Hello! I am Zonglin Yang, a second-year Ph.D. candidate at Nanyang Technological University supervised by Erik Cambria. 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 twice (in AI4Science group mentored by Liang He and Lijun Wu; and in NLC group mentored by Li Dong).

I am actively seeking internship opportunities (fall 2024, spring 2025), as well as full-time employment starting from June, 2025. If you have any openings available, kindly reach out to me via email (zonglin.yang@ntu.edu.sg).

Research

My current research interests are:

• Pretraining of Foundation Models for Science (current research project).
• Alignment of LLMs (current research project).
• LLMs for Science (Inductive Reasoning for Social Science).
• 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 leverage LLM agents to generate initial novel scientific hypotheses to assist scientists.

(3) A Survey on Logical Reasoning over Natural Language as Knowledge Representation.

(4) Improving Temporal Commonsense Reasoning via distant supervision.

News

[2024.04]. I will take an invited talk at IJCAI 2024 AI4Research workshop on our Inductive Reasoning for Social Science 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!

[2023.09]. Our preprint of LLM & AI for Science is out.

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

[2023.05]. Our Survey on Logical Reasoning will be present at ACL 2023 NLRSE workshop (in a non-archival way) on July 13th!

[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

Conference Reviewer:

• COLM, ARR, COLING 2024, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2023, EMNLP 2022, COLING 2022