Hi there, I am Zhiyuan Su (Chinese name: 苏智渊), you can call me “Julian”. I am currently a senior undergraduate at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. I was an exchange student at University of California, Davis (2025.01 – 2025.03) and a visiting research student at Dalhousie University (2025.07 – 2025.10), sponsored by Mitacs, Canada.
My research interests focus on reinforcement learning, online learning, continual learning, recommender system, and computational advertising. In addition, I am also interested in board application of AI models. Recently, I am focusing on:
(1) sequential bidding ranking algorithms;
(2) controllable model editing in sequential recommendation.
My research aims to build intelligent systems that are elegant in theory and effective in practice, and provide credible solutions to the urgent needs of contemporary society.
❗️Now I am actively seeking a PhD position for [Fall 2026]. If you believe I could be a potential fit for your group, please contact me at zhiyuansurenminu@gmail.com.
🔥 News
- 2025.07.08: 🎉 Selected to receive a SIGKDD-supported KDD 2025 Student Travel Award!
- 2025.06.30: 🎉 Received the presidential scholarship of 40,000 CNY for being an outstanding exchange student at UC Davis.
- 2025.05.15: 🎉 A paper about clustering of neural bandits was accepted by KDD 2025 Research Track. Congratulations to myself on my first first-author paper!
- 2025.03.25: 🎉 Completed Global Study Program at UC Davis and achieved Academic Perfection.
- 2025.02.03: 🎉 A paper about intergrating ad auctions and recommendations was accepted by WWW 2025. Congratulations to myself!
- 2024.12.10: 🎉 Admitted to the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship full-scholarship summer research program.
📝 Publications
Zhiyuan Su, Sunhao Dai, Xiao Zhang
- Accepted at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2025 Oral
- Watch our promotional video on YouTube!
A Context-Aware Framework for Integrating Ad Auctions and Recommendations
Yuchao Ma, Weian Li, Yuejia Dou, Zhiyuan Su, Changyuan Yu, Qi Qi
- Accepted at ACM The Web Conference (WWW) 2025 Poster
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025.07: 💰 SIGKDD-supported KDD 2025 Student Travel Award – 1,000 USD
- 2025.06: 💰 Presidential Scholarship for Outstanding International Exchange – 40,000 CNY
- 2025.04: 💰 Municipal Approval for Student Innovation Project – 7,500 CNY
- 2025.01: 💰 Mitacs Globalink Internship Scholarship – 6,000 CAD
- 2024.12: 🏆 National Second Prize, 19th “Challenge Cup” National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works
- 2024.10: 🏆 Second Prize, Beijing Mathematical Contest in Modeling
- 2024.10: 💰 Second-class Academic Scholarship – 3,000 CNY
- 2024.04: 💰 Municipal Approval for Student Innovation Project – 7,500 CNY
📖 Educations
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2025.01 – 2025.03: 🇺🇸 Global Study Program, University of California, Davis
- Major: Mathematics & Statistics, Graduated with Academic Perfection
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2022.09 – Present: 🇨🇳 Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China
- Bachelor of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence, Supervisors: Dr. Qi Qi, Dr. Xiao Zhang
💻 Work Experiences
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2025.07 – 2025.10: 🇨🇦 Mitacs Globalink Research Intern & Visiting Research Student, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
- Lab: Dalhousie Applied Machine Learning Research Lab, Collaborator: Dr. Ga Wu
- Project: AI safety for recommender systems in social media services
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2024.05 – 2024.09: 🇨🇳 Summer Intern, Pinecone Talent Elite Project, Baidu Inc.
💼 Services
- Artifact badging reviewer, KDD 2025
🪽 Beyond Academics
I love music, literature, travel and badminton. I am a campus singer at Renmin University of China and have been invited to participate in various concerts and music festivals at RUC. I am also a musician at NetEase Cloud Music, and my stage name is 艾诺 Ayinor. Recently, I am also working on my own new song, so stay tuned!
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