ICLR
Beyond Graphs: Can Large Language Models Comprehend Hypergraphs?
Yifan Feng, Chengwu Yang, Xingliang Hou, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao
IEEE TPAMI
Cross-Modal 3D Shape Retrieval via Heterogeneous Dynamic Graph Representation IF 22.2
Yue Dai, Yifan Feng, Nan Ma, Xibin Zhao, Yue Gao
IEEE TNNLS
Mode Hypergraph Neural Network
Shuyi Ji, Yifan Feng, Donglin Di, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao
IEEE TMM
Hypergraph-Based Remaining Prototype Alignment for Open-Set Cross-Domain Image Retrieval
Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Xiaopin Zhong, Yue Gao, Zongze Wu
IEEE TMM
Residual Fuzzy Alignment on Hypergraph for Open-Set 3D Cross-Modal Retrieval
Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Xu Zhuang, Jason Wang, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao
ICCV
Hyper-Depth: Hypergraph-based Multi-Scale Representation Fusion for Monocular Depth Estimation
Lin Bie, Siqi Li, Yifan Feng, Yue Gao
IEEE TNNLS
Hypergraph Foundation Model for Brain Disease Diagnosis
Xiangmin Han, Rundong Xue, Jingxi Feng, Yifan Feng, Shaoyi Du, Jun Shi, Yue Gao

2024

11 papers
IEEE TPAMI
Hypergraph Isomorphism Computation IF 22.2
Yifan Feng, Jiashu Han, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao
IEEE TPAMI
Hypergraph-Based Multi-Modal Representation for Open-Set 3D Object Retrieval IF 22.2
Yifan Feng, Shuyi Ji, Yu-Shen Liu, Shaoyi Du, Qionghai Dai, Yue Gao
ICLR
LightHGNN: Distilling Hypergraph Neural Networks into MLPs for 100x Faster Inference
Yifan Feng, Yihe Luo, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao
ICME
Structure-aware Residual-Center Representation for Self-Supervised Open-set 3D Cross-Modal Retrieval Oral · Best Student Paper Award
Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Yu Jiang
ICLR
Hypergraph Dynamic System
Jielong Yan, Yifan Feng, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao
ICMR
Triadic Elastic Structure Representation for Open-Set Incremental 3D Object Retrieval
Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Lin Bie
NeurIPS
Multi-scale Consistency for Robust 3D Registration via Hierarchical Sinkhorn Tree
Chengwei Ren, Yifan Feng, Weixiang Zhang, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Yue Gao
NeurIPS
Semi-Open 3D Object Retrieval via Hierarchical Equilibrium on Hypergraph
Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Jun Zhang, Jun-Hai Yong, Yue Gao
NeurIPS
Assembly Fuzzy Representation on Hypergraph for Open-Set 3D Object Retrieval
Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Jun Zhang, Jun-Hai Yong, Yue Gao
IJCAI
Negative Prompt Driven Complementary Parallel Representation for Open-World 3D Object Retrieval Oral
Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Yue Gao
IEEE TIP
Multi-View Time-Series Hypergraph Neural Network for Action Recognition
Nan Ma, Zhixuan Wu, Yifan Feng, Cheng Wang, Yue Gao

2023

1 papers
IEEE TNNLS
Hierarchical Set-to-set Representation for 3D Cross-modal Retrieval
Yu Jiang, Cong Hua, Yifan Feng, Yue Gao

2022

3 papers
IEEE TPAMI
HGNN+: Towards General Hypergraph Neural Networks 800+ Citations IF 22.2
Yue Gao, Yifan Feng, Shuyi Ji, Rongrong Ji
Computers & Graphics
SHREC'22 Track: Open-Set 3D Object Retrieval
Yifan Feng, Yue Gao, Xibin Zhao, et al.
IEEE TPAMI
Generating Hypergraph-Based High-Order Representations of Whole-Slide Histopathological Images for Survival Prediction IF 22.2
Donglin Di, Changqing Zou, Yifan Feng, Hanyan Zhou, Rongrong Ji, Qionghai Dai, Yue Gao

2020

1 papers
KDD
Dual Channel Hypergraph Collaborative Filtering 200+ Citations
Shuyi Ji, Yifan Feng, Rongrong Ji, Xibin Zhao, Wanwan Tang, Yue Gao

2019

6 papers
AAAI
Hypergraph Neural Networks Oral · 3000+ Citations
Yifan Feng, Haoxuan You, Zizhao Zhang, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao
AAAI
MeshNet: Mesh Neural Network for 3D Shape Representation Oral · 300+ Citations
Yutong Feng, Yifan Feng, Haoxuan You, Xibin Zhao, Yue Gao
AAAI
PVRNet: Point-View Relation Neural Network for 3D Shape Recognition Oral
Haoxuan You, Yifan Feng, Xibin Zhao, Changqing Zou, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao
IJCAI
Dynamic Hypergraph Neural Networks 300+ Citations
Jianwen Jiang, Yuxuan Wei, Yifan Feng, Jingxuan Cao, Yue Gao
ACM TOMM
Physiological Signals-based Emotion Recognition via High-order Correlation Learning
Junjie Zhu, Yuxuan Wei, Yifan Feng, Xibin Zhao, Yue Gao
ICIP
Emotion Recognition by Edge-Weighted Hypergraph Neural Network
Jingzhi Shao, Junjie Zhu, Yuxuan Wei, Yifan Feng, Xibin Zhao

2018

2 papers
CVPR
GVCNN: Group-view Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Shape Recognition 800+ Citations
Yifan Feng, Zizhao Zhang, Xibin Zhao, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao
ACM MM
PVNet: A Joint Convolutional Network of Point Cloud and Multi-View for 3D Shape Recognition Oral · 200+ Citations
Haoxuan You, Yifan Feng, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao