Hi, thanks for stopping by.

I am Zonglin Yang, a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Nanyang Technological University supervised by Erik Cambria. I also work closely with Soujanya Poria. Before NTU, I obtained my master’s degree at Cornell University, supervised by Claire Cardie and Xinya Du, and my bachelor’s degree at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Xinggang Wang. I have interned at Microsoft Research in NLC group mentored by Li Dong.

I will be on the job market in June 2025! Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in my research or have relevant opportunities.

Research

My current research interests are:

• LLMs for Scientific Discovery (in Social Science and Chemistry).
• Alignment of LLMs.
• Reasoning & Knowledge in Natural Language Processing (Inductive Reasoning, Logical Reasoning Survey, Case-based Reasoning, Temporal Commonsense Reasoning).

More specifically about my past research:

(1) Bridging research between classic AI (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning) and Natural Language Processing, e.g., Inductive Reasoning and Case-based Reasoning.

(2) A Further Work on Inductive Reasoning that leverages LLM agents to generate novel and valid social science hypotheses to assist scientist.

(30 A further work on Chemistry Scientific Discovery that can rediscover the chemistry hypotheses published in Nature and Science.

News

[2024.10]. Our preprint of Chemistry Scientific Discovery is out.

[2024.07]. Our LLM & Scientific Discovery paper has won the Best Poster Award in ICML 2024 AI4Science workshop!

[2024.05]. Got one paper accepted to ACL 2024. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2024.04]. I will take an invited talk at IJCAI 2024 AI4Research workshop on our LLM & Scientific Discovery paper on August 5th!

[2024.01]. Got one paper accepted to EACL 2024. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2023.10]. Got one paper accepted to EMNLP 2023. Congrats to Wei!

[2023.06]. I will take an invited talk at ICCBR 2023 TMG workshop on our Case-based Reasoning paper on July 17th!

[2023.05]. Got one paper accepted to ACL 2023. Congrats to Jinjie!

[2023.04]. Our EACL 2023 paper will have an oral presentation!

[2023.01]. Got one paper accepted to EACL 2023. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2020.10]. Got one paper accepted to EMNLP 2020 (findings). Thanks to all my collaborators!

Academic Services

Area Chair:

• ICML 2024 AI4Science Workshop

Conference Reviewer:

• ARR, ICLR 2025, NLPCC 2024, COLM 2024, COLING 2024, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2023, EMNLP 2022, COLING 2022