My name is Zhong Li, and I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Leiden University, affiliated with the EDA Lab. I am fortunate to be supervised by Dr. Matthijs van Leeuwen (daily supervisor, promotor) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Bäck (promotor). Moreover, I worked as a visiting PhD researcher in DAML group at Technical University of Munich in 2024, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Dr. Stephan Günnemann.

I am interested in the field of Data Mining and Machine Learning. More specifically, I work on explainable and generalizable anomaly detection, with a focus on but not limited to complex data such as event sequence and graph-structured data.

---Methodologies-Oriented: Unsupervised Machine Learning; Anomaly Detection; Transfer Learning; XAI; Graph Neural Networks ---Applications-Oriented: Log Analysis; Predictive Maintenance; Digital Twin; AI for Manufacturing