👨‍🎓 About Me

I am a second-year PhD student at King’s College London. I am fortunate to be supervised by Lecturer Lin Gui and Professor Yulan He. My current research focuses on Narrative Understanding and Reasoning in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

I completed both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), under the guidance of Professor Ruifeng Xu. During my master’s studies, I engaged in research focused on Stance Detection and Argument Mining.

Besides research, I have interned at Tencent Music Entertainment for eight months and Shopee for four months, and worked at Baidu for four months as a Natural Language Processing Algorithm Engineer.

📝 Publications

(* Equal contribution, † Corresponding author)

🤔 Reasoning

• ICML-2025 Spotlight Soft Reasoning: Navigating Solution Spaces in Large Language Models through Controlled Embedding Exploration), Qinglin Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Hanqi Yan, Yulan He, Yudong Chen, Lin Gui.
• ACL-2025 Beyond Prompting: An Efficient Embedding Framework for Open-Domain Question Answering, Zhanghao Hu, Hanqi Yan, Qinglin Zhu†, Zhenyi Shen, Yulan He, Lin Gui.
• ACL-2024 Mirror: A Multiple-perspective Self-Reflection Method for Knowledge-rich Reasoning, Hanqi Yan*, Qinglin Zhu* , Xinyu Wang, Lin Gui, Yulan He.
• Under Review Sparse Activation Editing for Reliable Instruction Following in Narratives, Runcong Zhao, Chengyu Cao, Qinglin Zhu, Xiucheng Lv, Shun Shao, Lin Gui, Ruifeng Xu, Yulan He.

📚 Narrative Understanding

• Under Review PLAYER*: Enhancing LLM-based Multi-Agent Communication and Interaction in Murder Mystery Games, Qinglin Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Jinhua Du, Lin Gui, Yulan He.
• ACL-2024 Findings Large Language Models Fall Short: Understanding Complex Relationships in Detective Narratives, Runcong Zhao*, Qinglin Zhu* , Hainiu Xu, Jiazheng Li, Yuxiang Zhou, Yulan He, Lin Gui.

😆 Sentiment Analysis and Stance Detection

• SIGIR-2022 Enhancing Zero-Shot Stance Detection via Targeted Background Knowledge, Qinglin Zhu, Bin Liang, Jingyi Sun, Jiachen Du, Lanjun Zhou, and Ruifeng Xu.
• ACL-2022 JointCL: A Joint Contrastive Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Stance Detection, Bin Liang*, Qinglin Zhu* , Xiang Li, Min Yang, Lin Gui, Yulan He, and Ruifeng Xu.
• CCL-2020 Attention-based Recurrent Network Combined with Financial Lexicon for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification, Qinglin Zhu, Bin Liang, Liuyu Han, Yi Chen, Ruifeng Xu, and Ruibin Mao.
• LREC-2020 Target-based sentiment annotation in Chinese financial news, Chaofa Yuan, Yuhan Liu, Rongdi Yin, Jun Zhang, Qinling Zhu, Ruibin Mao, Ruifeng Xu.

🗣️ Argumentation Mining and Sequence Labeling

• ACL-2022 Have my arguments been replied to? Argument Pair Extraction as Machine Reading Comprehension, Jianzhu Bao, Jingyi Sun, Qinglin Zhu, and Ruifeng Xu.
• NLPCC-2021 A Hierarchical Sequence Labeling Model for Argument Pair Extraction, Jingyi Sun, Qinglin Zhu, Jianzhu Bao, Jipeng Wu, Caihua Yang, Rui Wang, and Ruifeng Xu.
• SemEval-2021 HITSZ-HLT at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Ensemble Sequence Labeling and Span Boundary Detection for Toxic Span Detection, Qinglin Zhu, Zijie Lin, Yice Zhang, Jingyi Sun, Xiang Li, Qihui Lin, Yixue Dang, and Ruifeng Xu.

🏅 Honors and Awards

• 2023.03 Outstanding Master’s Graduate & Outstanding Dissertation for Master’s Degree, HIT (3%)
• 2021.10 National Scholarship (for Graduate Student, 2%)
• 2021.03 NLPCC-2021 Shared Task: Argument Pair Extraction (Top 1)
• 2021.02 SemEval-2021 Task 5 Competition: Toxic Spans Detection (Top 1, Team Leader)
• 2020.06 Outstanding Bachelor’s Graduate & Outstanding Dissertation for Bachelor’s Degree, HIT (3%)
• 2019.10 National Scholarship (for Undergraduate Student, 2%)

📖 Educations

• 2023.10 - now, Ph.D., King’s College London, London, UK.
• 2020.09 - 2023.03, Master, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China.
• 2016.09 - 2020.06, Bachelor, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China.

💻 Works and Internships

• 2025.05 - Present, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China.(Internship)
• 2023.04 - 2023.08, Baidu, Shanghai, China.
• 2022.06 - 2022.09, Shopee, Shanghai, China.(Internship)
• 2021.08 - 2022.04, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, Shenzhen, China.(Internship)

Last Updated:

May 23, 2025