Yuan Zhaolin is an Associate Professor at the School of Intelligence Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He was selected for the 2025 National Funded Postdoctoral Researchers Program. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2023. Following his doctoral studies, he conducted research at the Huawei 2012 Central Research Institute and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His primary research interests include intelligent mining, mineral processing, and metallurgy; intelligent manufacturing; intelligent control; large language model applications; and industrial system optimization. He has led the independent development of the “Paste Backfill Intelligent Control and 3D Visualization System” and the “Mineral Processing Section Decision Support System,” which have generated cumulative economic benefits exceeding 40 million RMB for three domestic and international mining companies. He has published over 10 papers in top-tier artificial intelligence conferences such as AAAI and high-level international journals including IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TII, IEEE JAS, TUST, and Acta Automatica Sinica. Additionally, he has obtained more than ten patents and software copyrights. He has presided over four research projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and enterprise-sponsored horizontal projects valued at over one million RMB each. His honors include the First Prize of the China Gold Association Science and Technology Award, the Second Prize of the China Institute of Electronics Science and Technology Progress Award, the University of Science and Technology Beijing Top Ten Academic Stars, the ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Gold Award, and a total of eight distinguished accolades.
Intelligent Mining, Intelligent Manufacturing, LLM Applications, Industrial World Model, Industrial Systems Optimization, and Reinforcement Learning, etc.
Xiaorui Li, Zhaolin Yuan, Hezheng Wang, Yong Wang, Xiaojuan Ban, "Quantification of paste homogeneity by vision-based identification method: Case study for an industrial mixer." Developments in the Built Environment, 2025. (SCI-2区, IF=6.2)
Zhaolin Yuan, Long Ma, Wenjia Wei, Xia Zhu, Mingjie Sun, Duxin Chen, Xiaojuan Ban, "NetEventCause: Event-Driven Root Cause Analysis for Large Network System Without Topology." IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2025. (SCI-1区, IF=10.2)
Zhaolin Yuan, ZiXuan Zhang, Xiaorui Li, Yunduan Cui, Ming Li, Xiaojuan Ban, "Controlling Partially Observed Industrial System Based on Offline Reinforcement Learning—A Case Study of Paste Thickener." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2025. (SCI-1区)
Zhaolin Yuan, Ming Li, Chang Liu, Fangyuan Han, Haolun Huang, Hong-Ning Dai, "Chat with MES: LLM-driven user interface for manipulating garment manufacturing system through natural language." Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2025. (SCI-1区, IF=12.3)
Zhaolin Yuan, Yewan Wang, Xiaojuan Ban, Chunyu Ning, Hong-Ning Dai, Hao Wang, "Autonomous-Jump-ODENet: Identifying Continuous-Time Jump Systems for Cooling-System Prediction." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023. (SCI-1区)
Zhaolin Yuan, Xiaojuan Ban, Zixuan Zhang, Xiaorui Li, Hong{-}Ning Dai, "ODE-RSSM: Learning Stochastic Recurrent State Space Model from Irregularly Sampled Data." In the proceedings of Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI2023, 2023. (CCF-A)
Zhaolin Yuan, Xiaojuan Ban, Fangyuan Han, Xingquan Zhang, Shenghua Yin, Yiming Wang, "Integrated three-dimensional visualization and soft-sensing system for underground paste backfilling." Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2022. (SCI-1区)
李潇睿, 班晓娟, 袁兆麟, 乔浩然, "工业场景下基于深度学习的时序预测方法及应用." 工程科学学报, 2022.
Zhaolin Yuan, Xiaorui Li, Di Wu, Xiaojuan Ban, Nai-Qi Wu, Hong-Ning Dai, Hao Wang, "Continuous-Time Prediction of Industrial Paste Thickener System With Differential ODE-Net." IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2022. (SCI-1区)
袁兆麟, 何润姿, 姚超, 李佳, 班晓娟, "基于强化学习的浓密机底流浓度在线控制算法." 自动化学报, 2021. (CCF-A中文)
Jia Li, Zhaolin Yuan, Xiaojuan Ban, "An Improved Reinforcement Learning Based Heuristic Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Model-Free Optimal Control." In the proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN2020, 2020. (CCF-C)
Zhaolin Yuan, Jinlong Hu, Di Wu, Xiaojuan Ban, "A Dual-Attention Recurrent Neural Network Method for Deep Cone Thickener Underflow Concentration Prediction." Sensors, 2020.
Huan Wang, Zhaolin Yuan, Yibin Chen, Bingyang Shen, Aixiang Wu, "An industrial missing values processing method based on generating model." Computer Networks, 2019.
Zhaolin Yuan, Xiaojuan Ban, Jinlong Hu, "Improving Word Representation Quality Trained by word2vec via a More Efficient Hierarchical Clustering Method." In the proceedings of Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - 15th International Conference, CDVE 2018, 2018.
Academical Positions
Reviewer