Zizhen Deng （邓紫臻）

Zizhen Deng （邓紫臻）

Causal learning · Biomedical AI · Causal world models

Publications

My recent work centers on deep causal learning, robust causal discovery, and temporal causal inference for precision medicine. For citation counts and the latest record, see Google Scholar.

2026

  1. Zizhen Deng, Wei Wu, Chi Zhang, Xitong Zhao, Minghao Pu, Yanbin Bu, Yanfeng Liao, Changguan Wang, Jiarui Yang, Yanni Wang, and Jinzhuo Wang. A generalist precision medication framework using temporal causal inference based on treatment-free physiological profiles. Nature Communications, 17, 6562, 2026. First author.

  2. Zizhen Deng, Jiaru Zhang, Rui Ding, Bojun Huang, Jinzhuo Wang, Qiang Fu, Shi Han, and Dongmei Zhang. Test Time Training for Supervised Causal Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.30015, 2026. First author.

2025

  1. Zizhen Deng, Hu Tian, Xiaolong Zheng, and Daniel Dajun Zeng. Deep Causal Learning: Representation, Discovery and Inference. ACM Computing Surveys, 58(2), Article 28, 1–36, 2025. First author. 2025 Impact Factor: 30.4 (ranked 1/146 in Computer Science Theory & Methods).

  2. Jiaru Zhang, Rui Ding, Qiang Fu, Bojun Huang, Zizhen Deng, Yang Hua, Haibing Guan, Shi Han, and Dongmei Zhang. Learning Identifiable Structures Helps Avoid Bias in DNN-based Supervised Causal Learning. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), PMLR 258:577–585, 2025.

  3. Wei Wu, Can Liao, Zizhen Deng, Zhengrui Guo, and Jinzhuo Wang. Neuron Platonic Intrinsic Representation From Dynamics Using Contrastive Learning. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

Earlier work

  1. Zizhen Deng, Xiaolong Zheng, Z. Ye, Z. Cai, and Daniel Dajun Zeng. Credible Influence Analysis in Mass Media Using Causal Inference. IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2021.

  2. Zizhen Deng, Z. Cai, and M. Liang. A Multi-Hop VANETs-Assisted Offloading Strategy in Vehicular Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Access, 8:53062–53071, 2020.

Publication list updated from the CV and Google Scholar profile in August 2026.