Zhiyuan (Julian) Su

About Me

Introduction

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 (Jan 2025 - Mar 2025) and a visiting research student at Dalhousie University (Jul 2025 - Oct 2025), sponsored by Mitacs, Canada.

❗️I am actively seeking Ph.D. positions starting in Fall 2026. If you think my background is a good fit for you, please don't hesitate to contact me via zhiyuansurenminu@gmail.com!

Research Interests

My research interests focus on reinforcement learning, sequential decision-making, continual learning, online learning, and controllable & personalized AI. 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 generative models.

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.

News

Nov 24, 2025

IMPACTNet was accepted by KDD 2026 Research Track. Congratulations to Yuhan!

Jul 08, 2025

Selected to receive a SIGKDD-supported KDD 2025 Student Travel Award!

May 15, 2025

A paper about clustering of neural bandits was accepted by KDD 2025 Research Track. Congratulations to myself on my first first-author paper!

Feb 03, 2025

A paper about integrating ad auctions and recommendations was accepted by WWW 2025.

Publications

IMPACTNet: Unifying Auto-bidding in End-to-End Merged Auctions

Yuhan Wang, Yuchao Ma, Liang Zhang, Ziyuan Wang, Zhiyuan Su, Qi Qi, Yafei Wang, Xu Li, Yuyao Liu, Pengjie Wang, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng

KDD 2026 Automated Mechanism Design Auto-Bidding Externalities

Revisiting Clustering of Neural Bandits: Selective Reinitialization for Mitigating Loss of Plasticity

Zhiyuan Su, Sunhao Dai, Xiao Zhang

KDD 2025 Neural Bandit Sequential Decision Making Continual Learning

A Context-Aware Framework for Integrating Ad Auctions and Recommendations

Yuchao Ma, Weian Li, Yuejia Dou, Zhiyuan Su, Changyuan Yu, Qi Qi

WWW 2025 Automated Mechanism Design Integrated Ad Auction Online Advertising

Honors and Awards

Nov 2025

Qiushi Academic International Support Program [Highest Funding]

Jul 2025

SIGKDD-supported KDD 2025 Student Travel Award [1,000 USD]

Jun 2025

Presidential Scholarship [40,000 CNY]

Jan 2025

Mitacs Globalink Internship Scholarship [6,000 CAD]

Dec 2024

[National Second Prize] 19th "Challenge Cup" National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works

Education

Jan 2025 – Mar 2025

Exchange, University of California, Davis

Major: Mathematics & Statistics
Graduated with Academic Perfection

Sep 2022 – 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

Jul 2025 – Oct 2025 | Mitacs Research Intern

Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

Visiting student at Dalhousie Applied Machine Learning Research Lab (DAMLR)
Supervisor: Dr. Ga Wu

May 2024 – Sep 2024 | Summer Intern

Baidu Inc.

Pinecone Talent Elite Project

Services

Reviewer

Reviewer, KDD 2025, WWW 2025.

Beyond Academics

Music & Arts

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 Ayinor.