CAUSALITY · STATISTICS · MACHINE LEARNING

About me

Understanding causality.
Building more reliable intelligence.

I am a Ph.D. student in School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, advised by Prof. Mingming Gong. and Prof. Howard Bondell.

My research focuses on causal inference and large language models. I develop robust methods for estimating causal effects in complex settings, including unobserved confounding and violations of standard assumptions. I am also interested in bringing causal or logical reasoning and large language models together.

Previously, I received my M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Statistics from Peking University, advised by Prof. Xiao-Hua Zhou. I also spent some time in ByteDance and Agibot as a research intern.

chuan.zhou@student.unimelb.edu.au
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Publications

Scholar

* Equal contribution.

ICML 2026

Open-World LLM Logical Reasoning

Ye Mo, Chuan Zhou, Fengxiang Cheng, Jialin Yu, Liangming Pan, Fenrong Liu, Sheng Zhou, Haoxuan Li, Zhouchen Lin, Philip Torr

International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026.

ICDM 2024

UMVUE-DR: Uniformly Minimum Variance Unbiased Doubly Robust Learning with Reduced Bias and Variance for Debiased Recommendation

Chunyuan Zheng, Taojun Hu, Chuan Zhou, Xiao-Hua Zhou

IEEE ICDM Workshop on Causal Representation Learning, 2024.

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Academic service

Conference reviewer

ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, SIGKDD, AAAI, ACM MM, ICDM, RecSys

Journal reviewer

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), Machine Learning, Neural Networks

Workshop organizer

ICLR 2026 Workshop on LLM Reasoning

AAAI 2026 Bridge LMReasoning