张欣爽 Xin-Shuang Zhang Can be pronounced as "see sun" M.Sc. Student, LAMDA Group School of Intelligence Science and Technology National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology Nanjing University, Suzhou, China. Supervisor: Associate Prof. Wang-Zhou Dai

先为力胜 (Win through Strength First)

About Me

• Currently I am a M.Sc. student of School of Intelligence Science and Technology in Nanjing University Suzhou Campus and a member of LAMDA Group, led by professor Zhi-Hua Zhou.
• I received my B.Sc. degree in School of Mathematics and Statistics from Central South University. In 2023, I was admitted to study for a M.Sc. degree in Nanjing University.
• I am currently an Algorithm Intern at ByteDance and am actively seeking research collaborators.

Research Interests

My research interests include Machine Learning. Currently, I am focusing on the sub-fields:

• LLMs Applications (Manuscript in preparation): Building agentic workflows to tackle NLP tasks such as fact-checking.

• Causality Discovery in Time Series (Manuscript in preparation): Leveraging Granger causality to uncover relationships among variables, with applications in forecasting, anomaly detection, and more.

• Generative Recommendation (Under exploration): Integrating generative models—such as LLMs and diffusion models—into recommendation systems to enhance user experience.

• Generative Bidding for Advertising (Under exploration): Modeling the bidding process as a sequential decision-making problem, combining reinforcement learning with generative modeling to dynamically optimize bidding strategies.

If you're interested in any of these topics, feel free to reach out to me via email for further discussion!

Internships

• 2024.08 ~ 2025.04, Microsoft (China), MAI, Applied LLMs to fake news detection.
• 2025.05 ~ now, ByteDance, Data, Bidding strategies for live-stream advertising.

Awards & Honors

• China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Second Prize (top 3%), China, 2021
• Outstanding Graduate Students (Cadre, top 1.5%), Nanjing University, 2024
• Graduate Student Academic Scholarship, Second Prize, Nanjing University, 2024
• “移动之光·数智创新” Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2024

Service

• 4th International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning (IJCLR 2024). (Organisation Committee Member; Nanjing, 2024)
• Theory of Computation. (For new undergraduate students, With Ph.D. student Yu-Cong He; Spring, 2024)
• Mathematical Logic. (Teaching Assistant, With Associate Professor Wang-Zhou Dai; Spring, 2024)
• Probability and Statistics. (Teaching Assistant, With Assistant Professor Shao-Qun Zhang; Autumn, 2023)

Correspondence

• Email:
  zhangxs [at] smail.nju.edu.cn

• GitHub:
  https://github.com/XinShuangZ

• Office:
  南雍楼-东516, Nanjing University Suzhou Campus, Suzhou, China