Hi, I am Zhiyuan Su. 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). Now I am also 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 generative 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.

🔥 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

KDD 2025
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Revisiting Clustering of Neural Bandits: Selective Reinitialization for Mitigating Loss of Plasticity

Zhiyuan Su, Sunhao Dai, Xiao Zhang

WWW 2025
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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
  • 2024.04:  🎖 Outstanding Communist Youth League Member

📖 Educations

  • 2025.01 – 2025.03:  🇺🇸 Global Study Program, University of California, Davis

    - Major: Mathematics & Statistics, Graduated with Academic Perfection

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2024.11 – Present:  🇨🇳 Research Intern, Beijing Key Laboratory of Research on Large Models and Intelligent Governance
  • 2024.05 – 2024.09:  🇨🇳 Research Intern, Engineering Research Center of Next-Generation Intelligent Search and Recommendation, MOE

💼 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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