Nice to meet you! I am Yiyang Zhang (ๅผ ไธ€้˜ณ), currently a first year Ph.D. student in iNLP Lab of Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), supervised by Prof. Wenxuan Zhang. Before joining SUTD, I received my M.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2026 and my B.E. degree in Communication Engineering from Shandong University in 2023.

My research interest includes LLMs and Multi-Agents System.

Feel free to contact me at yiyang_zhang@mymail.sutd.edu.sg.

๐Ÿ”ฅ News

  • Sept, 2026: ย  ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I started my Ph.D. at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)!
  • June, 2026: ย  ๐ŸŽ“๐ŸŽ“ I graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)!
  • May, 2025: ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ Our paper, โ€œPPT: A Minor Language News Recommendation Model via Cross-Lingual Preference Pattern Transferโ€, was accepted by ACL 2025 (Main Conference)!
  • Oct, 2023: ย  ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ My undergraduate research work, โ€œArtificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Dimensional Memory Mechanism and Adaptive Elite Population for Training Artificial Neural Networks,โ€ was published in IEEE Access!
  • Sept, 2023: ย  ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ We won third place in the Cross-platform Account Linkage Track of the 5th Communication Data Mining Competition!
  • Sept, 2023: ย  ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜Ž I started my postgraduate journey at University of Science and Technology of China!
  • Jun, 2023: ย  ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜Ž I graduated first in my class from Shandong University!
  • May, 2023: ย  ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ I participated in a research internship at the Beijing Research Institute of USTC!

๐Ÿ“ Publications

IEEE TBD Major Revision
ACE

ACE: Attention-Calibrated Encoding for LLM-based Recommendation

Yiyang Zhang, Zheren Fu, Bo Hu, Zhendong Mao

IEEE TBD Major Revision
ACL 2025
PPT

PPT: A Minor Language News Recommendation Model via Cross-Lingual Preference Pattern Transfer

Yiyang Zhang, Nan Chen

ACL 2025 (Main Conference)

Paper | GitHub GitHub stars

IEEE Access
DMABC

Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Dimensional Memory Mechanism and Adaptive Elite Population for Training Artificial Neural Networks

Yiyang Zhang, Bao Pang, Yong Song, Qingyang Xu, Xianfeng Yuan

IEEE Access

Paper

๐ŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • October 2022: ย  National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China
  • October 2020: ย  National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China

๐Ÿ“– Education

  • 2026.09 โ€“ present: ย  Ph.D. in Information Systems Technology and Design,
    Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
    Advisor: Prof. Wenxuan Zhang

  • 2023.09 โ€“ 2026.06: ย  Master in Information and Communication Engineering,
    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
    Advisor: Prof. Yongdong Zhang

  • 2019.09 โ€“ 2023.06: ย  Bachelor in Communication Engineering
    Shandong University (SDU) โ€“ Honors Program in Quantum Information Engineering