Runcong Zhao

Senior Research Scientist in LLMs
King's College London

I joined King's College London in February 2023, where I am currently a Senior Research Scientist in Large Language Models, working on the EMBRACE project (Enhanced Maternal and Baby Results with AI-supported Care and Empowerment).

I hold a PhD in Computer Science and an MSc in Data Science from the University of Warwick, supervised by Prof. Yulan He and Dr. Lin Gui. I also hold a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

My research interests include:

Personalised Agents: AI for Health, Education, and Entertainment; Multimodal Enhanced Interaction; Simulation of Human Social Interactions.
LLM Reasoning: Conflict-aware Reasoning; Opinion Mining; Logical Reasoning; Information Extraction.

News

2026.06Paper accepted at ACL 2026: SymbolicThought (System Demonstration track).
2026.05Panel discussion at SLCPS Away Day 2026: Future Scientists and Clinicians — what do students need from us for an AI-enabled world?
2026.05Three papers accepted at ICML 2026.
2026.01Co-organised the AAAI 2026 Workshop on Personalization in the Era of Large Foundation Models.
2025.09Three papers accepted at EMNLP 2025: Concise-SAE, LearnLens, and AERA Chat.
2025.08Joined the Department of Population Health Sciences at King's as Inkfish Senior Research Scientist.
2025.07Invited talk at WAIC 2025 (World Artificial Intelligence Conference).
2025.06Poster at London Tech Week 2025: LearnLens.
2025.05Paper accepted at ICML 2025 as Spotlight: Navigating Solution Spaces in LLMs through Controlled Embedding Exploration.
2024.08Co-organised the 10th SIGHAN Workshop at ACL 2024.
2024.05Two papers accepted at ACL 2024: OpenToM and Complex Relationships in Detective Narratives.
2024.02NarrativePlay accepted at AAAI 2024 and EACL 2024.
2023.10Invited talk at the University of Cambridge on Interactive Narrative Understanding.
2023.05CONE accepted at SIGIR 2023. PANACEA accepted at EACL 2023.
2023.02Joined King's College London as Research Associate.