Postgraduate Student Department of Computing Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ, UK Email: m.rao[AT]imperial.ac.uk

Education

Imperial College London (Sept. 2023 - Sept. 2024) A global top ten university, ranked 2nd in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2025 MSc in Advanced Computing

Fuzhou University (Sept. 2019 - Jun. 2023) Double First-Class universities, Project 211 university in China BEng in Software Engineering

Experience

UK Dementia Research Institute, Imperial College London (March. 2024 - Sept. 2024)

• Analysed the large biological datasets and applied to generative models of the expression of genes.

• Focused on the epi-genetic underpinnings of disease processes involved in dementias and the affect on blood protein levels.

Laboratory of Network Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, China (Jun. 2022 - May. 2023)

• Improved a rumour detection method combining Multi-level Attention and Graph Neural Network.

• Increased the detection accuracies on the Twitter15 dataset to 91.7% and the Twitter16 dataset to 92.9%.

CAS Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Space Information, China (Nov. 2021 – Jun. 2022)

• Extracted potential semantic features and lighting information by an illumination inconsistency method.

• Improved a two-branch Deepfake Detection method combining spatial and frequency features.

• Increased the detection accuracy up to 98.27% in high-quality forgery images.

Key Laboratory of Intelligent Metro of Universities in Fujian, China (Sept. 2021 – Dec. 2021)

• Developed a real-time data collecting application with 5 encapsulated components using Java.

• Collected 18744 pieces of valid data and used Map APIs to find the base station data exchange areas.

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Graduate of Fuzhou University, 2023

• China National Scholarship, (Top 0.2% in all Chinese undergraduate students), 2022

• Outstanding Student Cadre of Fuzhou University, (Top 2% in the university), 2022

• Excellent Student of Fuzhou University, (Top 1% in the university), 2021

• The First Prize Scholarship of Fuzhou University, (Top 3% in class), 2020, 2021, 2022

• Silver Prize of National Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition, 2021

• Bronze Prize of the 7th "Internet +" National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 2021

Publications

A Dual-branch DeepFake Detection Focuses on Illumination Inconsistency (Under Review) Mengyu Rao, Wenbo Zhou, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu

Rumor Detection Model Based on Dynamic Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network (Accepted) Wenlong Zhu, Yuzhong Chen, Mengyu Rao

Patents

Rumour detection method and system based on integrating emotion mining, CN115422945A. (Invention Patent) Yuzhong Chen, Wenlong Zhu, Mengyu Rao, Yujie Wan |Google Patent | Cnki Patent|

Vehicle speed estimation error evaluation method and system based on base station switching data, CN114818905A. (Invention Patent) Weiping Chen, Mengyu Rao, Gaosheng Lin, Ruiquan Lin |Google Patent | Cnki Patent|

Four-footed bionic robot dog, CN215553658U. (Utility Model Patent) Weiping Chen, Mengyu Rao, Jie Huang, Ruiquan Lin |Google Patent | Cnki Patent | Certificate |

Competitions & Projects

Silver Prize National Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition, 2021 Team: Xiaolong Han, Mengyu Rao, Jiatong Zhang, Ningwei Zhang

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