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Differentiating Network Design Objectives for Balancing Cost and Distance
Zishang Chen*, Longhe Lin*, Zhiyuan Julian Su, Qi Qi
Learning to decide
under uncertainty.
I develop principled methods for intelligent systems that reason, adapt, and make reliable decisions over time.
I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, under the joint supervision of Prof. Vahid Tarokh and Prof. Xiang Cheng.
I obtained my B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence from Renmin University of China, working closely with Prof. Xiao Zhang and Prof. Qi Qi.
Currently exploring
LLM Reasoning
Agentic AI
Generative Models
Selected Research
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CRAMER: Control via Request-Aware Masking for Editing Recommenders
Zhiyuan Julian Su, Naihe Feng, Zhen Luther Qin, Ga Wu
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Revisiting Clustering of Neural Bandits: Selective Reinitialization for Mitigating Loss of Plasticity
Zhiyuan Su, Sunhao Dai, Xiao Zhang
Recent News
- PaperCDPG is accepted by NeurIPS 2026. Congratulations to Zishang!
- PaperCRAMER is accepted by ICML 2026. Many thanks to Prof. Ga Wu, Naihe and Luther!
- PaperIMPACTNet is accepted by KDD 2026 Research Track. Congratulations to Yuhan!
- AwardSelected to receive a SIGKDD-supported KDD 2025 Student Travel Award.
- PaperSeRe is accepted by KDD 2025 Research Track.
- PaperTICNet is accepted by TheWebConf 2025.
Education
Duke University
CurrentPratt School of Engineering · Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Durham, NC, USA
Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence
B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence
Beijing, China
Exchange, Mathematics & Statistics
Davis, CA, USA
Experience
Mitacs Globalink Research Internship
Visiting Researcher at Dalhousie University · Advisor: Prof. Ga Wu
Halifax, NS, Canada
Academic Service
Reviewer
ICLR ’27AAAI ’27KDD ’25TheWebConf ’26TheWebConf ’27
Let’s start a conversation.
I'm always happy to discuss research ideas, possible collaborations, and questions around cutting-edge AI and machine learning methods.
zhiyuan.j.su@duke.eduDurham, NC 27705
+1 984 317 3082