I am Ying Su, assistant professor at Software Engineering Department, South China University of Technology since Oct 2025. I obtained my PhD degree in IIP(AI) program at HKUST from Sep 2020 to Jan 2025, advised by Prof.Yangqiu Song and Prof.Tong Zhang. I graduated from Tsinghua University with Bachelor’s degree in Electric and Electornic Engineering from Aug 2012 to Jul 2016. Previously, I worked as a machine learning engineer at iFlyTek and Baidu AIG from Jan 2017 to Jun 2020.

Research Interest

Commonsense Knowledge Representation
Knowledge Reasoning
Embodied AI (long-horizon planning, spatial reasoning, multimodality)
AI Ethics

Publiciation

EntailE: Introducing Textual Entailment in Commonsense Knowledge Graph Completion. Arxiv Preprint. Ying Su, Tianqing Fang, Huiru Xiao, Weiqi Wang, Yangqiu Song, Tong Zhang, Lei Chen [paper]
Are LLMs Rigorous Logical Reasoners? Empowering Natural Language Proof Generation by Stepwise Decoding with Contrastive Learning. AACL 2025. Ying Su, Mingwen Liu, Zhijiang Guo [paper] [code]
ActPlan-1K: Benchmarking the Procedural Planning Ability of Visual Language Models in Household Activities. EMNLP 2024. Ying Su, Zhan Ling, Haochen Shi, Jiayang Cheng, Yauwai Yim, Yangqiu Song [paper] [code]
Rethinking the Bounds of LLM Reasoning: Are Multi-Agent Discussions the Key? ACL 2024. Qineng Wang, Zihao Wang, Ying Su, Hanghang Tong, Yangqiu Song [paper]
PipeNet: Question Answering with Semantic Pruning over Knowledge Graphs. StarSem 2024. Ying Su, Jipeng Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Tong Zhang [paper] [code]
MICO: A multi-alternative contrastive learning framework for commonsense knowledge representation. EMNLP 2022. Ying Su, Zihao Wang, Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Tong Zhang [paper] [code]
Multilingual word sense disambiguation with unified sense representation. COLING 2022. Ying Su, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Tong Zhang [paper] [code]
Rare and zero-shot word sense disambiguation using Z-reweighting. ACL 2022. Ying Su, Hongming Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Tong Zhang [paper] [code]

Challenge

Rank 1st in Webvision 2018 Challenge (CVPR 2018 workshop)
Rank 5th in Image Caption Competition (AI Challenger 2017)
Rank 3rd in The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 5 (SLT 2016 workshop)

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer: ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2024, EMNLP 2024, COLING 2025, NAACL 2025.