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Runyang You

1st year Ph.D. Student

PolyU NLP Group

Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University



Runyang YOU is a first year Ph.D. student co-supervised by Prof. Wenjie Li (Maggie) and Prof. Yongqi Li at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She obtained her M.Sc. degree from UCL in 2023, and B.Sc. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2022. Runyang's research interests include natural language processing and recommendation systems.

Education

University College London

M.Sc. Scientific and Data Intensive Computing

* Awarded the Harrie Massey Prize as the top-1 student

2022 - 2023

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

B.Sc. of Telecommunications Engineering

* Top 15%, Received 3 years of scholarships and outstanding student awards

2018 - 2022

Experiences

Large Language Model Machine Learning Engineer

Ping An (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

2024 - 2025

Publications

Parallel Test-Time Scaling for Latent Reasoning Models

Runyang You, Yongqi Li, Meng Liu, Wenjie Wang, Liqiang Nie, Wenjie Li

Submitted to ACL 2026

R2ec: Towards Large Recommender Models with Reasoning

Runyang You, Yongqi Li, Xinyu Lin, Xin Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Wenjie Li, Liqiang Nie

NeurIPS 2025

Towards Harmless Multimodal Assistants with Blind Preference Optimization

Yongqi Li, Lu Yang, Jian Wang, Runyang You, Wenjie Li, Liqiang Nie

ACM MM 2025

Surveys

A Survey on Agent-as-a-Judge

Runyang You, Hongru Cai, Caiqi Zhang, Qiancheng Xu, Meng Liu, Tiezheng Yu, Yongqi Li, Wenjie Li

Submitted to ACL 2026

Workshops

Multimodal Idiom Recognition and Alignment

Runyang You, Xinyue Mei, Mengyuan Zhou

Best Paper Honorable Mention, SemEval (ACL Workshop) 2025